Educators for Social Responsibility (ESR) - Cambridge, Massachusetts

ESR Can Help You Reach and Engage All Learners

ESR — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:29:02 +0000

At ESR we’ve worked with thousands of middle and high school educators who are taking steps to build more personalized schools and classrooms. Our Reaching and Engaging All Learners approach can help secondary schools large and small achieve change that put engaging, student-centered learning and safe, respectful, and productive environments at the heart of their reforms.

Guided Discipline Works!

ESR — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:22:50 +0000

A NYC high school teacher recently wrote to us, “I took your Guided Discipline workshop in Manhattan in April 2010. I’ve been meaning to get in contact with you regarding the success I’ve been having in all my science classes – 9th through 11th grades. With your simple techniques, and my consistent use of Getting Classroom Management RIGHT and Making Learning REAL, I don’t have any classroom management concerns with my two freshman classes. I make sure the students are held accountable for their lateness, missing work, etc. I’ve used the rights and responsibilities technique with my sophomores and juniors which made their endless chatter go away. I also made a wager for all to complete their homework assignments prior to the end of the second marking period. It worked!”

Advisory Programs Help Improve Academic Performance and Postsecondary Planning

ESR — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:20:41 +0000

The benefits of implementing school-wide advisory programs are well documented. Advisory programs can play a critical role in a school’s overall academic and student support services plan. Advisories are a primary way to create a more personalized learning environment where all students are well known by at least one adult. Moreover, advisory provides a structure and a set of practices for monitoring and supporting students’ academic progress and college and career readiness throughout their time in high school. To learn more, see our high school advisory page and our middle school advisory page.

To hear what students and educators in Austin, TX have to say about advisory in their schools, click here.

New DVDs and Professional Development Guides to Support Student Advisory

Zayko — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 16:34:42 +0000

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.

Click here for more information and to order Getting Advisory Right: Tools for Supporting Effective Advisories.

2012-2013 ESR Resource Catalog

ESR — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 15:55:16 +0000

Download the new ESR Resource Catalog here! If you would like to be added to the mailing list for next year’s catalog, please email your postal address to dwolk@esrnational.org.

2012-2013 Resource Catalog (PDF)