In middle grades education, advisory programs are structured, intentional, and supportive environments that assign 10 to 20 students to an adult advisor (most often a teacher) who serves as a mentor, advocate, and guide throughout their middle school years. Advisory programs promote community and personalized support in middle schools. In addition to forming stronger social relationships with classmates in smaller communities, advisory programs offer students and teachers the opportunity to "develop trusting relationships" (Brown & Knowles, 2014, p. 91). This essay focuses on student advisory programs as locations of opportunity and innovation to examine how such structures can generate or inhibit a more culturally responsive, inclusive classroom and school environment for all students and educators.