Our Current WISL Programs/Work
Arts Bridging the Gap, or ABG, is a local nonprofit organization focused on making a lasting impact in under-resourced communities by empowering youth through its many programs.
The overall goal of this ongoing consulting project for WISL is to take ownership of WISL members’ own digital well-being, to educate younger students in our community, and to pilot and then create a meaningful peer-to-peer mentorship program to help roll out to other schools.
In the fall of 2025, WISL was invited to submit a presentation to facilitate a session for March 2026’s Student Power Summit (SPS), hosted by Learning Inspired, a national education nonprofit. The only national conference dedicated to student agency, 2026’s SPS was set in downtown Los Angeles at the California Endowment Center in partnership with Homeboy Industries.
WISL’s 7th year of elementary school literacy & social emotional learning consulting work with three classrooms (TK, Kinder, and 1st grade) at Braddock Drive Elementary School (a local Title 1 LAUSD school close to Wildwood’s Elementary campus) has been fantastic!
At the request of a small group of middle school students, WISL piloted a Junior WISL’ers program during the 2024-25 school year for them to get a taste of institute life and an idea of what WISL is all about.
Short Avenue Elementary School, a local LAUSD campus near Wildwood Elementary, and WISL, are collaborating for the fifth year to support Short Avenue’s 2nd-grade teaching team with their "Sharing our Planet" IB (International Baccalaureate) unit in a fun & interactive way, focusing on WISL’s community activism/animal welfare work. Working closely with Short Avenue’s 2nd-grade teaching team, WISL shares expertise with animal welfare work while making the connection to the “Sharing our Planet'' theme, as well as to literacy & writing.
Sages & Seekers, an intergenerational local nonprofit organization focusing on building relationships between Sages (adults 60+) and Seekers (students ages 12-24) to diminish ageism, combat social isolation, and develop empathy between generations.
Ready To Succeed is a Los Angeles-based non-profit focusing on empowering and accelerating foster youth and low-income first-generation college students through career coaching, mentorships, internships, financial aid, and support to help students achieve college graduation and successful careers.
Harvest Home is a local nonprofit organization that works with unhoused single mothers and pregnant women to shelter them when they have nowhere else to go.
WISL collaborated for a 4th year in 2025-26 with Wags & Walks (a local animal welfare nonprofit located within walking distance to our campus), to relaunch our “De-stress with Rescue Dogs” event in hopes of decreasing stress levels for Wildwood seniors during the college application process.
