Kate Phillippo evaluates the practice of having teachers also serve as advisors, tasked with providing social-emotional support to students. Through an in-depth survey of teacher-advisors at three different urban high schools, she examines the different ways in which advisors interpret and carry out the role and the outcomes for students.

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Kate Phillippo is an assistant professor in the Cultural and Educational Policy Studies Department in the School of Education at Loyola University Chicago, USA.

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1. Advisory: A View into Expanded Teacher Roles 2. "Very Nice, but not Very Helpful": The Education Profession's Divergent Representations of Teachers' Social-Emotional Support Responsibilities, 1892-2011 (With Beth Wright) 3. Advisor Role Structure: How Schools Support or Undermine Expanded Teacher Roles 4. Consistency and Variation in Teachers' Implementation of the Advisor Role 5. The Toolbox and How Teachers Used It: Individual Characteristics that Explain Differences in Advisor Role Enactment 6. Occupational Hazards and Innovation: Teachers' Responses to the Advisor Role 7. Tying it All Together: Lessons about Formally Expanded Teacher Roles, Teachers Advising Students, and Teachers Providing Social-Emotional Support Appendix A. Teacher Interview Participants, Sorted by School Appendix B. Overview of Research Methods