Creating an Advisory Period

Maple Hts. High School

By: Bruce Willingham

Project Need

• Building Strong Relationships

• Finish Community Implementation

• Changing Teacher/Student Perceptions

Obstacles

• Teachers’ Union

• High School Administrative Team

• Individual Agendas

Approval

• Board of Education

• Superintendent

• Advisory Committee

• High School Staff

• High School Students

• Board of Education

Implementation

• 2008-2009

–First Semester

–Second Semester

• 2009-2010

–First Semester

–Second Semester

Evaluation

• Committee Meetings• Community/Feedback

Sessions• Administrative Meetings• Walkthroughs• Teacher Survey

Benefits

• Structured Program grounded in service-learning

• Governor’s Proposal

• Better Relationships between staff and students

Final Program

• 99thth Grade: Grade: Learn about and participate in all service learning projects and advisories.

• 1010thth Grade: Grade: Participate in all learning projects and advisories accumulating 10 hours of service learning with advisory and complete sophomore paper.

• 1111thth Grade Grade:: participate in all service learning projects and advisories accumulating 10 hours of service learning with advisory. Student will also work with advisor to plan one whole group advisory project, complete junior paper and present it to the student’s advisory.

• 1212thth Grade Grade:: Participate in all service learning projects and advisories accumulating 10 hours of service learning with advisory and complete a personal service learning project accumulating 10 hours of service credit for graduation.

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• Freshman:Freshman: Introduction to advisory including general service learning projects.–Complete Maple Plan at

the end of the school year.–Each plan placed in

students cumulative file.–Help students pick

community to join.

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• Sophomore:Sophomore: Placement in a community and advisory. Introduction to service learning projects developed around the community theme. Completion of a written paper detailed personal Service Learning lessons learned.– Must be completed prior to

starting Junior project.

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• Junior:Junior: Continuation in advisory. Completion of a written paper and presentation to advisory group detailing lessons learned from planning a whole group advisory project.

• Must be completed prior to starting Senior project.

• Senior:Senior: Continuation of advisory. Service learning Senior Project done throughout the year. Senior presentation of project and binder during the last 20 days of school presented to the community staff. The presentation will include a written summary of the project and will connect the students whole high school experience with service with service learning.

• Presentation must be completed in order to graduate from Maple Hts. High School.

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