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.
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
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 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.
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:
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Direct students to this link: ontch.org/libertysurvey (note: this link is case-sensitive so all letters should be lowercase)
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
March 14th
For the extended advisory students will be watching a portion of the ESPN film Broke which shows the lives and spending habits of certain athletes. These athletes talk about the downfalls of financial decisions they made and what happens to their money when they stopped playing.
Before watching the movie ask the students to come up with a number they felt if they make per year there would be no way they would go broke. Once you get this number from the students write it on the board and they will see how their number compares to some of the amounts these athletes made.
Once you have stopped the video discuss with the class what poor decisions these people made with their money. Do some of these same decisions apply to people who go broke that don't make millions?
Make sure to start the video from the beginning. I am probably going to show 45 minutes to an hour depending on how interested my kids are in it and then give them the rest of the hour to work on assignments or homework they have. This is up to you. You can always do grade checks if you have time.
Broken
Before watching the movie ask the students to come up with a number they felt if they make per year there would be no way they would go broke. Once you get this number from the students write it on the board and they will see how their number compares to some of the amounts these athletes made.
Once you have stopped the video discuss with the class what poor decisions these people made with their money. Do some of these same decisions apply to people who go broke that don't make millions?
Make sure to start the video from the beginning. I am probably going to show 45 minutes to an hour depending on how interested my kids are in it and then give them the rest of the hour to work on assignments or homework they have. This is up to you. You can always do grade checks if you have time.
Broken
February 21st
Today in advisory were are doing advisory choice. Please play Mr. Zavos Exit 16 video he sent out this morning to promote the club. If you would like to go over active shooter protocol since the events in Florida you could. Let me know if you need anything.
February 14th Valentines Day
In your mailbox you have a brown bag with dumb dumb suckers. The advisory assignment for today is in the brown bag. We are writing thank you cards to people in our building. The instructions tell you what group we are writing to and what to do with them when the students are finished. When the students turn the letters back into you then you can give them their Valentine treat of a sucker. Email me if you have any questions.
January 17th
Open this link about goal setting. There is a short video to watch and then the students are to set 3 goals they want to achieve by the end of the semester. Once they have written their goals collect them and we will hold onto them until the last advisory of their high school careers. We will bring these back out and see if they achieved their goals. Have them write goals they can achieve by the end of their senior year.
January 10th
Today is advisory choice. Please read this to your advisories when class starts and if any are interested please allow them to go to the meeting.
Seniors have the option of going to the Learning Stairs, by the new fieldhouse, today to learn more about the Liberty Community Scholarship Program. The General Application can be used to apply for up to 50 different scholarships. The application only has to be completed once. Each scholarship is guaranteed to be awarded to either Liberty High School or Liberty North High School students. Deadline is February 1, 2018.
If any of your students want to go to the meeting then allow them to leave at this time.
Seniors have the option of going to the Learning Stairs, by the new fieldhouse, today to learn more about the Liberty Community Scholarship Program. The General Application can be used to apply for up to 50 different scholarships. The application only has to be completed once. Each scholarship is guaranteed to be awarded to either Liberty High School or Liberty North High School students. Deadline is February 1, 2018.
If any of your students want to go to the meeting then allow them to leave at this time.
January 9th
Using the Every dollar website we signed up for yesterday we are going to give the students 3 scenarios to see how their money is distributed.
Scenario 1: They are going to be a senior in high school, living at home with their parents. Go to the Paycheck line and have them put in $1000.00. We will figure that is what they make a month after taxes and everything. For cell phone put down $100.00. We are figuring they live at home so they don't have housing bills. Go to the budget line that says gas and put $125.00. Go down to Auto insurance and put $65.00. This should leave them with $710.00, if they look in the top left corner it will tell them. They have $710.00 for the rest of the month. Have them go through and spend this money on whatever items they would want. They can spend it all, put in savings, donate to charity, whatever they want. After giving them a few minutes to fill out the sheet. Ask how many spent every dime and how many put some into savings. Have a discussion about what the rationale was on where they put their money.
Scenario 2: They are living in college. Go to the paycheck line and put in 1000.00. Then go to the mortgage line and put 400.00, 25.00 for water, 25.00 for gas, 25.00 for electricity, 25.00 for cable and 10.00 for trash, 50.00 for groceries, 50.00 for restaurants. This will leave them with 110.00 for the rest of the month see what they would do with the leftover 110.00 and then talk about what they decided and pluses or minuses of what their decision was.
Scenario 3: Take scenario 2 and now add that you had to have your car repaired, which is the car replacement tab for 200.00. This will now put you 90.00 over budget, where would you pull money from to pay for this.
Let me know if you have any questions about these scenarios or the site.
Scenario 1: They are going to be a senior in high school, living at home with their parents. Go to the Paycheck line and have them put in $1000.00. We will figure that is what they make a month after taxes and everything. For cell phone put down $100.00. We are figuring they live at home so they don't have housing bills. Go to the budget line that says gas and put $125.00. Go down to Auto insurance and put $65.00. This should leave them with $710.00, if they look in the top left corner it will tell them. They have $710.00 for the rest of the month. Have them go through and spend this money on whatever items they would want. They can spend it all, put in savings, donate to charity, whatever they want. After giving them a few minutes to fill out the sheet. Ask how many spent every dime and how many put some into savings. Have a discussion about what the rationale was on where they put their money.
Scenario 2: They are living in college. Go to the paycheck line and put in 1000.00. Then go to the mortgage line and put 400.00, 25.00 for water, 25.00 for gas, 25.00 for electricity, 25.00 for cable and 10.00 for trash, 50.00 for groceries, 50.00 for restaurants. This will leave them with 110.00 for the rest of the month see what they would do with the leftover 110.00 and then talk about what they decided and pluses or minuses of what their decision was.
Scenario 3: Take scenario 2 and now add that you had to have your car repaired, which is the car replacement tab for 200.00. This will now put you 90.00 over budget, where would you pull money from to pay for this.
Let me know if you have any questions about these scenarios or the site.
January 8
Students will need to register for a program called Every Dollar. Once students go to the site they need to sign. Once they have created an account it will take them to a page where they can make a budget. For your January income put down what you make a month if you have a job. Then go through looking at the different things you spend money on. You can put in what you spend on the different items a month based on your current situation. Tomorrow we will work on a scenario that might be similar to a college or post high school situation. If you don't have a job then put down that make 500 as your income and then see what your expenses are.
Main thing today is to get the kids signed up and have them play with the site for a little while so they know what to do and how to use the site for tomorrow's scenarios.
Let me know if you have any questions or problems with the site today.
Main thing today is to get the kids signed up and have them play with the site for a little while so they know what to do and how to use the site for tomorrow's scenarios.
Let me know if you have any questions or problems with the site today.
January 5th
Today is advisory choice. There is an advisory choice tab on the blog site for ideas or you can do what you think is beneficial for your advisory.
January 4th
The students need to be reshown the Community Scholarship link. We did this last month, but we had seniors complaining about not know information about scholarship and/or not knowing where to go to get information so we are going to show this again. Make sure kids are on task so we don't have them claiming they didn't know where to go. Here is the link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DbwLPabpig&feature=youtu.be
Email me if there are any questions.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DbwLPabpig&feature=youtu.be
Email me if there are any questions.
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