Dear colleagues and mentors.
In London a week from now, I will run the London Marathon in support of a youth exchange non profit, The Daneford Trust. Since 1982 this grassroots trust have supported young people within London to volunteer in parts of
Read more…More than 450 people have joined this Ning community since 2007. A small group have been interns working with Tutor/Mentor Connection in Chicago. If you look at the discussions in this visualization group and this network analysis group, you can see
How do i help excellent students under our program maintain excellence
Read more…How does your volunteer based tutoring or mentoring strategy fit into this discussion of "mentoring youth to jobs and careers?" If you're at a college, a business or a foundation, what do you do to support mentoring in this context?
I first posted
Read more…For those who might read the tutor/mentor program web site reviews being created in this forum, and in others in this group, Seung Jung Lee and Eunjin Cho are students from Korea who are spending a month in Chicago as interns with the Tutor/Mentor Co
Read more…T/MC launched a small survey of Chicago tutor/mentor programs in August 09 and Nicole White has summarized the results on her blog.
We launched a broader survey in August 2008 to understand what we have in common and how we differ. You can still tak
We have a set of student under our program who are either always careless with their writing material or do not know why they should be responsible for their failure or success in there academic work how do we make this student more responsible? What
Read more…What ways are you finding flexible operating dollars for your tutor/mentor program? (This discussion was started in 2008, and has been updated to reflect where we are in 2013. The opportunity and need have not changed since this was first launched.)
Read more…I'm a clinical psychology doctoral student at the University of Virginia. I'm working on a research project that will be looking at the ways in which mentors feel supported by their programs. Programs may benefit from this data as a way to assess the
Read more…One of the sites on Ning that has impressed me is Classroom2.0 where several thousand people involved in education and using technology have joined. I'm trying to create a similar space, but focused on people involved in volunteer-based tutoring and/
Read more…I definitely feel that online mentorship can definitely play a role for businesses and employers to reach out to middle and high school students. Especially, since our youth is alot more technicaly dependent and savvy than previous generation. My foc
Read more…This web site titled Chicago2011 offers an opportunity to post feedback to the new mayor and perhaps have the ideas of citizen groups be heard.
I posted ablog article last week about the Mayor's 2011 goals and will be writing more in the near futur
Read more…Last weekend the Waiting for Superman movie opened. It's purpose is to focus attention on a broken public education system and bring people together to build a better one.
Have you seen it? Have you visited the WOF web site to join the discussion an
Read more…Hello,
I have been just introduced to this group. It is great to be connected to like-minded individuals. I am a researcher in the field of technology enhanced learning. As part of my studies in UK , we conducted a small-scale research study about
Read more…I've been invited to be part of a podcast tonight. I've not done this before and am not sure what the format will be, and thus how I'll be able to share information from the vast resources of the Tutor/Mentor Connection.
Thus, I'm posting the discu
Read more…Today the Chicago Tribune featured a story titled Lesson from the Street: Don't Back Down.
A researcher who was quoted in this report is Deanna Wilkinson, from Ohio State University. Deanna joined this Ning group a few weeks ago. I hope you'll all a
As a graduate student at Dominican University, I had the opportunity to study Tutor/Mentor Connections in light of the impact of the network that the organization built of tutoring and mentoring organizations utilizing the internet. The course, Commu
Read more…This blog article by Ryan Allis on change.org's Social Entrepreneurship blog discusses new evidence contending the notion that: "The Only Social Responsibility of a Company Is To Increase Profits for Shareholders."
The article discusses a case study
Today I ran across an innovative new website that is designed as an interactive "virtual classroom" for entrepreneurs. Startup School allows people to create their own profiles then participate in webinars relevant to best practices in starting a suc
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