UCR Staff Assembly’s Post

Kudos to member Centre College for placing peer mentoring and skill development at the center of first-year student success! The Finding Your Centre (FYC) program matches new students with a first-year mentor and includes a weekly class designed to familiarize them with every aspect of college life. More on FYC, including insights from the student perspective: https://lnkd.in/esG-r7b6

Have you guys considered VIRTUAL MENTORSHIP? Probably not, because I think we're coining the term! Mentors are some of the most important people in our lives! They help us learn how things actually work, beyond academic theory. This helps us avoid costly mistakes from not realizing that we don't know something until we find out the hard way. Doing it virtually adds even more benefits! 1. You don't have to find a mentor or convince them to work with you. 2. Every mentor is vetted, so you know they are qualified. 3. You get to learn from every mentor in the system!! 4. You can avoid long, meandering conversations. 5. Time and location become irrelevant. This is what we built with Epee Education (www.epee-education.com) in order to help young adults learn about the topics that schools don't teach. Our mentors' experiences can save you from making costly, avoidable mistakes early in your life and career! #virtualeducation #youngprofessionals #youngadults #mentorship #mentor

Theme: Reflection and Action Planning Seek Mentorship: Connect with mentors who can guide you in implementing your action plan. They can provide valuable insights, advice, and support. Have you spoken to a mentor about your action plan to achieve your academic goals? Learn more about Minority Graduate Student Group- Project Graduation - https://lnkd.in/gbUzEXTQ

Mentorship can be an important part of anyone’s academic journey, but especially for students in graduate programs. Check out this video from David Feldon, the Associate Vice Provost for Graduate Studies at USU about how to successfully complete a mentorship program and make sure you have the best graduate program that you can! https://lnkd.in/gNA9rYMD

I have a problem, maybe you can help... According to feedback, the most valued aspect of The Earth Prize is the 1:1 video mentoring sessions between high school participants and university mentors. For the first three years, we offered these sessions exclusively to the 10 finalists, while the rest of the mentoring was conducted through a text-based question and answer format. By offering 1:1 mentoring to every team from the beginning of registration through the submission phase, The Earth Prize experience will become far more enriching for students. Their ideas will be more robust, and everyone will benefit! So, here's the problem: 1k+ teams of high school kids all with registered emails 50+ university mentors all with registered emails A website we can get them to login into... ...we need a custom page where teams can submit calendar-based requests for mentoring, along with a brief description of their problem. Additionally, we need a separate page where our mentors can indicate their available times and choose to mentor teams whose problems they feel equipped to address. So, we use Calendly & Zoom when its 1:1, but this becomes 1,000:50, all:all - is there an off the shelf solution? Does someone know something we could use?? HELP! With thanks!! 🙏

As we wrap up National Mentoring Month, we want to recognize the student mentors who work with the Bepko Learning Center at IUPUI. These students provide academic support in courses they have already successfully completed. BLC mentors assist their peers by providing them with activities and tips to improve comprehension. Students who seek out a BLC mentor tend to receive higher grades than those who don't. See the impact that these mentors make on campus here: https://lnkd.in/ghw9VQ34 #StudentSuccess #MentoringProgram

School's Out For Summer!! School districts are recruiting new teachers, but is it enough? Want to increase retention rates of Special Education teachers? Use Comprehensive Mentoring Programs! Districts must establish comprehension onboarding programs for new teachers that include mentoring. Mentoring support will help new teachers acclimate to the school culture and expectations and reduce feelings of isolation. Often, special education teachers feel like the "lone ranger." They don't necessarily fit into a general education Professional Learning Community (PLC) and may be the only special education teacher on campus.   New teachers need an assigned mentor, not the more experienced teacher down the hall. Districts must establish comprehensive mentoring programs that include full-time mentors. Mentoring programs are successful when assigned mentors regularly support teachers, meet teachers where they are in their development, and provide full-time support. Mentoring is not about a "gotcha" moment but more of an "I see you" moment to provide individualized support. 

🎙️In the latest episode of #SwimmingUpstream, Strategos Partner Tom Luna spoke with #Virginia Superintendent of Public Instruction Dr. Lisa Coons about her professional journey, high-dosage tutoring, and more! 🔗 If you missed it, listen here: https://lnkd.in/gPnBhxEG In this clip, Dr. Coons explains the concept of high-dosage tutoring. She emphasizes the importance of targeted support for students, focusing on their specific needs within the context of their current grade-level content, rather than remediating earlier curriculum. This approach ensures that #students receive meaningful help without being held back by past gaps in their learning. Dive into the full conversation to learn more about high-dosage tutoring and its impact on student success. Don’t miss it! #Education #EducationLeadership #Tutoring #StudentSuccess #HighDosageTutoring #EdChat #Learning #Teaching

Mentor Collective works for you while you enjoy well-deserved time off! Our platform allows students to continue communicating with relevant peer mentors during academic breaks, which means less anxiety during periods of rest and a more focused approach for students who may be uncertain about their place and performance at your institution. Here's what we've learned from administrator activity in our dashboard just after the winter break. Administrators... 🤳 Logged in on their first day back for timely student updates and data 🚀 Spent a portion of what was likely a busy first day back nurturing their institution's mentorship strategy 🥳 Realized their mentorship program kept going and kept returning value while they were on vacation 🥰 Took the time to say good things to us, because they were able to hit the ground running when they returned to school 📚 Can focus on intentional student follow-ups with the relevant information the Mentor Collective platform collected on student challenges while they were away Learn more about how to make mentorship part of your student success strategy for fostering sense of belonging and increasing retention at https://hubs.ly/Q02fkVZ80

Want a fresh perspective on how the Parent Mentor Program is supporting students, parents, and schools? Take a look at what April Clay, a new member of our Parent Mentor team at Washington Elementary, had to say about her first year in the program. #mentorship #leadershipdevelopment