Advisory Systems: Creating & Maintaining a Meaningful Program
Pingry School, Short Hills Campus, New Jersey
Friday, November 4th, 3:30-9pm &
Saturday, November 5th, 8:30am - 4pm
Please note: due to a power outage at the Martinsville Campus, the event will now be held at Pingry School's Short Hills Campus. For directions, please visit the Pingry website here.
Please contact CSEE with any questions: info (at) csee (dot) org
The connections that advisors make with students are often the key to student success. How can we make this relationship meaningful, active, and stimulating for the students? How can we use advisory time to reinforce the larger mission of the school?
Popular presenters Barb Ackerman and Joan Mudge lead this engaging workshop to assist schools in their efforts to create or fine-tune a successful advisory program. This workshop will cover all aspects of the advisory program, idea sharing and trouble shooting with colleagues, sample activities, and will culminate in participants creating their own action plan for immediate and long-range goals. The "advisory period" will also be put into the broader context of a school's mission for social, moral and academic development, and will offer tools to translate this mission into day-to-day advisory activities. Advisors will leave with materials, insights, and methods to be successful.
This two-day workshop will explore:
- How and why to fit time for advising into busy school days and a full school calendar
- The importance of the advisor/advisee relationship
- How to prepare advisors to fulfill their significant role in students' lives
- How to help resistant advisors to feel more comfortable and to buy into the advising program
- How an active advising program can help a school to achieve its stated mission
Participants can expect to come away with:
- Knowledge of advising practices and procedures at a variety of schools from across the country
- Strategies for working with individual advisees
- Ideas for school-wide advising events
- A free CSEE Advisory Handbook and other resources
- An action plan consisting of immediate improvements as well as long-range goals
Advisors and advisory coordinators from all grade levels are invited to attend. Participants are encouraged to bring relevant curricula and activities to share with others.
About the Presenters
Barbara Dixon Ackerman is co-author of CSEE's Need a Hand with Advising? Here's a Handbook! and has led CSEE's Advisory Workshop for several years. She teaches Upper School English at Garrison Forest School, where she reinvented the advisory program, and is currently an academic coach.
Joan Mudge has taught at Garrison Forest School for nearly 40 years in several capacities: as a history teacher, advisor, College Counselor, and Dean of Faculty. This is her 4th year co-facilitating this workshop with Barb Ackerman.
What participants are saying about the Advisory Workshop:
"Fabulous, innovative ideas!"
"I gathered useful resources, and had time to think about the value of various structures."
"After an eight-year absence, my return to the conference was both exciting and productive. This conference is certainly important to strengthen an advisory program."
"Talking, brainstorming, and sharing ideas. This conference was very useful, and I'm looking forward to implementing these ideas."
"The organization, exceptional planning. This conference examined all parts of advisory programs."
"The modeling of activities and exercises was most valuable. Being given time to talk with others on ideas and different models and varieties of programs."
Average participant rating for the 2010 event: 4.6 out of 5 (92%)
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