Erin Quigley Assistant Principal Manhattan Business Academy Todays Agenda Look at examples of what works and what doesnt work Come up with prioritized outcomes of your Advisory program ID: 624412
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An Advisory Programmed for Outcomes
Erin Quigley
Assistant Principal
Manhattan Business AcademySlide2
Today’s Agenda
Look at examples of what works (and what doesn’t work).
Come up with prioritized outcomes of your Advisory program.
Plan with the end in sight: make a roadmap for this coming year to achieve those outcomes.Slide3
Today’s
Outcomes
Today you’ll leave with…
Advisory Vision.
Outcomes that indicate your vision was achieved.
Highest
priority needs
Buy-in from
stakeholders
Impact
SMART
:
Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic, Timely
Organizational
structures
RoadmapSlide4
Advisory is…
A program where groups of students meet regularly with an adult in order to receive more individualized social and emotional support. By being a part of this, they will be more successful in and out of school.Slide5
A Tale of Two Advisory Programs
Bayard Rustin High School
What might you observe in an
INEFFECTIVE
Advisory Program?
Manhattan Business Academy
What might you observe in an
EFFECTIVE
Advisory
Program?
Starring…
What May Have Contributed to Its
Demise?
What May Have Contributed to Its Success?Slide6
A Tale of Two Advisory Programs
INEFFECTIVE
EFFECTIVE
No one describes its purpose in the same way.
Organizational structures are arbitrary.
“We have Advisory because we’re supposed to have it.”
Every staff members describe its purpose in similar ways.
Organizational structures focus on purpose.
Agreed-upon indicators of its success.
It functions like exercise, sleep, therapy or a computer program:
makes every initiative work better
.
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Our Advisory program is a tool that helps our school achieve more. We want to use our Advisory program to do the following better.
Improve grades and pass rates.
Support behavior modification plans
Get kids involved in outside opportunities like College Now, Hudson Sailing, etc..
Help kids present their best selves to colleges
Prepare kids for the PSATs and SATs
Help kids know what college is all about.
Help students develop socially and emotionally
Prepare students to apply to appropriate collage.
Get students involved in internships
Resolve peer-to-peer and student-teacher conflicts.
Get kids involved in volunteering.
Give teachers the opportunity to learn about and address external factors that impact learning.
Develop students’ real-world skills (balance a check book.)
Develop students’ ability to empathize.
Use it to monitor students on field trips, big school events, etc.
Use it to have fun in school.
Communicate grade-specific items more effectively.
Get struggling students back on track more quickly.
Reduce the number of
lates
Reduce the number of absences
Get parents more involved in school.
Use it to make up a credit.
Use it to foster competitionSlide8
Represent
the highest priority needs in your particular school.
Would
be embraced by all stakeholders—teachers, parents, students, network leaders, the superintendent,
etc.Would, if achieved, positively impact many other aspects of your school.
Could be attached to SMART goals.
Prioritizing
Advisory OutcomesSlide9
Our Priorities
Improve attendance rate
Reduce number of
lates
Put chronic LTAs on path to improvement
Improve grades and pass rates.
Get struggling students back on track more quickly.
Get “middle” kids to get straight
Bs
and As
Help students develop socially and emotionally
Resolve peer-to-peer and student-teacher conflicts.
Support behavior modification
plans
Develop
students’ ability to empathize.
Put kids on a path to college:
Prepare students to apply to appropriate collage.
Help kids know what college is all about.
Develop students’ real-world skills (balance a check book.)
Get parents more involved in school.
Communicate grade-specific items more
effectively
.Slide10
S.M.A.R.T.
Goals
S
pecific
M
easurable
A
ttainable
R
ealistic
T
imely
Broad Goal: Improve Attendance
SMART
Goal
: Attendance will go from 85% to 90% by June 2015.Slide11Slide12Slide13
Plan for Rolling it OutSlide14
Helpful Resources…Slide15
Today’s
Outcomes
Today you’ll leave with…
Advisory Vision.
Outcomes that indicate your vision was achieved.
Highest
priority needs
Buy-in from
stakeholders
Impact
SMART
:
Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic, TimelyOrganizational structures RoadmapSlide16
An Advisory Programmed for Outcomes
Erin Quigley
Assistant Principal
Manhattan Business
Academy
ekquigley@gmail.com