Responsive Advisory Meeting

Responsive Advisory Meeting is a structure for middle school students to explore interests, practice skills, and strengthen their social and emotional competencies while developing positive relationships with peers and adults

Meet Students’ Needs For Significance and Belonging

Responsive Advisory Meeting is a predictable routine for building meaningful connections and respectful, trusting relationships.

Advisory provides a space and structure for teachers to support middle school students individually and as a group as they develop their sense of self and identity in relation to their relationships with peers. It has four sequential components: arrival welcome, announcements, acknowledgments, and activity.

Check out the article, “What is Responsive Advisory Meeting?“, to learn more.

The Purposes of Responsive Advisory Meeting

  1. Build student-to-student affiliation
  2. Energize and re-engage
  3. Reflect & recalibrate
  4. Extend learning through themes
  5. Support academic readiness
  6. Strengthen advisor-advisee relationships
  7. Develop communication and social skills development

Responsive Advisory Meeting Activity Ideas

Four Corners 

  1. Pose a question (for example, “What’s your favorite food?”)
  2. Designate each corner of the room as one response (for example, corner 1—pizza; 2—fruit; 3—ice cream; 4—tacos). 
  3. Have students move to the corner that most closely represents their response.
  4. Students discuss why with others who are also in that corner.
  5. Repeat for other questions.

Just Like Me 

  1. Make a statement that is probably true for some students.
  2. Students stand up if it applies to them (or raise hands if standing is difficult) and say, “Just like me.”
  3. Repeat with 3 – 5 more statements. 

Fact or Fiction 

  1. Students write three statements about themselves: two are factual (true); and one is fictional (false). 
  2. One student reads all three statements aloud. 
  3. The other students vote on which statement they think is false.
  4. The student reveals the false one.
  5. Continue until everyone has shared or spread this activity over several Advisory meetings.

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