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Digging into our own identity at first was powerful.

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Getting better at affirming and making suggestions on how to improve

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Having the program established has been wonderful.

Having the program be student focused and community centered

The involvement from the zone

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Text: Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain

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Meetings where mentors and mentees were both present were more valuable. Everyone got the same information and had a chance to interact more. Conversations felt more valuable/authentic. The flexibility and freedom over meetings with our mentees were helpful. Not being tied to doing specific things each month was helpful because mentees and mentors could talk about issues that were important at that time. It was more individualized.

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Consistency schedule

Holding us accountable but not micromanaging

Mentees were in our same building.

Engaging text and collaboration

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Having meetings with both mentors and mentees to have common ground.

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Meetings with the mentees! Focus more on what the mentees needed. In person was best for sure. Grouped together too was really nice. Structure of twice a month made it more helpful to be engaging. PLC on special education was helpful to educators who are not special educators.

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-More time meeting as an entire group so everyone gets the information together

-Administration respected our time commitment to the program

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Making topics more focused on ELL. Need more with behavior management. Increase in need for family engagement.

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Wish we had the same prep as our mentee

Wish I had some talking points with mentee

Clear role with administration

Mentee was getting different feedback from admin/staff than mentors

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Less on the agenda to allow for more depth of conversation.

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Smaller mentor/mentee groups, sometimes it felt the group was too large

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To discuss the challenges and victories mentors had with their mentees and how to problem solve

Logistics of meeting with mentees within the school

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Find a location that is not Duggan (difficult to hear)

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Less Mentor Meetings and more meetings with both mentors and mentees

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zoom meetings/ especially in the winter

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In person was more engaging. Good work by the team. When just mentors keep it Zoom. When whole group in-person is great. Long days for some people after the in-person meetings are done. Could we separate out the mentors and mentees by buildings especially if there are multiple. Most lessons were helpful.

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Start later to allow for everyone to get to the location

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Frequency was appropriate. It did feel like a lot but appropriate.

Does this program mirror the DESE requirement for mentorship or is there a way that it will?

Have in advance what is coming up at the meetings we want to be more prepared

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-Once a month meetings were good

-wanting to make sure mentees are able to make it to the meetings

-mentees and mentors should be in the same building if possible

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Too many mentor meeting and too many mentees who were not able to make the meetings (maybe the people with prior commitments such as school should wait to be in the program)

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Structure, predicatbility

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More training on the actual process of being a mentor, more connection to the work of the mentee

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Less topics per meeting so not as rushed