An Advisory Programmed for OutcomesErin QuigleyAssistant PrincipalManhattan Business Academy

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.

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 • Roadmap

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.

A Tale of Two Advisory ProgramsBayard 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?

A Tale of Two Advisory ProgramsINEFFECTIVE 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.

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. Improve grades and pass rates.

Support behavior modification plansSupport behavior modification plans

Get kids involved in outside opportunities like College Now, Hudson Sailing, etc..

Get kids involved in outside opportunities like College Now, Hudson Sailing, etc.. Help kids present

their best selves to colleges

Help kids present their best selves to

colleges

Prepare kids for the PSATs and SATs

Prepare kids for the PSATs and SATs

Help kids know what college is all

about.

Help kids know what college is all

about.

Help students develop socially and

emotionally

Help students develop socially and

emotionally

Prepare students to apply to appropriate

collage.

Prepare students to apply to appropriate

collage.

Get students involved in internships

Get students involved in internships

Resolve peer-to-peer and student-teacher

conflicts.

Resolve peer-to-peer and student-teacher

conflicts.

Get kids involved in volunteering.

Get kids involved in volunteering.

Give teachers the opportunity to learn about

and address external factors that impact learning.

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’ real-world skills (balance a

check book.)

Develop students’ ability to empathize.Develop students’

ability to empathize.

Use it to monitor students on field trips, big school events, etc.

Use it to monitor students on field trips, big school events, etc.

Use it to have fun in school.

Use it to have fun in school.

Communicate grade-specific items more

effectively.

Communicate grade-specific items more

effectively.

Get struggling students back on track more

quickly.

Get struggling students back on track more

quickly.

Reduce the number of lates

Reduce the number of lates

Reduce the number of absences

Reduce the number of absences

Get parents more involved in school.Get parents more involved in school.

Use it to make up a credit.

Use it to make up a credit.

Use it to foster competition

Use it to foster competition

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 Outcomes

Our PrioritiesImprove 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.

S.M.A.R.T. Goals

• Specific• Measurable• Attainable• Realistic• Timely

Broad Goal: Improve

Attendance

SMART Goal: Attendance will go from 85% to 90%

by June 2015.

Plan for Rolling it Out

Helpful Resources…

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 • Roadmap

An Advisory Programmed for OutcomesErin QuigleyAssistant PrincipalManhattan Business Academy

ekquigley@gmail.com