BMU YATST

By Mark Puffer and

Christle Page

YATST at BMU
As a class, we meet three times a week for 45 minutes. (it
is during our study hall block)
We work on class projects, and individual projects
All high school students are welcome (Freshman to
Seniors)
Attendance policy and Advisory are two projects that
showcase our work to date

YATST at BMU
Projects that have been worked on so far:
Attendance policy
Locker-room improvement
Internships
Mentoring program
Work on a metal sculpture
One-to-one computer initiative
Snack program
Varsity sports as a PE credit

YATST at BMU
Track and Field club
4-H program
Mural
High school assembly and survey
Advisory continuation
Hosted Otter Valley (Visited Big Picture, Burlington
High School)
Bullying seminar

Attendance Policy
Background (before/after)
What the attendance policy was before
What made this project difficult?
What it is now

Process, Relationships, Rigor

Meetings with the board
Meetings with the Dean of Students
Surveys out to the high school

Attendance Policy
How it made us feel?
Being involved in the decisions about our future,
decisions that are going
to affect us as students
Empowered, important

Advisory
Why it started?
What the teachers wanted Advisory to be (last
year) (early in the morning, one day a week)
Teachers wanted another way to connect with
students
What really happened?
YATST took on the creation of Advisory as a class
project, in conjunction with the teachers.
Surveyed students on when they wanted Advisory to be

Advisory
What actually happened?
Last year we decided that we would have advisory
Monday mornings from 9:20-9:40
We had to resurvey the students and find out
which teacher they would want as their advisory
mentor
This year, we had to survey the freshman and new
students
We also had to go through a process and changed
advisory to Friday mornings

For Next Year

Advisory: Work that still needs to be done
We want to a have a set curriculum for advisory
Advisory is going to be focused on Personal
Learning plans, and proficiency based graduation
standards
Faculty and students need
to work together to move advisory
into the right direction

For Next Year

J-term: New project
PLP:Where we are
going