August 29th

Check in with Freshman. Need to look at your students grades and any issues with zeros. Being early in the semester please head off any problems before they become bigger. Might be a time to sign the kids up for Liberty Hour for the teachers they have a zero in. Also while talking about grades see how the first weeks went at the high school.

Also could check their planners to see if they are using them and/or talk to them about organizing it.

Let me know if you have any questions.

April 26th

If any student did not complete the two surveys from yesterday they must complete them both today. Click on yesterday and follow the instructions.



Today will be the last day of advisory if you would like to have a party with your seniors.

April 25th

Students need to complete the Final Senior Transcript and Scholarship Survey. Here is PowerPoint please look at this and go over it with your advisories. This is mandatory for the seniors to fill out before graduation. Make sure they complete this. If they don't they will be called down to the office to finish so please don't add more work for the counselors to do during graduation. The PowerPoint does a very good job of explaining what the kids need to do. To get to the Family Connections students need to go to the Liberty High School website, then click on counseling, then scroll down and on the right hand side they will see the link to Family Connections.

Senior Survey PowerPoint

https://docs.google.com/document/d/16cF7k4kEzxLcez1c4QLNYUv4JhIFReWgwzVtD_guTzM/edit?usp=sharing Also please have the students take this Advisory survey as well. It is very short.

Advisory Survey

April 24th

Seniors will meet in their advisory take role and then accompany them to the fieldhouse for the senior graduation meeting with Dr. Adams.

April 23rd

Students will have a time to study for EOC or catch up on work.

April 11th

We will not have advisory today because we want to honor time to study for the upcoming EOC. Please note that the EOC schedule has been sent out and we will have advisory Monday-Thursday. Monday and Wednesday will be study times and Tuesday and Thursday will have advisory lessons.
Let me know if you have any questions.

March 21

TEACH Kansas City: Student Survey Instructions


Along with 20 other local districts and teacher preparation programs, Liberty Public Schools (LPS) is a founding partner of the recently launched TEACH Kansas City initiative.  This initiative’s goal is to elevate the perception of the teaching profession to attract more high school and college students to consider teaching, and then to provide those students with free resources, tools, and support to become teachers in the Kansas City area.

One of the elements of the partnership is the Career Interest Survey for high school students, which is a key enabler of LPS’s ability to identify and eventually recruit back its alumni to become teachers once they graduate from college.

This online survey is very short (3-5 min), and will provide LPS, your team, and your students with valuable information and opportunities:
  • Students get the option to sign up for TEACH Kansas City, where they will gain access to information, tools, and opportunities to help them explore and pursue teaching.
  • After the survey administration, schools will receive a summary of their student responses (e.g., career interests, desired career exploration resources, etc...) to further inform any existing college and career planning efforts in place, and with each annual administration, you will be able to track and benchmark results over time.
  • After students graduate from high school, schools will have access to data about their alumni who are TEACH Kansas City subscribers (e.g., how many are education majors, etc…) and the opportunity to communicate with them through TEACH Kansas City.
  • Direct students to this link: ontch.org/libertysurvey (note: this link is case-sensitive so all letters should be lowercase)

#BuildSomeoneUp 


Breakfast Club is excited to have your partnership in launching our #BuildSomeoneUp 
initiative. Please show the video below (4 min). 



Please make sure you are able to play it and that the audio is easily heard. The beginning and ending text is important for the overall message we are conveying. 


  •  After the video, ask the students to check their emails. The video will be emailed to them. We are hoping that everyone will want to share and post the video to start a wave of building up others!
  • You can, of course, run with this theme in any way you like!  One thought might be to take a group advisory pic and tweet it out sharing how your advisory is all about #BuildSomeoneUp 
  • David McDorman invited Dallas Ackerman to this event. There is a possibility that someone may come to your classroom for feedback/response.

Advisory Competition - Social Work Closet

Please show Advisory students the slideshow below AND the embedded video