February 17, 2016

Graduate For Más Challenge


Taco Bell Challenge: Make the Promise to graduate and use our games and tools to help you reach your graduation, college and career goals. We even have some great prizes - 

$500 for every school that gets 30% of new students to Make the Promise, 
$1,000 for the regional winners, and 
$10,000 and a celebration event with a celebrity for the national round #2 winning school! 

  1. Advisory students will follow this link, click on “Make the Promise” icon to fill out the promise to graduate. https://getschooled.com/graduate-for-mas
  2. Students that “Make the Promise” will automatically be enrolled in the program and receive access to a variety of content: College Knowledge, Future Focus, Life Skills, Make the Grade, Money Talks, and more.
  3. What’s next? Encourage the students to watch the videos, play the games, take the surveys, and attempt the challenges on their dashboard. There is no set number of activities they must complete, but the more they click on and complete, the higher we go on the leaderboards to possible win prizes and money.
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February 10, 2016

1. Grade Checks!
2. Enjoy Valentine's Day with one or some of the classroom activities below, or create your own:



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February 3, 2016

Hodgepodge of Activities

Digital Citizenship Make Up

Please reference the student list from your grade level leader. This list contains names of students that need to complete signing the Digital Citizenship agreements.  Share this link for students to complete this process:

Missouri Student Survey Make Up Day


Congrats! 1,250 out of 1,742 students completed the Missouri Student Survey on January 20th!  If your advisory still needs to complete the survey take time today to locate the directions from 1/20/2016

Leadership Class will ALSO stop by for a brief announcement 


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January 27, 2016

Advisory Grade Check
How do we support students in owning their learning?

Option #1:
  1. Have students open their PowerSchool on their laptops.
  2. Walk around the room and look at every student's grades or call students up individually with their laptops to show you their grades
  3. Provide encouraging feedback 
  4. If you want to know more about a grade in a specific class ask the student to click on the percent/letter grade in order to see assignment details for the class.
Option #2:
  1. Use Teacher PowerSchool to access student grades (see PDF for PowerSchool support)
Option #3:
  1. Implement your own version of grade checks so as long as you are conferencing with each student

During Advisor-Student Grade Conference....
  1. Share this link http://bit.ly/studylhs with students to explore Study Tips

CAPTURING WHAT WE DO WITH PADLET


  1. POST TO YOUR GRADE LEVEL PADLET WALL BELOW TO SHARE HOW YOU (THE ADVISOR) IMPLEMENT GRADE CHECKS. IDEAS TO SHARE: DO YOU HAVE CLASS COMPETITIONS? DO YOU HAVE STUDENTS TRACK DATA? DO YOU KEEP TRACK OF STUDENT CONCERNS?
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Wednesday - January 20 (Missouri Student Survey)

Missouri Student Survey

  1. Show the following video to explain what this survey is about

  2. Next students will need the following code to access the survey

    		1. Liberty High - 77254
  3. Students will move through the survey at their own pace. Please be available to define words if needed. When the survey questions are complete, students will be redirected to the original Introduction page. The survey is now complete for that student. If another student needs to use the computer to take the survey, they can begin. If not, the browser window can be closed. Please share the following tinyurl for students to now access the survey using the school code above.
    1. http://tinyurl.com/MOStudentSurvey

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January 13, 2016

HARBOR TV SERIES

Prior to Advisory: Advisors will need to create an account to access the Harbor TV Series.  Please use the embedded presentation below for log in directions.


LESSON: JUDGEMENT & HASHTAG CHALLENGE


Today in advisory…

  • Log in to your HarborTV account
  • Click on “The Harbor” pull down menu and click “Latest Episodes”

Class Starter: Ask students…
  • What is judgement?
  • How can social media be attributed to positive or negative judgemental attitudes?

Show: the following Episode titles
  • Season 1 - Episode 1 “Judgement” (3+ minutes)
  • Season 2 - Episode 8 “Matt Soeth” (4+ minutes)

Post Viewing Questions: found in the following hyperlinks or in the images below. Use these questions for a class discussion. Use any format of your choice to discuss the “Post Viewing Questions”
  • whole group discussion
  • inner circle / outer circle
  • inner circle can have one set of questions to discuss while the outer circle remains quiet
  • outer circle can have a different set of questions to discuss while the inner circle remains quiet

Judgement Questions

Additional Questions:
    • What systems do we have in place at LHS to provide support regarding bullying?
      • Sprigeo, teachers, counselors, administration
    • How can LHS do a better job at spreading positivity?

Class Challenge:
  • Task your advisory to...
    • create a hashtag for LHS students to share positive moments or kudos
use THIS LINK to submit the suggested hashtag for your advisory
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JANUARY 6, 2016 (LOCAL SCHOLARSHIPS & RECONNECTING)

SHOW THE FOLLOWING YOUTUBE REGARDING LOCAL SCHOLARSHIPS


LOCAL SCHOLARSHIPS 
(VIDEO HERE WHEN AVAILABLE)


Have time left? Re-connect with students by Norming:
  • Use the headings and guiding questions below for students to write individual responses on post it notes. After answering questions for each heading below, collect the responses and read responses aloud. Record responses either on an electronic document or on paper.  After all responses have been recorded and agreed upon, post the responses in class for all to see.  Refer to these norms throughout the year to help keep your advisory centered and connected.
    • Time
      • What is required of all of us to begin on time?
      • What is required of all of us to end on time?
    • Safety/Respect
      • How will we create a safe environment?
      • How will we establish and maintain respectful relationships?
    • Participation
      • How will we encourage participation?
      • How will we encourage connecting with one another?
    • Listening
      • How will we encourage listening?
      • How will we discourage interrupting?
    • Decision Making
      • How will we making decisions when needed?
      • How will we reach consensus so all voices heard?
      • How will we deal with conflict?
    • Other
      • Are there other norms you feel were not addressed that need added? 
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