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APPENDIX D
74 Central Falls High School FIRST YEAR TRANSFORMATION REPORT
Complete Listing of Open-Responses on Advisory
Staff Survey Question: Do you feel advisory has been beneficial to students this year?
Please describe examples of the activities you’ve implemented in advisory
this year.
Teachers (n=36 teachers: 36 responses*)
1. Advisory is a waste of 22 minutes. I know my students. it was nice to get a break to sit and chat
with them, but it is an overall waste of time and money.
2. Advisory need to use better.
3. Advisory needs to be graded. Students do not take it seriously. The time spent on advisory
could be better spent towards instructional time. How much personalization is too much personalization?
4. Advisory this year has been a joke. At the beginning I tried to the lessons put out every week.
However, over the course of the year they became rote and boring. The students lost interest
as did I. Also I ended up having to plan for advisory as if it was another period because the lessons
provided were horrible.
5. Advisory was a success due to students being placed by academy
6. Did the restorative circle. It was fine to touch base about weekends. Did review goal sheets.
Followed what we were told to do by K. Centazzo.
7. I believe a majority of teachers do not value advisory. I believe they see it as a break, down
time or free time.
8. I feel advisory had a lot of little issues. The everyday advisory was too much for the students
and the short time periods. Students need longer time with consistency with one teacher.
9. I have not found it to of benefit. I have tried role play discussion.
10. N/A
11. No
12. NO
13. No 20 minutes too short
14. No-
15. No-22 minutes is not long enough to do anything meaningful. Lessons for the week are sometimes
not received until Monday morning leaving little or no time to plan effectively for a 22
minute period.
16. No, everyday is too much that students were getting discussed.
17. No. No time for planning; plan for the week comes out on the Tuesday of that week; activities
greatly disliked by students