The Bridge Forward: High School Leader Guide
Welcome Students into High School with Purpose and Connection
High school marks the beginning of a critical chapter filled with growth, discovery, and preparation for the future. The High School Leader Guide equips school leaders with the tools to create a welcoming, inclusive environment that helps incoming students feel supported from day one.
With strategies for implementing schoolwide practices like open houses, shadow days, and peer mentorship programs, this guide helps leaders strengthen students’ sense of belonging and set them on a path toward academic and personal success.
High school leaders have the job of inviting incoming students into a learning community in which they will experience many important milestones and which will prepare them for the rest of their lives. High school administrators can use the Transition to High School Leader Guide to institute open houses, visit days, peer mentorship programs, and other schoolwide practices that strengthen incoming students’ relationships with their new learning community and set them on a positive trajectory.
- Item #: 714-BKS-CRSM
- Peer mentorship program resources, including peer mentor training sample schedules, peer mentor application, and peer mentorship monthly activities
- Visit day resources, including visit day sample schedules
- Open house resources, including sample schedules
- Counselor resources, including scripts for common scenarios
- Orientation resources, including sample schedules and Responsive Advisory Meeting lesson plans
- Ten additional Responsive Advisory Meeting plans
- A preview of the parent resources
- Directions for eleven developmentally appropriate activities
High school leaders have the job of inviting incoming students into a learning community in which they will experience many important milestones and which will prepare them for the rest of their lives. High school administrators can use the Transition to High School Leader Guide to institute open houses, visit days, peer mentorship programs, and other schoolwide practices that strengthen incoming students’ relationships with their new learning community and set them on a positive trajectory.
- Item #: 714-BKS-CRSM
- Peer mentorship program resources, including peer mentor training sample schedules, peer mentor application, and peer mentorship monthly activities
- Visit day resources, including visit day sample schedules
- Open house resources, including sample schedules
- Counselor resources, including scripts for common scenarios
- Orientation resources, including sample schedules and Responsive Advisory Meeting lesson plans
- Ten additional Responsive Advisory Meeting plans
- A preview of the parent resources
- Directions for eleven developmentally appropriate activities