Students are settling into the school year, but things are still evolving for their Advisory period.
Advisory is an intervention and enrichment period for students that is set between second and third hours. While some may be pulled to make up work or for reteaching in a core class, others stay behind to work on whatever the designed day’s assignments are.
Students, who aren’t pulled for the day report back to their first hour classes for enrichment.
“I think it’s for kids who need to catch up on work that can’t,” eighth-grader Sam Johnson said.
Johnson isn’t a fan of Advisory because he thinks the period is boring, especially since he has to go back to his first hour.
Advisory is similar to the WIN (What I Need) period students had a couple of years ago. However, instead of any and all teachers pulling students, certain teachers have specified pull days. English pull days are Mondays and Wednesdays. Math pull days are Tuesdays and Thursdays. Science and STEM pull days are Fridays.
Students not pulled by a core teacher get to participate in a daily enrichment. The enrichment days include Exact Path Math on Mondays, Drop Everything and Read on Tuesdays, Character Day on Wednesdays, Exact Path English on Thursdays and teachers’ choice on Fridays.
Johnson said he would be OK with removing Advisory from his schedule, but he doesn’t want the longer classes that would come with it.
Sixth-grader Pyston Bench also doesn’t care much for Advisory.
Bench said the period can be boring for students who do not have anything to do.
The advisory period isn’t his favorite at all because he has to go back to the same hour twice. Bench also thinks Advisory should be around next year for the incoming sixth-graders so they can experience Advisory for themselves.
