Brian M. Stack's School Leadership Blog

Our juniors and seniors participate in a career pathway exploration program in advisory. Advisory programs in high schools are not a new concept; in fact they have been popular in schools for more than two decades. They were born out of an early movement to personalize and individual school for each student and ensure that schools connect every student with at least one adult who can understand and advocate for them as needed. Schools employ a variety of advisory models in their schools today. Programs are often modeled after best practice research, state requirements, or standards set by regional school accreditation intuitions. The New England Association of Schools and Colleges (NEASC) , the accreditation institution for the northeast, never calls out the need for an advisory program directly in their standards . Rather, they state this: There shall be a formal, ongoing program through which each student has an adult member of the school community in addition to ...

This week we were reminded just how important school safety is. The focus of my blog article today is what we are doing at Sanborn to keep staff and students safe at all times. This week, our country mourns the loss of ten people in a school shooting at a small community college in Roseburg, Oregon. In that same event, another seven were injured. At a vigil the night of the shooting, Oregon Gov. Kate Brown stated, "In our sorrow, we will remember and honor those lost today, and they will forever be in our hearts. May peace be with you." President Obama released a public statement, indicating that "We've become numb to this. This is something we should politicize, it is relevant to our common life together, to the body politic. I hope and pray that I don’t have to come out again during my tenure as president to offer my condolences, but based on my experiences as president I can’t guarantee that," the president added. "And that’s terrible to say. An...