Contributors’ Blog

How Mentoring Can Shift from “Beating the Odds” to Changing the Odds

By Jean Rhodes In an important new Annual Review of…

Teaching Youth to Recruit Supportive Adults

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 by Sarah Schwartz The story of 15-year-old Davion Only has…

Bill Russell played ultimate mentor role 

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By MARTY MARTINEZ and DAVID SHAPIRO reprinted from MassLive This…

Methods Corner: Let’s talk about reliability and validity

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by Adar Ben-Eliyahu, Ph.D. In evaluations of mentoring programs,…

Alice Munro, transference, and mentoring relationships

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In the wake of Alice Munro winning the Nobel Prize in Literature,…

What is connected learning?: Implications for mentoring

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by Sarah Schwartz, Ph.D.,Postdoctoral Fellow, MacArthur Foundation,…

Amachi’s Expansion to Serve Military Youth

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by Reverend Dr. W. Wilson Goode, Sr. “When (a) family…

What is Your Evidence-Based Mentoring IQ? The Winner is…

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by David DuBois I apologize for the delay in following up…

Politicians and constituents: Here’s why we do research (and why you should care)

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I’m from Texas, where we have our fair share of politicians…

POLL: What short course would most interest YOU?

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Our first-ever Short-Course @ UMass Boston (9/30-10/1o: Mentoring…

Practice Corner: What is the role of natural mentoring?

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by Marty Martinez   As an advocate for quality-based mentoring…

A call to action on behalf of our nation’s youth

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By Rev. W. Wilson Goode, Sr. We are in an interesting season…