We have engaged our Upper School students in a number of ways to provide support while also creating opt-in opportunities for each individual.

We hold a mandatory synchronous fifteen-minute advisory each weekday for advisors to check in with their students, give announcements, and participate in any bonding activities (online puzzles, recipe shares, etc.).

We launched an Advisory Challenge that had three main components:
1) A spirit challenge in which students completed grade-specific challenges each week and posted videos to a common Flipgrid.
2) An online multimedia magazine, organized by the Student Body President, that put out weekly or bi-weekly issues with student submissions of poetry, art, photography, and fiction/nonfiction.
3) A wellness/service challenge based on pillars of care from the Greater Good Science Center. Each day of the week corresponds to a different pillar — move, outreach, nourish, connect, and be — with specific ways that community members can achieve each pillar every day.
Prizes are given for the advisory winner each week, and a grand prize goes to the advisory with the most total points throughout the challenge.

Clubs and affinity groups meet during half of the hourlong lunch break throughout the week.

Teams connect for remote activity and bonding for 30-60 minutes in the mid-afternoon, and the Athletics Department organized a fitness challenge across all teams with tasks such as planks, push-ups, and air squats.