Advisory Is Essential:

Insights and Practices for the Post-Pandemic World

An In-Person Workshop

The Evergreen School

15201 Meridian Ave N

Shoreline, Washington

December 12, 2022 - 9:00-3:00pm PT

Target Audience

This workshop will be broadly applicable to all middle and upper school educators, and will be especially useful for Middle & Upper School Teachers who are advisors as well as teachers & administrators who are advisory program leaders

Workshop Description

Unlock your and your school’s potential to strengthen advisory practice and better serve students’ critical needs for connection, purpose, and belonging. Join advisory expert, Steve Barrett, from Wildwood School (K-12) in Los Angeles for this insightful and interactive workshop.

You will:

• Refine (and refind) your purpose as an advisor
• Consider Ideas and strategies to cultivate more effective advisory practices at your school
• Analyze and apply current research and best practices related to advisory
• Practice advisory-ready learning protocols to enhance advising practice, increase student engagement, and facilitate social-emotional learning (SEL)
• Explore versatile program development tools (with applications beyond advisory)

Presented by National Expert, Steve Barrett of Wildwood School

Steve Barrett is a career educator with over 30 years in the field. For the past 12 years, he’s been the Director of the Wildwood Outreach Center—Wildwood School’s professional development and consulting center in Los Angeles. Through the Outreach Center, Steve has coached teachers and school leaders in advisory practice and program development worldwide. He also facilitates professional learning on standards-based assessment, teaching practice, systems thinking, and more. Steve spent the first 19 years of his career as a classroom teacher—in public high schools in Illinois, Wildwood School, and Sage Hill School in Newport Coast, California (where he was also a dean and program director).

Registration

Registration is Now Open

To receive the early bird discount registrations must be completed through the online registration system by the appropriate deadline. NWAIS schools are now able to qualify for the early bird rate if their registration is complete by the deadline and they have noted that payment will follow by check. For non-member schools and those paying by credit card, online registrations must be completed by 11:59pm on the deadline date.

Participant Cancellation Policy

Substitutions may be made any time prior to the conference. Written cancellations received by December 5, 2022 are eligible for a refund after a $25 cancellation fee. Cancellations received after December 5, 2022 are ineligible for any refund.

Program Cancellation

Typically, cancellations and postponements are very rare, however the pandemic has forced us to utilize these options more frequently. Registered attendees will be notified of any program cancellation directly via email as well as through listservs and NWAIS website. In the case that NWAIS needs to cancel, all registration fees will be refunded. NWAIS is however, unable to reimburse other expenses (such as travel) incurred by attendees prior to the event. NWAIS strongly recommends that attendees make travel arrangements that allow for some flexibility such as rescheduling, cancellation and/or future credit.