Lastly, it establishes an advisement, educational, career, and college-related coaching forum, cutting across individual subject areas. To put it briefly, advisory programs foster student achievement as well as their healthy growth directly via monitoring, instruction, and coaching, and indirectly by means of increasing students' attachment to their schools (Poliner and Lieber, 2003)
, getting on with fellow students, acquiring a positive self-concept, living while at school, etc. In an ideal advisory program, a transescent will be able to become closely acquainted with one adult faculty member, who will aid him/her in understanding how he/she can be a wholesome individual and in finding a sense of security at school (Stawick, 2011)
, "New Visions for New Schools"-sponsored initiatives) have incorporated advisory into their models for thriving small schools, as well. According to the ISA (Institute for Student Achievement), advisory, together with student problems-focused team meetings and other such measures, denotes a promising means of distributed counseling implementation (Tocci et al
Advisory experts caution that meticulous advisor preparation and program planning form the key to program success. Failure to convey program objectives clearly and to achieve wholehearted teacher acceptance are, perhaps, the greatest reasons behind failure (Weiss, 2006)