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Morning Announcements: April/May 2018

Making Dreams Come True How are you celebrating National Student Leadership Week (NSLW)? It's April 15–21, and it's every school's chance to honor the important role of student leaders in boosting the climate and culture of their schools and communities. This year's theme is "Make Your Mark on the World: Dream. Lead. Serve." Have you...
— Advise, Advise: Volume 46 (2017-2018), Uncategorized

Take Ten: April/May 2018

A Creative Challenge Challenge yourself by finding out what you can write in 10 minutes or less by trying one of the 21 writing prompts at https://tinyurl.com/10minwrit. A writing teacher at the San Francisco Writers' Grotto created each prompt, including "Write a eulogy for a sandwich, to be delivered while eating it," and, "Write the...
— Advise, Advise: Volume 46 (2017-2018), Uncategorized

Learn From the Best

Chad Rizner was still on stage after winning the 2017 Warren E. Shull National High School Adviser of the Year Award when his phone started buzzing with a swarm of congratulatory messages. This award, he told Advise, is "more of a recognition for our school and the hard work our kids do, because I don't...
— Advise, Advise: Volume 46 (2017-2018), Uncategorized

From the Directors: April/May 2018

Happy spring! As you read this column, you will note a new name among the authors of this letter. Please welcome our new director of the National Honor Societies, Ms. Nara Lee, who joined the NASSP national office in January.  Her career includes work with District of Columbia Public Schools and the Jack Kent Cooke...
— Advise, Advise: Volume 46 (2017-2018), Uncategorized

Put This Into Practice: April/May 2018

Students are inundated with the perfection depicted on social media. As a result, I see more and more that my students feel inferior to their peers and have a hard time dealing with their feelings when others achieve or receive more than they do. As students are applying to jobs and colleges, making athletics teams,...
— Advise, Advise: Volume 46 (2017-2018), Uncategorized

Chat Room: April/May 2018

NHS students at Willow Bend Academy in Plano, TX, are promoting #MakingGlobalChange by holding a paper recycling contest. To make it fun, they pitted two bins against each other in a match-up of Netflix vs. YouTube so that students and teachers felt more incentivized to recycle their used paper properly. Passersby could place a "vote"...
— Advise, Advise: Volume 46 (2017-2018), Uncategorized

Collaboration Space: April/May 2018

Smartie Pants Student council members at Southwest Career and Technical Academy in Las Vegas decided to do something special to honor academic excellence. To celebrate students who received straight A's for the quarter, they bundled eight Smarties candies together (one for each A earned) with a pants-shaped note that read, "Great job, smartie pants!" They...
— Advise, Advise: Volume 46 (2017-2018), Uncategorized

Advise: April/May 2018

One cannot deny that school is a busy place. With classes, new learning initiatives, sports, clubs, celebrations, and of course, National Honor Society, National Junior Honor Society, and student council meetings, students and staff are constantly juggling multiple commitments. Download Full Issue Features Learn From the BestM. Diane McCormick Talking About CommunicatingWilliam McIlwee Navigating the...
— Advise, Advise: Volume 46 (2017-2018)

Talking About Communicating

It's not always easy to coordinate the efforts of teenage leaders who are among the most active students in their school, are often involved in multiple extracurricular activities, sometimes have jobs, and are always busy being kids.  At Eureka High School in Missouri, we have an active National Honor Society (NHS) chapter of 160 members...
— Advise, Advise: Volume 46 (2017-2018), Uncategorized