The Tutor/Mentor Connection has created a wide range of resources that can be used in Chicago or any other city to support the growth of volunteer-based t
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…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
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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…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…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
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…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 met Cheryl Howard, a fund developer for Big Brothers Big Sisters of Chicago, at a meeting this week. We started talking about what causes some volunteers to grow into leaders who help the organization grow by volunteering time, talent and dollars.
Read more…Below is a message thread between Dan Bassill at Tutor/Mentor Connection, and Kathryn McCabe, the Executive Director, of the Cluster Tutoring program which operates in the Austin area on the West side of Chicago. If you have some thoughts on how Chic
Read more…Between 1999 and 2002 the T/MC hosted a survey during each May and November conference. This pdf shows the findings from questions that asked what the most important needs of a program were http://www.tutormentorexchange.net/images/PDF/Survey_Data2.
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