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Advisory Lessons

Overview

Information for Staff

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Strategic Plan: Learning for All

Our learners are engaged in authentic, challenging, and relevant learning experiences, becoming lifelong contributors and leaders in our dynamic and diverse society.

VISION

Working together as a team, we will end the predictive value of race, class, gender, and special capacities for our children’s success through high-quality teaching and learning for all. We seek to build relationships with families and communities to ensure that every student succeeds.

We will know every student.

MISSION

Equity
Excellence
Family and Community
Wellness

VALUES

GOALS

Thriving Students

Equitable, Transformative Resources

Affirming and Empowering Communities

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Purpose of MS Advisory

The purpose of the advisory curriculum is to support the whole child by building skills that empower students to fulfill their highest potential as collaborative, thoughtful, caring, and successful individuals and contributors to their school and larger communities.

Through advisory, students will engage in intentional learning experiences that allow them to:

gain awareness of theirs and others’ identities, interests, strengths, passions, and areas of growth;
become more aware of issues that are impacting their communities;
affirm their own and others’ identities, interests, strengths, passions, and areas of growth;
and exercise their agency to acquire the skills and knowledge necessary to achieve their individual goals and improve their communities.

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Advisory Goals

To ensure that each student is known well at school by at least one adult who is that student’s advocate (advisor);
To guarantee that every student belongs to a peer group;
To help every student find ways of being successful within the academic and social options the school provides;
To provide a structure for students to examine their developing identities as well as learn about those different from them;
To support students in finding their voice and listening to the voices of others;
To develop as citizens who make authentic contributions to improve their school community, larger community, and society;
To develop safe and ethical digital citizens;
To enjoy learning.

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We will know every student.

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MIDDLE SCHOOL ADVISORY LESSON PROGRESSION

Developing lifelong contributors and leaders in our dynamic and diverse society.

6th

Understanding Self �and Others

7th

Relating Self

to Others

8th

Relating Self to Community

Digital Citizenship�
Pathway Explorations

Autoethnography and Journey Boxes�

Digital Citizenship

Pathway Explorations�
Exploring Narratives�
Introduction to Action Research

Digital Citizenship�
Pathway Explorations�
YPAR (Youth Participatory Action Research)

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6th Grade	7th Grade	8th Grade
Digital Citizenship 7 lessons	Digital Citizenship 7 lessons	Digital Citizenship 7 lessons

Identity 12 lessons	Identity 9 lessons	Identity 9 lessons


	Pathway Explorations 10 lessons	Pathway Explorations 10 lessons
Journey Box 6 lessons

Pathway Explorations 10 lessons
	Introduction to Action Research 9 lessons	Introduction to Action Research 9 lessons

MIDDLE SCHOOL ADVISORY STRANDS

Launch Year 2022 - 2023

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6th Grade	7th Grade	8th Grade
Digital Citizenship 7 lessons	Digital Citizenship 7 lessons	Digital Citizenship 7 lessons

Identity 12 lessons	Identity 9 lessons	Pathway Explorations 10 lessons


	Pathway Explorations 10 lessons
Journey Box 6 lessons		PBL (Project-Problem-Passion Based Learning) 18 lessons

Pathway Explorations 10 lessons
	Introduction to Action Research 9 lessons

MIDDLE SCHOOL ADVISORY STRANDS

Fall 2023 - Forward

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Additional Information: 6th Grade

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6th Identity and Journey Box	Major Understandings	Skills	Products
6th Identity and Journey Box	All people have identities and culture. Knowing about one’s own culture and identities helps a person make sense of and develop pride in who they are. Learning about the identities and culture of other people helps to build empathy. All people have agency to change society for the better.	Develop positive social identities. Express pride, confidence, and healthy self-esteem. Engage respectfully with all people.	Autoethnography Book: Students will understand themselves through interviews of very important people (VIPs) in their lives and create and present an autoethnography book about who they are. Journey Box: Students will research and create a journey box about a contemporary issue tied to unfairness based on identity by tracing the issue from its historical roots to the present.

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6th Pathway Exploration	Major Understandings	Skills	Products
6th Pathway Exploration	All people have assets, skills, interests, and talents. Knowing about one’s own identity and assets helps them make sense of and develop pride in who they are.	Identify personal assets. Identify interests. Identify values. Relate your skills, interests, talents, and values to a career.	Students will create a personalized college and career profile, including discovery and identification of: Personal strengths, interests, and talents. Pathways aligned with their personality. Careers that match their hobbies and interests. Career fields related to their skills and aptitudes.

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6th Digital Citizenship	Major Understandings	Skills	Products
6th Digital Citizenship	Who I am online can appear differently from who I am in the real world. Keeping safe and being ethical online is physical, emotional, and intellectual. Personal information should be shared in safe and appropriate ways. Attribution protects both the student and the creator. Actions in the digital world can have good and bad permanent effects in the real world.	Predict the effect of a choice/digital action. Attribute credit to authors and creators. Protect personal information. Discern what is appropriate to share online. Recognize and report inappropriate, illegal, or dangerous behavior online. Share their personal data with appropriate individuals. Create and keep private a secure password for their digital accounts.	Students will create a personalized plan to achieve a better media balance. Students will collect and manage artifacts of their digital footprint. Students will implement various data protection and data sharing strategies with their online accounts. Students will cultivate de-escalation strategies for difficult situations online. Students will cite their sources in various projects.

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Additional Information:

7th Grade

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7th Identity and Introduction to Action Research	Major Understandings	Skills	Products
7th Identity and Introduction to Action Research	First-person narratives have the power to create empathy and challenge stereotypes. All people have agency to change society for the better.	See individuals as complex and multifaceted participants in cultures and communities. Build empathy and appreciate others’ lived experiences through the study of first-person narratives. Practice conducting research around community issues.	Challenging Single Stories: Students will listen to and read narratives from the points of view of people who are similar and different from themselves.� Foundations of Action Research: Students will practice conducting research around community issues tied to unfairness based on identity in order to draw conclusions and propose solutions.

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7th Pathway Exploration	Major Understandings	Skills	Products
7th Pathway Exploration	All people have agency to make choices about their lives. There is more than one “right” choice in life. We can design plans that can help us achieve the goals we imagine for ourselves.	Analyze options in life (i.e. pathways toward college and career). Evaluate their interest in a pathway.	Students will update a personalized college and career profile, including discovery and identification of Personal strengths, interests, and talents. Careers that match their hobbies, interests, skills and aptitudes. Short and long term goals

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7th Digital Citizenship	Major Understandings	Skills	Products
7th Digital Citizenship	When information is shared, it is no longer controlled by the owner. Ideas have worth or value. Attribution protects both the student and the creator. Actions in the digital world can have good and bad permanent effects in the real world.	Cultivate & manage a healthy and safe digital footprint. Make choices online that represent who they are. Act as an upstander when witness to bullying. Attribute credit to authors and creators. Be safe and responsible in sharing their personal data online.	Students will create a set of personal guidelines for promoting healthy media use. Students will implement various data protection and data sharing strategies with their online accounts. Students will create an analysis of the positive and negative aspects of their digital footprint. Students will identify ways of being an upstander and apply them to various cyberbullying scenarios. Students will demonstrate principles of fair use by remixing their own work.

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