GROWING CONNECTION AND COMMUNITY
BeBOLD High School Advisory Curriculum
BeBOLD builds connection and community through activities, discussion, and fun! The program is designed to be student-led or advisor-led, depending on your community. Each of the four parts includes 25 engaging sessions on growth-focused topics that encourage honest self-reflection, build skills for solving problems and growing healthy relationships, and offer ideas for taking action and making a community-wide impact. Each part can be used in a single grade or in a school-wide, blended-grade advisory. Being BOLD means embracing opportunities, learning new skills, meeting people, and exploring all that the world has to offer.
The BeBOLD Advisory Program consists of four BOLD parts, each of which includes a full year of advisory meeting.
The BeBOLD Advisory Program aligns with CASEL (Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning) competencies. Review alignment here.
The BeBOLD Advisory Program also aligns with the ISCA (International School Counselor Association) Standard Alignment.
Branch Out: Prepares and challenges young people to build connections and community.
Own It: Empowers students to embrace responsibility for themselves and their community
Lift Up: Teaches young people how to care for, encourage, and support individuals and groups (available Spring 2024).
Dig Deep: Explores possibilities and ideas for leading, contributing, and evaluating impact (available Spring 2025).
UNIQUE BENEFITS
Why BeBOLD Advisory Program?
1. Can be completed in small group settings such as advisory or used in larger group classes and programs.
2. Ignites conversations relevant to the lives of young people today.
3. Supports advisors and facilitators to remain boundaried and within the scope of their expertise and does not ask the adult to play the role of counselor or therapist
4. Topics focus on characteristics of a healthy community, and the actions young people can take to contribute in positive ways.
Skill-Based
Supports advisors and facilitators to remain boundaried and within the scope of their expertise; does not ask the adult to play the role of counselor or therapist.
Tech-Free
Eliminates distractions and ignites conversations relevant to the lives of young people today.
Flexible
Can be completed in small group settings such as advisory or in larger group classes and programs. Topics focus on characteristics of a healthy community and the actions young people can take to contribute in positive ways.
CREATING OPPORTUNITIES FOR YOUTH TO CONTRIBUTE
High School Student Leadership Course
Provide formalized training and inspire your student leaders to boldly lead and contribute in your school community with OTA’s five-video training course, including PDF workbook ($875/one year of access).
Focus of course:
✔️ Definition of step-up, step-back leadership: knowing when and how to speak or listen and observe or act
✔️ Specific strategies for building connection and belonging
✔️ One-on-one and large-group communication skills
✔️ Introduction to a Comfort Zones tool and best practices for supporting peers
✔️ Practice with a LEVERS tool for assessing and responding to concerning situations
✔️ Accountability, responsibility, and ownership of climate and culture
✔️ Leadership leanings and needs—Cheerleaders, Challengers, Comforters, and Coaches
✔️ Inspiration, ideas, and opportunities to explore possibilities for contribution and making a positive difference
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