Collaboration Space: Winter 2022
Lifeline Links Looking to involve every student in increasing suicide awareness and prevention, NatStuCo members at Mountain View High School in Mesa, AZ, organized a project aimed at fostering support and inspiration. During classroom visits, members explained how everyone could contribute to improved outlooks, and they encouraged students to write positive messages on strips of...
Advise, Advise: Volume 50 (2021-2022)
Opening the Door of Opportunity
Rashaan Davis likes to think back to what he was like as a 15-year-old. It’s not that he’s especially nostalgic because, let’s face it, that’s often a tough age for kids. Davis likes to reminisce because it helps him remember what it was like to be starting high school, and what could have made him...
Advise, Advise: Volume 50 (2021-2022)
Easing Transitions
Students can struggle when they face that transition from middle level to high school and from high school to college or career. Now, along comes a pandemic, when kids are in school one day and homebound in their pajamas the next (with schedules varying week by week). Talk about tough transitions! Advisers use all kinds...
Advise, Advise: Volume 49 (2020-2021)
The Middle Ground: Summer 2021
If you’ve ever owned a dog, then you will understand the meaning of “man’s best friend.” Their soothing, fun-loving, and charismatic nature profoundly affects the mood of the environment. With just under a year of implementation, our therapy dog program at Midway Middle School in Hewitt, TX, has already made a huge impact on our...
Advise, Advise: Volume 49 (2020-2021)
Active Voices: Summer 2021
It has been easy to allow seeds of doubt and hopelessness to take root in our minds throughout this past year. Masks still cover smiling faces, and 6-foot invisible shields keep us away from our friends and family. As anxiety and fear continue to grow rapidly, what can we do as members of our community...
Advise, Advise: Volume 49 (2020-2021)
A Conversation With Shannon Anderson: Spring 2021
Shannon Anderson Shannon Anderson comes from a family of teachers. She has many close relationships with those who teach, including her mom and husband. However, when she started college, she wanted to do anything but teach, because she had been surrounded by education her whole life and yearned for something different. She graduated college with...
Advise, Advise: Volume 49 (2020-2021)
Active Voices: Spring 2020
What is toxic masculinity, exactly? Toxic masculinity “is what can come of teaching boys that they can’t express emotion openly; that they have to be ‘tough all the time’; that anything other than that makes them ‘feminine’ or weak,” notes Maya Salam in The New York Times article “What Is Toxic Masculinity?” Cultural expectations make...
Advise, Advise: Volume 48 (2019-2020)