Take 10: Fall 2020
Engage Your Students Wherever They Are Phyllis Fagell, a licensed school and clinical counselor and author, suggests advisers do the following to promote mental health and wellness during these trying times: Incorporate time to talk about recent events: racial injustice, protests, COVID-19, students’ quarantine experience, isolation, and other issues. Instill hope by empowering kids to...
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Honor Society Update: Fall 2020
Advisers across the country are entering the school year with a host of unknowns. The typical back-to-school excitement is tempered with concerns over maintaining physical health for yourself and your students, regulations for masks and social distancing, and addressing grief and trauma that students may be experiencing. There may be questions about how your Honor...
Advise, Volume 49 (2020-2021)
The Middle Ground: Fall 2020
Most of us entered 2020 with high hopes, as we often do at the beginning of a new decade. That hope soon dwindled as we opened the year with Australian wildfires that killed a staggering 1 billion animals. It dwindled further when we witnessed increased social injustices—including George Floyd’s death. On top of it all,...
Advise, Volume 49 (2020-2021)
Advise: Fall 2020
Features Remote Possibilities Jim Paterson Empowering Young People to Vote Amid COVID-19 Tej Gokhale Prudential Spirit of Community Awards Annie Tasker Pathway to Financial Success Annie Tasker Columns & Departments From the Director Morning Announcements The Middle Ground NatStuCo Update Honor Society Update Active Voices A Conversation With ... Collaboration Space Take 10
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Collaboration Space: Fall 2020
From the Court to the Classroom Prior to shutdowns due to COVID-19, a member of the Southfield Christian School NHS chapter in Southfield, MI, jumped at the chance to aid youth in his community by assisting his basketball coach. He spent every Saturday morning for a month helping kids develop skills in both basketball and...
Advise, Volume 49 (2020-2021)
Prudential Spirit of Community Awards: Fall 2020
When schools shut their doors in March due to COVID-19, cancellations came with them: proms and playoffs, field trips and fundraisers, concerts and internships. But if you think volunteer projects got called off, then you don’t know Generation Z. Even as their lives were upended, students across the country stepped up this spring to respond...
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From the Director: Fall 2020
Here are some guesses regarding where you may be this season: You are worried about your students, friends, family, and community members. You have been logged into a computer for more hours in the past several months than your entire life. You may have binge-watched one or several dozen Netflix or Hulu shows online. I...
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Remote Possibilities: Fall 2020
One word seemed to describe the sentiment among advisers as the COVID-19 pandemic numbers fluctuated from state to state, the jarring school shutdowns were still recent in everyone’s memory, and the new school year approached: Uncertainty. In various ways—using technology, creativity, and the energy of their students—advisers managed to keep student leaders engaged through the...
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A Conversation With … Tyler Stewart and Kristi West
Each year, the Warren E. Shull Award is presented to a middle level and high school student council adviser who demonstrate exemplary character, leadership, and commitment to young people and their development as student leaders. In 2020, Tyler Stewart, social studies teacher and student council adviser at Berg Middle School in Newton, IA, was named...
Advise, Volume 49 (2020-2021)
Morning Announcements: Fall 2020
Celebrating Councils of Excellence NatStuCo’s National Council of Excellence program recognizes middle level and high school student councils that consistently provide quality leadership activities and service to their schools and communities. Earn Council of Excellence recognition by meeting the 23 basic indicators at the high school level and 17 indicators at the middle level—or go...
Advise, Volume 49 (2020-2021)