Books & Articles on effective advisory programs
The Advisory Guide:
Designing and Implementing Effective Advisory Programs in Secondary Schools
Rachel A. Poliner & Carol Miller Lieber
Educators for Social Responsibility, Cambridge, MA 2004
The Advisory Guide supports middle and high school leaders to create advisory groups tailored to their school. It includes activities, guidance for designing schedules, grouping, professional development, assessment, internal marketing, and managing change.
“Designing Advisories for Resilience”
Educational Leadership, Sept 2013, p50
“Creating Advisories: A Few Notes from the Field”
offering common pitfalls & suggestions about implementation,
Rachel Poliner & Carol Miller Lieber, Horace, Coalition of Essential Schools, http://www.essentialschools.org/resources/283
Featured in:
“An Advisory Advantage,”
Education Week, March 2007
“Getting Advisory Right,”
Harvard Education Letter, Feb 2007
Based in years of working with real classrooms resulting in material that works...
Leadership, Change, Faculty Culture
Courses to coaching, all forms of PD...
Leading through Conflict & Change Institute - Independent School Assoc of the Central States (ISACS), California charter school leadership institutes, varied districts
Collegial Culture Institute - ISACS, districts
Join Rachel at MIAA/MSSAA
Teen Mental Health Summit for:
“Everyday Classroom Practices that
Foster Resilience”
National conferences
ASCD 2014: “Fostering Resiliency through Advisory: For Students and Adults”
ASCD 2014: “Shaping Adult Cultures to Optimize Student Learning”
Working with school leaders to present their accomplishments...
ASCD 2011: “Fostering Resiliency in Secondary Classrooms”
ASCD 2010: “Advisory Implementation: Moving from Aspiration to Action”
American School Counselor Association 2010: “Involving All Adults to Support All Students”
ASCD 2005: “Social & Emotional Learning that Really Changes Behavior”
Additional presentations:
Advisory Clinics - ASCD, Assoc. for Middle Level Education, Coalition of Essential Schools
Conflict Resolution / Dialogue / SEL in the Middle School / High School / and through Elementary Literacy - varied conferences
See other books by Rachel Poliner from
Educators for Social Responsibility:
Dialogue: Turning Controversy into Community, with Jeffrey Benson
The Power of Numbers: A Teachers’ Guide to Mathematics in a Social Studies Context, with Fred Gross & Patrick Morton
Written with administrators and teachers to tell their schools’ and districts’ stories...
“Learning Throughout the Day,” Educational Leadership, ASCD, Sept 2005, with district leaders George Johnson & Susan Bonaiuto, on district-wide social & emotional learning.
“Apology of Action & Literacy: Skills that Grow Together,” Responsive Classroom Newsletter, 2005, with elementary teachers Sarah Fillion, Lisa Garsh, Jane Shilalie, Kristen Vincent, on infusing social & emotional learning into the literacy curriculum.
Social & emotional learning