Mentoring

Sky’s life experience

Challenging doesn’t even begin to describe Sky’s life experience: loss upon loss, instability and difficult family relationships, poor decisions, growing … Read more

Acts of compassion

Be Challenged: The importance of compassion in mentoring: This month, we’re sharing some ways that you can show compassion to your … Read more

Be Affirmed: Verbally

Last week, we talked about the importance of being intentional with our encouragement. Here’s another way that we can offer … Read more

Monday Mentoring Minute

Be Encouraged (being available!) After winter break, one student came to school and appeared to be pretty upset about something. … Read more

Your Empowering Presence

As mentors, we can’t underestimate the power of presence. Every week, we have the power to bring a little hope and encouragement to our students. For some of them, we may be the only adult that they can sit and talk with for an hour. And, that means that our time with them truly has the power to shape their lives both now and into the future. Here are a few ways you can be an empowering presence this month:

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