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Each teacher and administrator is assigned several advisees along with a graduate fellow or two. This group eats lunch together every Thursday and also shares occasional social events throughout the semester. Advisors meet with their advisees one-on-one frequently for short, informal mentoring sessions. This advisory system ensures that each student has at least one adult on campus who knows them well and is checking in on them regularly.

A number of advisory groups had their last advisory dinners or activities this week or last week, some of them holiday-themed. In the accompanying photos you see a gingerbread house-making activity with the advisory groups of Cathy Palmer, Director of Outdoor Programs and Residential Life, and Jean Haack, Sustainability Coordinator; a cookie-baking and -decorating activity with my advisory group and the advisory group of Phil DeLong, Director of Admissions and Residential Life; and a dinner and games night with the advisory groups of Nancy Schwartz, Art Teacher, and her husband, Robert Eady, Science and Ceramics Teacher. All of the activities were held at staff members’ on-campus apartments. Enjoy the photos and the short clip (below) of students singing at Nancy and Robert’s.

- Mary Anna

Savanna, Katie, Theo, Kelsie, and Jean Haack, Stewardship Coordinator, decorate gingerbread cookies and a gingerbread house.

Kelsie

Kelsie and Katie

Maddie works at the island, Jean is at the stove, and Lucy the Golden Retriever is hoping for a treat.

Sammie, Theo, Kelsie, and Katie

Brooke, Hanaa, and Graduate Fellow Leanna Jackan frost cookies.

After frosting several batches, Brooke is still going and Hanaa looks like she’s had enough.

Megs, Brooke, Katie, Hanaa, Hannah, Katin, Leanna, and Phil DeLong, Director of Admissions and Residential Life

Phil, Bill (Graduate Fellow), Adam, Brooke, Megs, Hanaa, Katie (Katin and Hannah are in the foreground)

Katie and Katin get ready to mix up some cookie batter.

Katin and Katie show off (and enjoy) the oatmeal-peanut butter cookies they baked.

Leanna and Adam at the kitchen table in my apartment, with Phil at the island behind them.

Megs gets ready to roll out cookie dough and cut out shapes.

Aris, Graduate Fellow Amy Nosal, Garrett, and Montana share a meal at the apartment of teachers Nancy Schwartz and Robert Eady.

Cadan, Anna, Laura, and Aris play a game.

Garrett, Montana, and Ryan

Sarah, Cadan, Bailey, Anna, Laura, Aris, Amy, and Garrett

Laura, Aris, and Amy

Graduate Fellow Leanna Jackan and Sarah

Montana and Ryan

Ryan

Conserve School is a conservation-based semester school for high school students. Read more about us at www.conserveschool.org or on our Facebook page.

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