Student Services
Student services are a part of Advent’s effort to ensure that students are strengthened to meet high expectations by supporting and encouraging each child to strive for his or her personal best. Through collaboration with parents and teachers and other resources, our environment fosters each student’s ability to flourish academically, physically, socially, emotionally, and spiritually.
Advent provides responsive services to our community through personal counseling, crisis counseling, problem-solving, or consulting. Students are supported through Student Support Plans (SSP) and Student Learning Plans (SLP), which outline the specific accommodations the school is able to provide to help meet your individual student's needs. Each concern is treated individually and may result in a referral to an outside resource.
Responsive services are carried out through individual, small-group, or whole-group counseling. To best support each family, students are monitored by the counselor to assist in student success.
Advising Program
Each student in grades 5-8 participates in our advising program. During the first quarter, students are explicitly taught skills to strengthen their organization, time management, and planning abilities. These skills are then practiced in the second and third quarters as students begin to prepare for student-led conferences.
Each student sets academic and personal goals at the beginning of the year. Students reflect on their performance weekly with their teacher advisor and then present their progress and achievements to their parents in our student-led conference.
Self-Awareness
Students develop their strengths and opportunities for growth. They learn to identify when help is needed and how to ask for help.
Self-Management
Students learn how to express their feelings and how to handle their actions appropriately. Students work to set goals and achieve them.
Social Awareness
Students demonstrate care and learn how to work with people different from themselves. Students understand and respect others’ thoughts, feelings, and perspectives.
Students demonstrate care and learn how to work with people different from themselves. Students understand and respect their thoughts, feelings, and perspectives.
Relationship Skills
Students interact in ways that foster positive relationships. They learn how to handle conflicts in healthy ways.
Responsible Decision-Making
Students learn to act in ways that are respectful and safe. They consider how their choices will affect themselves and others.