September

PROPOSED ADVISORY MASTER SCHEDULE SEPTEMBER ORIENTATION SCHOOL OPENS
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 * GRADE TEAMING -> ** || 1

BOOKKEEPING ITEMS/ HANDBOOK || 2 ICEBREAKER

Pair Interview Take what you need….

websites/icebreaker || 3 CHECK IN/ PROBLEM SOLVING What is going well? Problems? Who to see/ what to do…next steps || 4 || || 8 || 9 PRESIDENT OBAMA SPEECH || 10 PRESIDENT OBAMA SPEECH FOLLOW UP ACTIVITIES
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GOAL SETTING FOR SEMESTER, YEAR, LONG TERM, FOR ACADEMICS, CAREER, OTHER ASPECTS OF LIFE || 11 // ADD-DROP ENDS // || || 15 || 16
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 * Just a reminder that Advisory will begin today with a four minute video on Tolerance broadcast via your TV: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vsg6IQogZFU

Please turn on your TVs so that students can watch this together, including the U2 soundtrack.

After the video plays, students from the Civil Rights Team will make a short announcement that their first meeting is "Today in Ms. Triano's room at 2:05." The meeting will include a visit from the Center for the Prevention of Hate Crimes.

We would greatly appreciate if you could follow up the video by leading a discussion on any/all of these subjects:
 * impressions of the video
 * Tolerance at GHS
 * your impression of the results of last year's data from the Center for the Prevention of Hate Crimes
 * your expectation for student behavior within the GHS community
 * what makes people tolerant/intolerant
 * other related topics

Need more ideas? Teaching Tolerance maintains an amazing website that includes teaching materials: http://www.tolerance.org/activities?keys=&level%5B%5D=6

Thanks in advance for your support.

Jonathan R. Werner

CIVIL RIGHTS TEAM PRESENTATION** TONE” **
 * (TV) “SETTING THE

|| 17 ELECTIONS**
 * GRADE 9 - CLASS OFFICER

GOAL SETTING FOR SEMESTER, YEAR, LONG TERM, FOR ACADEMICS, CAREER, OTHER ASPECTS OF LIFE (if not done on 9/10) || 18 || || 22 || 23 SCHOOL COUNCIL
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Define Give some history Election Process

see email sent 9/22 for guidance || 24 //MISSION STATEMENT// //4 CORNERS ACTIVITY// || 25 || || 29 || 30 -ACADEMIC CHECK IN – -Progress reports (FOLLOW UP w/AM VOC STUDENTS) -BDAY CELEB -Conference Forms -Checklist of Suggestions for improvement || || ||
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 * September 2**

__Take What You Need Ice Breaker__: The objective is to get students to share information about themselves. The advisor will pass around a roll of toilet paper, bag of candy, or other items and instruct students to "Take What They Need." For each sheet of paper or piece of candy students will have to share a piece of information about themselves.

__Interview Ice Breaker__: This ice breaker is most appropriate for Freshmen. In pairs students will interview each other. Questions will be provided. After the interview one student will introduce the other by reading the answers to the interview questions.

September 3
Check In with a focus on material needs and schedules. Help students learn to solve their problems (scheduling, etc) and connect them with appropriate resources. With 9th and 10th graders we could discuss treatment and language that they don't need to tolerate and what to do if they are being treated poorly.

September 9
Advisors can ask students create an activities poster to promote getting involved in school activities. This could take several forms. Students might create a poster listing all school activities. Alternately, groups of students could create a poster for a club or organization that they are particularly interested in. It would be up to the discretion of the advisor to determine groups and the number of posters that would be created.

September 10
__9th and 10th:__ To the MPAC for student presentations on clubs and activities. Students can learn advisor names, meeting times and places, and what the club is all about.

__11th and 12th:__ Juniors and Seniors who are not presenting in the MPAC might view a television presentation from Civil Rights Team on setting the tone.

ALL advisor groups should conduct a discussion of the Mission Statement on this day. The following four corners activity is one good way to do this. The goal of this day is to get kids familiar with and talking about the mission statement -- hopefully as a precursor of future discussions. It is also a way for advisors to get a sense of students' GHS experience.**

Begin by having students fill out the document posted below:



The document asks students to consider how well we are doing right now at meeting each part of our mission statement.

AFTER students have filled out the paper, begin the four corners activity: Designate each corner of your room as the "home" of one of the possible opinions on the paper: Strongly Agree, Agree, Disagree, and Strongly Disagree

Address one question at a time -- have students get up and go the corner of the room that represents their opinion on each statement. Ask students from each corner (sometimes they'll all be in one,) to explain their opinion, respond to one another.

September 23
Introduce school council -- discuss current issues. Information will follow.

September 24
MLTI day or free day

September 30
Academic check in day: Distribute progress reports

This is a good time to check if any of your advisees need to be referred to RTI. If someone is struggling in several classes, you could write a quick e-mail to his or her teachers asking for an update. Those updates can be cut and pasted into a word document, and sent to the RTI team as a referral. You can also set up a folder in FirstClass for a particular students' teachers if you suspect you may need to be in regular contact. Most special education teachers, and especially Kate Riker, can help you do this.

This is also a good time to talk with the student about support options: tutoring, planner use, guidance,

For a particularly hesitant student, you could offer to sit down with them and a given teacher to talk about a plan for improvement. If you are comfortable doing so, checking in with the advisee's parents is also a good idea.

October 1
The purpose of this day is to help students figure out some ways to approach teachers for help.

Etiquette in using e-mail to ask for help Arrange place and time -- explain that you have some concerns about your work.