Presented at NACADA 2016 by Claudia Trevino, Jeanette Pacheco, and Margaret Garry

1. What’s your favorite Harry Potter moment?

2. The Order of Academia
What Harry Potter Taught Me About
Leadership & Academic Advising
Texas State University
PACE Advising
Margaret G. Garry
Jeanette M. Pacheco
Claudia L. Treviño

3. Table of Contents
• Year I: The Ministry of PACE
• Year II: There is no “I” in Team, but there
is in Magic!
• Year III: Accio StrengthsQuest!
• Year IV: 4 Strengths & 4 Houses
• Year V: The Sorting Hat
• Year VI: Take a Seat with Your House
• Year VII: Your Hogwarts House

4. House Points!
House related Harry Potter Trivia for
special prizes!

5. The Ministry of PACE
• PACE: Personalized Academic and Career
Exploration
• Developed as part of QEP and opened in
2012
• One stop shop for 1st year students
• Over 20,000 1st year students have been
served since being established

6. There is no “I” in team,
but there is in Magic!
• PACE Advising: Advising for over 90
majors
• 21 Staff Members
• Internal Programs & Teams
– Leadership – College Liaisons
– Assessment – Professional Dev.
– CDT – GAIT
– Probation – PRT
• Focus on team building and development

7. Accio StrengthsQuest!
• 30 minute on-line assessment, the Clifton
Strengths Finder
• 34 Strength Themes, Top 5 Talent Themes,
& 4 Strengths Domains
• Use your innate talents for:
– academic and career success
– leadership development

8. Accio StrengthsQuest!

9. 4 Strengths & 4 Houses
• Executing: They take
action and know how to
get things done! They
“have the ability to catch
an idea and make it a
reality.”
• Relationship Building:
They see how individuals
fit into the big picture.
They “are the essential
glue that holds a team
together.”
• “You might belong in
Gryffindor,
Where dwell the brave at heart,
Their daring, nerve, and
chivalry
Set Gryffindors apart”
• “You might belong in
Hufflepuff,
Where they are just and loyal,
Those patient Hufflepuffs are
true
And unafraid of toil”

10. 4 Strengths & 4 Houses cont.
• Strategy: They can take a
thought or idea and look
for the best way to move
forward on it. They “keep
us focused on what could
be.”
• Influencing: Their ability
to take charge and speak
up helps them to sell the
team’s big ideas. They
“make sure your group is
heard.”
• “Or yet in wise old
Ravenclaw,
if you've a ready mind,
Where those of wit and
learning,
Will always find their
kind”
• “Or perhaps in Slytherin
You'll make your real
friends,
Those cunning folks use
any means
To achieve their ends”

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12. The Sorting Hat
• The Order of Academia Sorting Hat was
brainstormed using Harry Potter Themes,
StrengthsQuest, and advising office
situations.
• Available on-line:
http://bit.ly/nacadahpatl
• Available on paper

13. Take a Seat with Your House
Break into groups based upon your Hogwarts
house and discuss the following:
• Do you agree with your house placement?
• If you have taken StrengthsQuest, does your
house match your leadership domain?
• What are some ways that you have used your
house/leadership domain to be successful
working with colleagues/students?

14. GRYFFINDOR
If you are in Gryffindor
• You aren’t afraid to take
initiative and tackle big
projects, even if there’s a
tight deadline
• People look to you to get
things done around the
office
• You advocate publicly for
causes that are important
to you
Ways to use your Strengths
• Put your talents to use.
Find a need and go meet
it!
• Keep track of your
projects
• Use your knowledge of
developing action plans
to help your students to
plan for their short and
long term academic goals

15. Gryffindor House Points
What is the first name of the head
of Gryffindor House?
Minerva

16. Slytherin
If you are in Slytherin
• You are plugged into the
office and institutional
culture
• You use your powers of
influence to ask great
questions
• You are a strong advocate
for people who depend
on you
Ways to use your Strengths
• Keep asking probing
questions
• Partner with colleagues
from other houses to help
get a diverse range of
ideas and projects off the
ground
• Use your power of
influence to help students
make good choices

17. Slytherin House Points
Name a Slytherin present at the
Battle of Hogwarts who fought
defending Hogwarts?
Horace Slughorn

18. HUFFLEPUFF
If you are in Hufflepuff
• You make the office a
place where people want
to be
• You are reliable, and you
bring a consistent, strong,
work ethic to everything
you do
• Patience is one of your
strongest virtues
Ways to use your Strengths
• Get involved with
community development
on your campus
• Advocate for all the hard
work that you do
• Watch for your students’
nonverbal cues

19. Hufflepuff House Points
What color are Cedric Diggory’s
eyes?
Sparkling Grey

20. RAVENCLAW
If you are in Ravenclaw
• You ask really good
questions
• You think about the
future. You organize the
team’s ideas and goals
into an executable plan
• You’re always trying to
find ways to see the
30,000 foot view of a
situation
Ways to use your Strengths
• Join a team or work on a
project that requires lots
of planning
• Become active in a
professional reading
group for advisors on
your campus or start one
if none exists
• Help your students build
a strategy to be successful

21. Ravenclaw House Points
Professor Flitwick, the head of
Ravenclaw house, was a
champion ________ during his
youth?
Champion Duelist

22. Mischief Managed!
Thank you for your time
and participation!
“We do not need magic to transform our
world. We carry all the power we need
inside ourselves already. We have the
power to imagine better.”

23. Resources
• Clifton, D., Anderson, E., & Schreiner, L. (2006).
Strenghsquest: discover and develop your strengths in
academic, career, and beyond. New York, NY: Gallup
Press.
• Garry, M., Pacheco, J., & Trevino, C. (2016) The
order of academia quiz.
http://www.buzzfeed.com/margaretggarry/the-
order-of-academia-quiz-25gyl
• Rath, T., & Conchie, B., (2009). What makes a great
leadership team. Retrieved from:
http://www.gallup.com/businessjournal/113338
/what-makes-great-leadership-team.aspx
• Rowling, J.K., (1997). Harry Potter and the sorcerer’s
stone. New York, NY: A.A. Levine Books.