Second Step Advisory by Kevin Collins

2025-08-26 19:40:00 UTC

Easy to teach without having to preview first

2025-08-26 19:40:22 UTC

Remembering to print the worksheets ahead of time, without them I couldn't keep my kids participating.

Content was strong and useful for students

2025-08-26 19:40:24 UTC

Printing the worksheets

2025-08-26 19:40:34 UTC

Good conversation topics

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Scenarios applied to the students, and prompted conversations

2025-08-26 19:40:38 UTC

Print worksheets ahead of time

User friendly

2025-08-26 19:40:41 UTC

students were interested in the videos

2025-08-26 19:40:43 UTC

Allows me to cover advisories when a teacher is absent and still be able to teach

2025-08-26 19:40:50 UTC

Engagement

2025-08-26 19:40:53 UTC

Students thought it didn't apply to them. Didn't see the importance of it.

2025-08-26 19:40:56 UTC

The videos led to deep conversations.

Written responses

2025-08-26 19:40:57 UTC

Getting kids to use the notebooks to reflect and answer the questions

Never enough time to finish

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students not wanting to participate

Student Engagement

2025-08-26 19:41:03 UTC

2025-08-26 19:41:09 UTC

Very easy to teach with engaging visuals.

Print all worksheets for the unit and stack them in a cupboard. Not sure if I should have students keep them, or toss them.

2025-08-26 19:41:10 UTC

Student buy-in; they didn't want to share out.

2025-08-26 19:41:10 UTC

Participation

2025-08-26 19:41:18 UTC

Handouts

2025-08-26 19:41:19 UTC

I really liked the printable handouts that students could fill in. I feel like it helped some students be more engaged.

2025-08-26 19:41:23 UTC

More student friendly than past curriculums

Remembering to print materials

2025-08-26 19:41:24 UTC

2025-08-26 19:41:36 UTC

Hard to get students to talk.

2025-08-26 19:41:41 UTC

easy to teach without prepping

Print materials

2025-08-26 19:41:42 UTC

printing the materials ahead of time helped a little

A handful of students derailed any efforts to move through a lesson with rigor.

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2025-08-26 19:41:45 UTC

I tried to use composition notebooks for the writing...I should have used the worksheets.

Encourage the use of worksheets to help structure and increase student engagement

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Getting students to participate

2025-08-26 19:41:57 UTC

Journals didn't come until later in the year. They aren't as user friendly as the worksheets

Participation

2025-08-26 19:41:59 UTC

Some students were reluctant to participate or get into pairs/groups to discuss.

2025-08-26 19:42:03 UTC

Ease of use. Little prep needed. Content was current to students in school life

2025-08-26 19:42:05 UTC

Talk to your fellow teachers, many teachers had creative ways to help keep students more engaged.

2025-08-26 19:42:13 UTC

Easy to navigate

Slides

2025-08-26 19:42:15 UTC

The slides were user friendly and the information on the slides was not too overwhelming for the kids to look at

Lack of ice breakers to get the class talking and motivated.

2025-08-26 19:42:19 UTC

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Build more community with the class.

2025-08-26 19:42:28 UTC

Printed copies of the worksheets

2025-08-26 19:42:29 UTC

Student participation and accountability

2025-08-26 19:42:42 UTC

print the entire unit prior to starting it.

2025-08-26 19:42:48 UTC

students were relucant to engage content

Encouragement and Expectations

2025-08-26 19:43:15 UTC

I think at the beginning, make it very clear that Advisory is all about participation. I think it will be better to teach those expectations and focus on making sure they do that even if we don't get through a whole lesson.

Grouping students with more purpose.

2025-08-26 19:43:34 UTC

We may need to move our tier 2 SEL elsewhere, because a few kids can absolutely kill the open welcoming mood you need for this to work

2025-08-26 19:43:49 UTC

2025-08-26 19:43:53 UTC

I liked how it reminded you about content from previous lessons and then built on it without expecting you to remember it all a week later.

2025-08-26 19:44:30 UTC

printing the worksheets this year

2025-08-26 19:44:32 UTC

Student engagement and relativism

2025-08-26 19:45:35 UTC

not be so ridged and allow for some advisory lessons to be teacher created and not always second step. These could be fun and culture building lessons to create enjoyment for the students