NatStuCo Update: Summer 2020
With the upheaval of the current school year, your student council—and the direction, culture, and sense of community it provides for the school—are more important than ever. Help galvanize your student council by widening the ways you keep members engaged as you look ahead to the next school year. Hold a summer retreat. This can...
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Morning Announcements: Summer 2020
Make Your Case For Lead LEAD Conferences are energizing weekends that provide advisers and students alike with leadership training, motivation, and networking with peers from around the country. LEAD offers support tools at www.leadconferences.org/toolkit, which outline for your principal, administrators, or school board the numerous benefits of students and advisers attending a LEAD Conference. Begin...
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A Conversation With … Jamie Pascua
Jamie Pascua, coach and student council adviser at Sandy Valley School in Sandy Valley, NV, was named the 2019 Warren E. Shull National Middle Level Adviser of the Year. Pascua has advised the student council for 17 years. During that time, she has helped her young leaders grow by fostering their efforts to plan and...
Advise, Advise: Volume 48 (2019-2020)
Building A Better World: Summer 2020
Students today are action-oriented, hyperconnected, and better informed than any other generation. Wrap an overarching objective around these key elements to collaborate, and students begin to see that we can build a better world and that they are part of the solution. Consider this article your quick reference to introduce or integrate the UN Global...
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Healing in the Aftermath of School Violence: Summer 2020
It was a teacher’s worst fear realized; we had an active shooter on campus. Forest High School was spared that day from loss of life, but for the 2,184 students on our campus, the nightmare of having shots fired and the blood of a classmate spilled created severe emotional trauma. That day was a surreal...
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Spend It Wisely: Summer 2020
Few student groups have the luxury of not needing to raise money to fund their activities. According to Nonprofit Source, school groups raise more than $1.5 billion every year selling various products. Other groups host events that make a profit in order to raise funds. Taking care of all the details involved with these fundraisers...
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Take 10: Summer 2020
Change for the Better Whether you’re a brand-new adviser or a veteran looking to spice things up, there are smart ways to enact change within your chapter or council: Develop an outline for the changes with specific, measurable goals. Use good, reliable sources (both human and material). Make a timetable for completion, including steps with...
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Honor Society Update: Summer 2020
Planning to retire or move to another school or district? If this year will be your last as an adviser with your current chapter, or if you’re looking for ways to prepare for next school year, take time to think about what you can do to ensure the transition goes smoothly. The process involves more...
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Change for the Better: Summer 2020
Donna Murphy has a counseling caseload of 400 students at her high-achieving high school and has more than 250 members in her very active NHS chapter. She also serves on the leadership team in her school and helps in a host of other school functions and activities. So it’s easy to see why she streamlined...
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From the Directors: Summer 2020
This is always a busy time for advisers, but this year the global impact of and response to COVID-19 has dramatically altered our lives. We are faced with anxiety over our future and long to be with family members, colleagues, and communities again. And yet, this is a time when we see hope rise. Many...
Advise, Advise: Volume 48 (2019-2020)