Resource Spotlight

Getting Advisory Right: Tools for Supporting Effective Advisories is an essential resource to provide “just-in-time” professional development for teachers in schools that are committed to improving and sustaining high-quality student advisory programs.  Each segment includes scripted professional development guides, videos of real advisories in action that align with the PD guides, an annotated guide of facilitation tips and strategies for advisory, sample advisory session plans, activities, handouts, and more.

The 4-disc set includes all four segments – a great value at more than $100 off buying individually! Click here for more information and to order Getting Advisory Right: Tools for Supporting Effective Advisories.

Getting Advisory Right: Tools for Supporting Effective Advisories
Segment 1: Creating Community

Creating Community focuses on the building blocks for creating an advisory group using Gatherings to bring the group together, using Facilitation to build and strengthen advisor skills for leading the group, and using Rituals and Routines to establish the group’s sense of identity, trust, and cohesiveness.

Getting Advisory Right: Tools for Supporting Effective Advisories
Segment 2: Academic Advisement

Academic Advisement introduces proven methods to use advisory to increase student achievement using the highly effective Guided Work Period, engaging in Whole Group Academic Conferencing and One-to-One Conferencing to continually support students’ academic success and progress in a systematic, ongoing way.

Getting Advisory Right: Tools for Supporting Effective Advisories
Segment 3: Postsecondary Support

Postsecondary Support provides critical information on how to use advisory to create a college-going culture by identifying Roadblocks and Promising Practices to postsecondary readiness, activities to help students realize that College Is Possible for everyone, and how the Power of Peers creates a web of support to help students go on to a rewarding postsecondary experience.

Getting Advisory Right: Tools for Supporting Effective Advisories
Segment 4: Social and Emotional Learning

Social and Emotional Learning demonstrates how advisory can support students personal growth and development with Building Skills for Collaboration and Success, and helps students learn how to unleash their brain power in Understanding Effort and Learning, as well as how to develop critical conflict resolution skills necessary to navigate school with Managing Emotions to Support Learning and Achievement.

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Using ESR’s Connected & Respected, Lessons from the Resolving Conflict Creatively Program (Volume 1 for K-2 or Volume 2 for 3-5) in your classroom can help students develop the skills to reduce violence and prejudice, form caring relationships, and build healthy lives.

The lessons are drawn from our research-proven Resolving Conflict Creatively Program. Each of the six samples below is set up as a PDF for downloading and printing.

For Kindergarteners, this lesson provides expressive ways for young students to get to know each other’s similarities and differences: Alike and Different

First graders learn how to support their classmates and friends in this lesson: Helping Others and Standing Up to Bullying

This lesson for second grade introduces the life-long skill of active listening by having students conduct an interview using paraphrasing and clarifying questions: Active Listening

Third graders will explore the concept of win-win in this lesson, using critical thinking and empathy: Win-Win Solutions

In this lesson, fourth graders develop ideas about how to manage angry feelings: Exploring Anger

Fifth graders explore the concept of escalation and examine strategies to de-escalate conflict in this lesson: Conflict Escalation

These lessons are drawn from our curriculum, Connected and Respected: Lessons from the Resolving Conflict Creatively Program. To learn more about the Resolving Conflict Creatively Program, please visit this page.

Book by Book: An Annotated Guide to Young People’s Literature with Peacemaking and Conflict Resolution Themes is a valuable resource for librarians, teachers, guidance counselors, and parents to find books to complement the standard language arts curriculum for teaching important peacemaking and social and emotional learning concepts.  Written by a veteran peace educator, Book by Book leads adults to children’s literature that will help students explore themes related to conflict and its resolution, social justice, and appreciation for diversity.

About the author
Carol Spiegel received a minor in Community Violence Prevention and spent eight years as a Conflict Resolution Educator, teaching and helping to develop peacemaking and conflict resolution programs in seven St. Paul and Minneapolis schools.  She was also a Volunteer Mediator for Washington County Department of Court Services.

Carol wrote the “Contributing to Literature” section for each lesson in both volumes of ESR’s Connected and Respected by Jane Harrison and Ken Breeding.  She also contributed the additional books in ESR’s Links to Literature by Rosemary Lonberger and Jane Harrison.

Carol is currently in leadership in her religious community, the Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

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