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Not Your Everyday Seminar

Not Your Everyday Seminar

by Amanda Fisher |

It is safe to say that Liberty has had its share of change. In the past year, there have been lanyards, open parking, moving seminars, late start Tuesdays, no seniors at the first day of school and finally, advisory. For this 2011-2012 school year, LHS will be implementing a new program that will benefit students academically and emotionally.

“Advisory is a student advocacy program designed to give all students a connection to LHS. Relationship building is ideally the main goal of advisory.” EIP Coordinator Tara Harvey said.

Every Wednesday and Thursday between 9:25 and 9:50, students will go to their advisory classrooms, which will remain the same throughout the whole year. For underclassmen, this teacher will be their advisory teacher for the rest of their high school career.

Though this program is closely related to seminars that used to be scheduled every Tuesday following a late start Monday, this program will be much more than a study hall.

“Advisory teachers will have topics that include academic development, personal support, and post secondary planning lessons.” Harvey said.

According to Lardy Dieringer of The Advisory Guide, research shows that if schools strive to “create safe, supportive, respectful learning environments, personalize young people’s learning experience, help them develop social and emotional competencies, and provide opportunities to practice these skills, they will grow more attached to school, avoid risky behavior, and achieve more academic success.”

Being that advisory has been around since 1984, many schools have adopted this program. However, all schools differ on how their advisory is managed.

“Our advisory program is based on three pillars: accountability, building relationships, and creating community,” Harvey said.

All in all, this program is much more than just a place to sit and stare at a white board for 20 minutes. This program plans to give a sense of community, promote healthy student development, support academic success, and provide multiple opportunities that will ultimately lead to healthy development and academic success.

“Students need to first feel safe (both physically and psychologically), feel like they belong, feel respected, and feel cared about in order to be successful in school.” Dieringer said.

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