Contributors’ Blog

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

By Jean Rhodes In an important new Annual Review of…

How Mentors Support Young Adults as They Gain Awareness of Societal Inequality and Engage in Social Action

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Authors: Lidia Y. Monjaras-Gaytan & Bernadette Sánchez Young…

Winner takes all?: Mentoring programs in the age of inequality

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By Jean Rhodes In his recent best-selling book, Winner Takes…

Building Relationships with Diverse Learners

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Meet Laura Tollis, an 8th-grade teacher who co-teaches math,…

On Methods: What’s a meta-analysis, anyways?

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  by Adar Ben-Eliyahu, Assistant Professor, University…

The youth mental health crisis is real, but teachers can’t solve it alone

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By David B. Shapiro and Stephanie M. Jones, Reprinted from…

The end of the Build Back Better is a gut punch to kids and poor familie

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By Stephen Seligman (OpEd, reposted from the San Francisco Chronicle) On…

When COVID robbed children of their friendships, learning suffered

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By Caitlin McDermott-Murphy, Reprinted from The Harvard Gazette After…

15 Strategies and Tips to Guide Youth in the Months Ahead

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By Robin Cox, Reprinted from Mentoring Matters Recently…

When relationships come first in schools, success follows

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By Jean Eddy and David Shapiro, Reprinted from Youth Today After…

Scaling mentoring conversations to diversify talent pipelines: An interview with Mentor Spaces’ Chris Motley

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By: Julia Freeland Fisher, Reprinted from the Christensen Institute In…

Mentoring expert, Lindsey Weiler, talks about the importance of identifying blindspots in youth mentoring

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Experts’ Corner: Mentoring in the era of COVID-19 From the…