Challenge Advisory Program
To live effectively is to live with adequate information. Thus, communication and control belong to the essence of man's inner life,
even as they belong to his life in society.
- Herbert Wiener
Mr. Burrus's Advisory shares the love!
Challenge Early College High School provides student communication support and enables strong relationships to develop through the Advisory program, led by Dan DeLeon and Rachel Reedy.
Advisory groups place 10 to 15 students together with a faculty advisor several times a week for ongoing academic and personal counseling and support. These small student-adult ratios are achieved by having nearly every staff member in the school take responsibility for an advisory group. In many cases, teachers advise students they also teach in class, thus increasing the amount of time they spend together during the week. Students stay with the same advisor for at least two years – thus building on existing relationships over extended periods of time. Eventually, the senior-level students will lead the advisory community.
The Challenge Advisory program is focused on developing the skills and behaviors embedded in the HISD Graduate Profile. Using the HISD Graduate Profile as a guide, the Challenge Advisory curriculum was developed to support the acquisition of positive workforce affective behaviors.