Reimagine Advisory Strength & Stretch 2/24/22 by World Leadership School https://padlet.com/WorldLeadershipSchool/k4hbiijtskff9gk Strength - How is your school already leveraging parents, alumni, and community for purpose learning? Stretch- Where specifically are there opportunities to go deeper? en-us 2022-01-24 22:31:01 UTC 2025-09-25 00:15:21 UTC hello@padlet.com World Leadership School https://padlet.com/WorldLeadershipSchool/k4hbiijtskff9gk/wish/2009927633 Strength: we are in close communication with parents via our blog, which updates them on the happenings of all our student travel programs. We also email parents before and after each Youth Purpose Summit. 

Stretch: how might we involve parents in doing pre- and post-program reflection work with students for travel? How might we create a space where parents could also reflect and ask questions?]]> 2022-01-24 22:42:19 UTC https://padlet.com/WorldLeadershipSchool/k4hbiijtskff9gk/wish/2009927633 In 2 of our schools, the alumni and parents do come in but not in a structured way. If opportunities arise they come in. Another school is more organized in advisory and parents and alumni come in and participate but strengthening that would be good. And the final school just started advisory and they have strong community connections and have speakers come in, alumni could be used more and these speakers are not used in an advisory program. One problem is that the advisory is not very long. Lots of things compete with advisory time. So how do we fit it all in https://padlet.com/WorldLeadershipSchool/k4hbiijtskff9gk/wish/2010001448 2022-01-25 00:12:07 UTC https://padlet.com/WorldLeadershipSchool/k4hbiijtskff9gk/wish/2010001448 Rolling Hills Prep https://padlet.com/WorldLeadershipSchool/k4hbiijtskff9gk/wish/2010004667 Strength - We use alumni to come back and talk to our seniors about college life and answer questions, or as panelists on different topics we have, or guest speakers for different workshops.  We have used parents and community members sporadically as guest speakers for workshops.  

Stretch - We need to create more purposeful structures around using the experiences and voices of our alumni, parents, and community members.  Maybe we can create a database of this information to refer to so we can see the wealth of information we have.  ]]> 2022-01-25 00:15:03 UTC https://padlet.com/WorldLeadershipSchool/k4hbiijtskff9gk/wish/2010004667 Malibu Middle School https://padlet.com/WorldLeadershipSchool/k4hbiijtskff9gk/wish/2010004908 Strength: We have a pretty solid community that is involved with their kids such as, connections with Pepperdine University to have graduate students work with the students.  There is also the hope for an optimist club at school that connects with the larger community optimist club.

Stretch: there's a LOT of room for stretch for me. We just don't have enough advisory time or enough of a focus on purpose at my school yet to involve parents in it. But I know our parents do a lot of amazing things so something I would love to do is pull them in to talk more about what they do. Possibly having career specific days or periods that the community members come and share? When they come, ask them to have a purpose driven lens with what they say. Maybe prep them with questions about their life path.]]> 2022-01-25 00:15:18 UTC https://padlet.com/WorldLeadershipSchool/k4hbiijtskff9gk/wish/2010004908 Palmer Trinity School https://padlet.com/WorldLeadershipSchool/k4hbiijtskff9gk/wish/2010005633 Strength: We often use alumni/community members to help provide our students with insight on the next steps in their life (moving toward purpose) via meetings/convocations to bring in alumni and community members.

Stretch: We already have the programs/spaces/times for parent involvement around purpose. We just need to go for it!]]> 2022-01-25 00:15:58 UTC https://padlet.com/WorldLeadershipSchool/k4hbiijtskff9gk/wish/2010005633 Sun Valley Community School cphillips37 https://padlet.com/WorldLeadershipSchool/k4hbiijtskff9gk/wish/2010007911 Strength: We tap into alumni, parents, and community in many ways in K-12 programming, including capstone projects in 5th, 8th, and 12th grade, yet I don't think we catalogue it or have a list of resources that we could all use. 
Stretch: To use parents beyond Party Planning with the PA.... to tap into the broad depth of experience they have. It would be awesome to have an inventory of parent, alumni, and community experts for all teachers to access. 

]]> 2022-01-25 00:18:12 UTC https://padlet.com/WorldLeadershipSchool/k4hbiijtskff9gk/wish/2010007911 Watershed School Watershed https://padlet.com/WorldLeadershipSchool/k4hbiijtskff9gk/wish/2010015739 Strengths: we invite people from the community who are living a life of passion and purpose to share during what we call a "learning lunch". (Really it's a presentation during our community meeting.) 
Stretch: I think that we partner well with parents but we haven't necessarily invited them to come in and share their passions in terms of community and modeling, rather than academics (which I think we do well.)]]> 2022-01-25 00:24:59 UTC https://padlet.com/WorldLeadershipSchool/k4hbiijtskff9gk/wish/2010015739 Anchor Schools Project https://padlet.com/WorldLeadershipSchool/k4hbiijtskff9gk/wish/2010017907 Strength - Our work with schools is really about purpose at the institutional level and how everyone "in the building" is critical to shifting the school towards becoming an equity-centered community anchor. 

Stretch - How we connect the dots and support individuals, especially teachers, but also non-student facing staff, in that endeavor. Ensuring that schools do deep work around both committing to and holding both the community-centered purpose of the school/institution and the learning and development of students (which are mutually reinforcing!).  ]]> 2022-01-25 00:27:00 UTC https://padlet.com/WorldLeadershipSchool/k4hbiijtskff9gk/wish/2010017907 Graland Country Day School mchampion9 https://padlet.com/WorldLeadershipSchool/k4hbiijtskff9gk/wish/2010017951 Strength: We use the alumni community to engage with our students regarding where they have found purpose and how it has impacted their life/work/engagement with others.

Stretch: This work occurs in a history classroom setting which brings the rigor but not in advisory which is the fun. Getting advisors engaged in this work would need a great deal of buy-in.]]> 2022-01-25 00:27:03 UTC https://padlet.com/WorldLeadershipSchool/k4hbiijtskff9gk/wish/2010017951