Summer 2023

Stanford Graduate School of Education (GSE) Advising Toolkit Canvas Module

Project Lead

Advising Toolkit Working Draft

A Canvas Module toolkit co-created with two other Women of Color Scholars. This Stanford GSE specific toolkit is designed for Stanford doctoral students and candidates to navigate academic advising in and beyond the Academy. (Testimonial Below)

The Advising Toolkit is comes with the following 7 modules:

Module 1: What is an Advisor?

Module 2: What is an Advisee?

Module 3: Mentoring vs. Advising: What’s the Difference?

Module 4: Role Differentiation: What is an Advocate, Honorary Advisor, Mentor, Professor, or Role Model?

Module 5: Same place, Different Backgrounds: Advising Across Cultural Identities, Gender, Race, and Sexual Orientation

Module 6: Confronting Challenges in Advising Relationships

Module 7: External Committee Members: The Nuts and Bolts

Module Creators:

Shameeka Wilson (she/her)

Ph.D. Candidate in Race, Inequality, and Language in Education (RILE)

Toolkit Project Lead & Contributor

Modules 1, 2, 5, 6, 7 

Melissa Lewis (she/her)

Ph.D. Student in Developmental and Psychological Sciences (DAPS)

Toolkit Contributor 

Module 3

Jackelyn Rivera-Orellana (she/her)  

Ph.D. Student in Race, Inequality, and Language in Education (RILE) and Curriculum and Teacher Education (CTE)  

Toolkit Contributor 

Module 4

Dean Anne Harper Charity Hudley, Ph.D. (she/her; Black & Proud)

Associate Dean of Educational Affairs 

Project Faculty Mentor

Module 1

Mae Bethel (she/her)

Academic Technology Specialist

Project Staff Support 

Josh Weiss (he/him)

Director of Digital Learning Solutions

Project Staff Support

Testimonial: Shameeka led a team of three dedicated Black and Latina doctoral students who worked to create a 40-page evidence-based guide to advising that we now use in the first quarter of our doctoral proseminar. Shameeka also led the team in presenting the work as a teaching fellow for the proseminar, and the information's impact was immediately palpable in the room. Students had questions and were engaged in asking questions about how to start their advising relationships off right. Our first-year doctoral students now have a good sense of their rights and responsibilities as advisees. Shameeka's work extends the work I started as a PI of the NSF AGEP-funded California HSI alliance during my time at UCSB, and Shameeka is advancing that research into one that is a model for graduate school education at Stanford in the School of Education broadly and beyond.

- Dean Anne Harper Charity Hudley, Associate Dean of Educational Affairs