Our school has an advisory block that meets every Tuesday for the 1st 40 minutes of the day.  In this advisory teachers are to host an advisory block that can help improve the school community and culture.  There are many different advisories with some even reaching outside the school community: domestic violence, recycling and so on.  Does anyone else run an advisory or x-block or something else that allows faculty to interact with students outside the academic parameters that school has attached to it?  If so, what do you do?  What is successful in your school?  Do faculty members have an issues because it may not necessarily be drawn out in their contracts?  If this happens how does your school deal with the issues?