Entries by Jean Rhodes

Webinar next Thursday on Restorative Relationships

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REGISTER Online Thursday, October 16, 2014 1:00 PM – 2:15 PM EDT Many of us are fortunate to experience the power of supportive relationships in strengthening our belief in ourselves and connection to our community. But for isolated groups like young offenders, how do we create and scaffold supportive relationships that influence change? If your […]

How teachers (and mentors) can help shy kids learn

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Posted by Rachel Harrison-NYU on September 24, 2014 Researchers find that an evidence-based intervention helps shy children, who are often at risk for poor academic achievement, become more engaged in class work, and in turn improve their math and critical thinking skills. Shy children are described as anxious, fearful, socially withdrawn, and isolated. In the classroom, they […]

Building resilience among black boys

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By Tori DeAngelis  The shooting death of Michael Brown in August was the latest in what’s become an all-too-common story. Brown, 18, an unarmed black teenager, was stopped by white police and shot to death in his hometown of Ferguson, Missouri. The tragedy echoes similar confrontations in which the response appeared to far outweigh the […]

4 hints for mentoring young writers

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By: Beth Stefanick (Kalmbach Publishing Co.), 00439517, Mar2012, Vol. 125, Issue 3 Many writers who have achieved a level of success want to help aspiring scribes in their communities, and mentoring them is one way to do that. Girls Write Now (GWN) has been matching professional women writers with female students in New York City’s public […]

Short Course series available online!

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Thanks to Evan Cutler, the Assistant Director of the MENTOR/UMB Center for Evidence-Based Mentoring, videos of all previous speakers are now available online. They cover the last two courses–one of mentoring youth in the foster care system and one on mentoring in the digital age. Although we recommend all of them, the talk about attachment […]

Kids hit hard by parents’ deployment

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Posted by Bob Roseth-UW  U. WASHINGTON (US) — When parents are deployed overseas, the adolescent children left behind can suffer from the invisible wounds of war—impaired well-being and other mental problems. “There is a lot of research about veterans and active-duty soldiers, and how they cope or struggle when they return from a deployment,” says […]

The many mentors of Steve Carell

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  My second-grade teacher was named Mr. Blackman, and he pretty much sent me on my way as an actor. I remember we were doing the Indians and the Pilgrims at Plymouth Rock. I was a Native American in a canoe, and I was rowing. It was all mime. And I remember rowing and then switching […]

Learning from the field of work-based mentoring.

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For decades, the fields of youth mentoring and work-based mentoring have operated on parallel tracks–covering the same terrain but somehow unaffected by of each other. With few exceptions (e.g., the excellent  Blackwell Handbook of Mentoring, which is edited by Professors Tammy Brown and Lillian Eby), disciplinary boundaries have gotten in the way of learning what others are doing […]