The BCCHS Advisory Program provides students with a supportive atmosphere throughout high school. Advisory groups remain intact during their four years, and consist of no more than 25 students. One faculty member is assigned to each advisory, traveling with that group until their students graduate. Advisors meet with their students for 25 minutes every day. Each student is responsible for reading 25 books and completing 20 hours of community service each year. Advisory helps to facilitate this process as well as engage students in community-building activities such as letter-writing and discussion in an atmosphere of tolerance and mutual respect.

Parents develop relationships with their child’s advisor. Advisors become their primary contact within the school to inform them about their child’s academic progress and well-being. Advisors also act as an advocate during all meetings concerning that student.

Advisory Goals

9th Grade

To support and encourage students as they make the difficult transition to high school, to introduce students to advisory routines, and to keep close tabs on any child who is at risk.

Students exchange letters with their advisors on a bi-monthly basis. Their letters provide them with a forum to analyze reading materials as well as personal issues. Students also engage in weekly discussions ranging from current events to problems affecting them as new high school students.

10th Grade
To encourage students to bond and create meaningful relationships, to increase their responsibility in the BCCHS outside community, and to keep close tabs on any child who is at risk.

Students continue to exchange letters with their advisors on a bi-monthly basis. Their letters become a conversation instead of a student’s personal reflection of their current reading material. Discussions are now initiated by the students.

11th Grade
To encourage students to deepen the bonds and relationships between each other and their advisors, to increase their responsibility within the BCCHS community and the outside community, and to begin the research necessary for the college process.

Students begin to exchange letters with fellow classmates. Students engage in personal growth as they begin preparing for and discussing their college plans, using their advisor as a guide in this process.

12th Grade
To support and encourage students as they make the difficult transition to college, to keep close tabs on students’ courses, and to maintain communication with the college office.

Students meet as an advisory on a bi-weekly basis in Senior Institute. During the Fall semester Senior Institute prepares them for college and helps them with the college process. This includes helping them to write their essays and determine where they will be applying. In the Spring semester, students work on their Senior exit project. This graduation requirement provides students with the opportunity to participate in a major undertaking in their area of interest.