Spring Advisory Conferences are a time for students to tell their story in the presence of supportive adults with the help of some guiding questions.
Spring Advisory Conferences
Conferences will take place on the afternoons of April 4th and 5th. There will be classes in the morning and you can find the schedule here.
The conferences will:
Be 20 minutes long
Meetings will take place in person (unless a Zoom meeting is requested by the family)
Attended by (at minimum) the student, the advisory teacher, and a parent/guardian. Others are welcome to attend, but not necessary.
Follow the same general format in each grade
Conference Format
Conferences should be conversational. The lead advisors have brainstormed the major questions that we would like each grade to focus on, with optional follow-up questions if needed (a.k.a. your students are answering your questions without much depth).
For 9th-11th grade students these guiding questions will focus on aspects of their daily lives at school, some reflections on the past, and some forecasting ahead to the future. For 12th grade students, these conferences might feel more like an exit interview, while still having many of the elements from the younger grades.
At the beginning of the conference, please have everyone introduce themselves, then begin. You can decide as a group how you all would like this conversation to flow (should people interject? stay silent until the end and then add in comments? etc.).
Timeline:
Week of March 4/11: Advisors and students preview conference material and schedule conference times.
Sometime the week of the 18th: School shares Spring Advisory Conference information with students and families
Weeks of March 11th +: Students prepare for conferences and advisors confirm scheduling.
Week of April 1: Final preparations in advisory and afternoon conferences on Thursday, 4/4 and Friday, 4/5.