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I really enjoyed the last section about goodbyes and the struggle behind them. But also the importance of saying goodbye and what that really means for our students who are truly global citizens.

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Nothing to reconcile :D

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A lot of the readings about making advisory a safe space for all voices resonated with me. It's something I think I do well, but there is still room for improvement. But at least I'm on the right track!

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Thanks for the discussion threads and talk soon! Wishing you the best of luck in the school year ahead!

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I really want to incorporate more student voice and student-led activities. This course gave me some excellent ideas and inspiration and now it's just on me (or rather, the students!) to implement them.

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I learned about this course about two weeks ago from a snapshot. I feel embarrassed that I didn't catch it sooner, but I also couldn't find any other communications about it. I feel like I was a bit overwhelmed trying to complete it in two weeks. 

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I learned about this course about two weeks ago from a snapshot. I feel embarrassed that I didn't catch it sooner, but I also couldn't find any other communications about it. I feel like I was a bit overwhelmed trying to complete it in two weeks. 

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The knowledge and skills highlighted in this course are important for building meaningful and inclusive relationships in all areas of school life.

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The importance of building connections and through that relationships.

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The vision and implementation of actions toward embodying the vision need to be consistent in the school. The purpose needs to be clear and maintained, valued, and protected in terms of time and best grouping of individuals. We need to be careful for this to work.

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I sometimes wonder if I give too much autonomy and respect for their input over the more administrative tasks that are sometimes asked, but the course affirmed for me that the need to let my individual group of students be heardis as important or more as the tasks given to all groups.

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I love that adults are willing and given opportunities to share ideas and learn more about how best to support humanity, starting with the youth, through life and the many lessons we can learn along the way. Value for humanity is what advisory is about and I respect that. Thank you all for taking the time to help change the world.

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This experience helped remind me to ground my adivsory/flex work in the purpose and to focus on strategies to create aligned goals and implementation ideas toward the goal.

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Good advisory programs are difficult to implement, require ongoing effort, and are challenging to main stream.

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Our current practices are to our knowledge the best we can offer to our student community.

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It has been as much an introspective journey as it has been a cooperative journey with my team - Thank you!

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My personal goal is to purposely plan one fun advisory hour each month that takes my students by surprise and that they genuinely enjoy doing. (Example - a 1 hour escape room activity...)

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I'm hoping I will be able to reset my group after this semester. That's the main thing I would like to reconcile. I think our system of FLEX has not allowed for much flexibility in relationship building because we have a lot of tasks to accomplish.

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This affirmed that I do now how to build a safe environment and relationships with kids.

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Good luck out there folks! Keep doing great work!

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I think especially for my 9th graders, I need to incorporate more fun into advisory. :)

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As of now I do not feel that there is anything to reconcile.

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I think the biggest takeaway from this is community. I think our focus in Flex needs to be geared more toward community and less toward a time to give announcements and complete work.

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This course affirmed my commitment to trying to put students at the center of our daily meetings. They'll find meaning in what we're doing if their voices are the ones driving our agenda and our discussions. This will require an overhaul of how we currently do this, but I'm excited to give this a try.

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Some great educator (I'm sure) once said that good education can be summed up in three words: relationships, relationships, relationships. I have never felt more validated in my conviction that this is true than I have taking this course. I am very excited to be teaching at a school that acknowledges the importance of these relationships and sees the value of developing genuine bonds and support systems in small groups throughout the school, so that no student is left behind and all feel that they are part of a larger whole on campus.

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We did it! Now let's get out there and make this great set of challenges a reality on all our campuses!

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Like it or not, humans are tribal beings and we develop our understanding of the world through identity. People identify with race, gender, sexuality, nationality, religion, politics, and many other dimensions. They also identify with circles of physical space: their friend group, their work table, their class, their school. I feel that this course is about leveraging that tendency to create a new circle within the FLEX team. Part of that working involves having things that make our FLEX team specific to "just us". My goal in FLEX is to find ways to develop activities, rituals, and other things that make my students feel that there is something unique and special about OUR FLEX team. I want to walk into school the first day of this semester with a concrete plan to make that happen. My first step will be to employ the students' help in this endeavor. After all, it's their FLEX too!

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The focus on autonomy has come up repeatedly throughout the course and I think including more opportunities for this along with student-constructed discussions could make FLEX feel more useful for students. Still, I want to do this in a way that it doesn't feel like students are responsible for it in a way that it's "another thing to do" to plan FLEX but to have a much larger voice in deciding what we do.

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To me, this is the beginning of a process that will continue for months and years to come.

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This course was great way for me, someone with extensive advisory experience, to reflect on my past experiences as an advisor and really dig deep into the practices that made advisory special, and reflect on the things I could have done better and change for my current FLEX.

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This course affirmed my why about how special and impactful a strong advisory program can be.

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I want to be more intentional in creating a strong advisory culture with my students this year and allow them to facilitate how we do that- routines, norms, traditions, ect.

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Our homeroom curriculum is already really successful in addressing the needs of students highlighted in this course!

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Incorporate more fun across-homeroom challenges to contribute to building homeroom identities.

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Bye for now!

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The Seachange program has provided me with new strategies to apply to our advisory program to better improve the way that I am able to engage and interact with my students. In particular, providing students with an opportunity for voice through our circle discussions and empowered students to engage more often in discussions about what is currently happening in their school environment.

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Having read and seen the transformative power a good advisory program can have, I feel sad that many of what is needed for this is non existing / will not be possible at my school.

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Contribute to special themed advisory sessions.

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Hopefully most end this course feeling inspired rather than overwhelmed.

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I found the chapter on adolescent development most educational and would like to read more about changing transition into adulthood by Jeffrey Arnett.