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Recommended Readings

How to Design an Advisory System for a Secondary School
Mark Goldberg
Mark Goldberg's book offers a glimpse into the design and inner workings of a high school advisory.

Service Learning: Student's Guide and Journal
Robert Schoenfeld
The Service-Learning Student's Guide & Journal is one way to build community and trust in your advisory. If your advisory is beginning a service-learning project, the guide is a way to bring focus to the work and give students a permanent record of their project.

Career Choices
Academic Innovations
The Career Choices guide and accompanying workbook prompt thoughtful discussion, relationship building, and personal growth, and can be a vehicle for moving into service learning projects, advisory trips, and internships. Pat Marabella, used the curriculum to infused field trips, community service, internships, and guest speakers into a summer youth program.

The Power of Advisories: Changing Systems to Personalize Learning
The Education Alliance at Brown University
The Power of Advisories helps school teams develop ways to introduce an adult advocate into the life of every student to help guide student planning, learning, and assessment. It is designed to be interactive and guides workshop participants through five key elements of successful advisories. The Power of Advisories is available to download in its entirety from the Alliance for Education website.

Student Advisories in Grades 5-12: A Facilitator's Guide
Susan MacLaury, Kean University (2002)
Christoper-Gordon Publishers

MacLaury de-mystifies much of the art of advisory facilitation by outlining five stages of group development, devoting a chapter to each. What to look for, sample activities and the role of the advisor at each stage are presented. The Guide is sprinkled with realistic before-and-after stories and with testimonies of various school staff members, who implemented advisories in their schools.

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