Advisors
Each student selects a member of the teaching faculty as a personal advisor. The student/advisor relationship is one of the closest the student will form at Blair. Faculty members take this role very seriously and are advisors in the truest sense of the word. They meet with advisees weekly to provide guidance and support in any and every part of life at Blair Academy. An advisor is the student’s advocate, offering help on an academic, social or personal level. The advisor is the person who may ask about the math test or the weekend’s plans, communicating regularly with parents about their sons and daughters and striving to assist every student in maintaining a balanced school life.

Class Monitors
Class Monitors are faculty members who focus on one entire grade level, freshman through postgraduate. They seek an overview of the individual classes as well as work to provide comprehensive support for the faculty advisor and an important link to parents. Monitors meet twice weekly throughout the school year to assess students and their progress, providing important insight to the faculty for any situation that may require broad attention or intervention. The class monitor system gives Blair a flexible, responsive group of faculty members who work closely with parents, students and other faculty to clarify and resolve issues which might otherwise hinder the success of each Blair student.

Ninth Grade Program
Blair eases the academic transition of incoming freshmen with the Ninth Grade Program. Designed to teach the essential habits of organization and planning, the Program helps students develop critical study skills essential for achievement in a concentrated learning environment. During the fall term, freshmen are visited each evening in the dorms by a member of the freshman faculty team who checks each student’s planner notebook, every freshman’s constant companion for tracking and organizing everything to be accomplished. The planner helps student and faculty work together to measure progress or spot potential roadblocks ahead. The nightly visits ensure that each freshman is making progress both inside and outside of the classroom.

Evening Study Hall
Freshmen, new to boarding school life and its academic requirements, begin the year in supervised evening study halls designed to help foster good study habits. As a student’s academic performance and school citizenship record develop, the structure is lessened, from supervised study to a modified study structure. Students directly affect the degree of structure and independence through their own performance.

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