Career & Technical Ed
mentorship
Equity & Access
Elevating Women Educators is More Important Than Ever
Women fill the significant majority of teaching roles in schools, yet they hold fewer than a third of superintendent positions nationwide. School districts must enact deliberate programs to develop female leadership pipelines.
Personalized Learning
3 Strategies to Provide Mentorship and Support to Students During Challenging Times
SEL coach and teacher Kelli Moneyhun shares three strategies her school used this year to prioritize relationships, connections, and mentorship with students in honor of National Mentoring Month.
Leadership
This School Year, It Will Take A Village
Julia Freeland Fisher explores why millions of students who returned this fall need a community of positive relationships.
Personalized Learning
Bringing Project-Based Mentors into The Educational Fold
Patty Alper authored a book entitled, Teach to Work, How a Mentor, a Mentee and a Project Can Close the Skills Gap in America. She presents her findings here.
Future of Learning
Making a Difference: Education for Refugees
Dr. Ilene Winokur has been educating displaced refugees and mentoring emerging education leaders, creating opportunities, and making a difference for people in the Middle East for three decades.
Leadership
Why Mentorship Matters
By: Alexa Goins. Mentorships in tech are essential to helping the next generation of professionals learn and grow. At Kenzie Academy, they are using mentorship to help our students get career-ready and land the job.
Leadership
Getting Clearer: Our Students Need Sponsors, Not Saviors
Kelly explains the importance of students having sponsors - concerted communities of mentors that in various roles and responsibilities invest in the talents and desires of our young people.
Difference Making
Can Peer Mentoring Solve the STEM Gender Gap?
Global technology education nonprofit Technovation demonstrates the power of a community-based approach to teaching computer science to young females that centers around real-world problem-solving and mentorship.
Equity & Access
The Educational Implications of Michelle Obama’s Becoming
Erin Gohl and Kristen Thorson share insights from Michelle Obama’s biography, Becoming, and how parents, teachers and mentors supported her education. Read as they share her mission to provide educational structures, policies, and programs that show all students that they matter.
Leadership
The Importance of Being a Mentor and Having a Mentor
Mentoring is a very important part of what we “engage” in as educators. Whether we serve as a mentor to a colleague or a student, or perhaps we seek out a mentor to help us with challenges or simply to have a system of support in our personal and professional lives, it has a tremendous impact. Whether or not we even realize it at times, we are all serving as a mentor to someone.