Mentoring Matters

A Toolkit for Organizing and Operating Student Advisory Programs

By (author) Mark Benigni, Sheryll Petrosky

Publication date:

16 January 2011

Length of book:

110 pages

Publisher

R&L Education

ISBN-13: 9781607099390

As schools are trying to connect with their students and assure that every student has an adult mentor in the building, the need for school-based mentoring programs could not be greater. When creating our school district's mentoring programs, we could not find age-appropriate, current, user-friendly mentoring lessons. With limited financial and human resources, schools are searching for a practical, innovative, and trial-tested resource. Here it is!
Mentoring Matters is the action plan with all the resources necessary to launch a school-based mentoring program. The forty-five thirty-minute lessons will serve as the foundation of your mentoring program. From Facebook to bullying to teenage stressors, we cover it all. We live it with you everyday! We have eliminated all the hurdles and obstacles and created a handbook for mentoring success.

Part 1 Acknowledgements
Chapter 2 Preface
Chapter 3 Introduction
Part 4 Activities
Chapter 5 I'd like to get to know you
Chapter 6 Hello, my name is ...
Chapter 7 Mastering our mission
Chapter 8 Where am I going? How will I get there?
Chapter 9 Letís get better acquainted
Chapter 10 Getting to know me
Chapter 11 Do you hear me?
Chapter 12 Are you still listening?
Chapter 13 Talk this way
Chapter 14 Shhh...
Chapter 15 Make the right choice
Chapter 16 Letís see if what I thought I was doing matches up with what I did
Chapter 17 Get SMART
Chapter 18 What is important to me?
Chapter 19 Pay it forward #1
Chapter 20 Pay it forward #2
Chapter 21 Celebrating our similarities
Chapter 22 A leader please!
Chapter 23 Here today, gone tomorrow
Chapter 24 Rules are rules ... or are they?
Chapter 25 Can we both be right?
Chapter 26 I see it ... I hear it ... I feel it ...
Chapter 27 Follow the leader ... good or bad?
Chapter 28 What makes me like you?
Chapter 29 Iíve got the spirit.
Chapter 30 Do you see it my way?
Chapter 31 Beating the bully
Chapter 32 Friend request
Chapter 33 Think before you speak
Chapter 34 We are family
Chapter 35 R E S P E C T
Chapter 36 Man in the mirror
Chapter 37 Houston, we have a problem
Chapter 38 Embrace change
Chapter 39 On your mark, get set, GO!
Chapter 40 I'm just teasing
Chapter 41 I'm ready to explode
Chapter 42 I am still stressing
Chapter 43 You're in charge
Chapter 44 Hey, thanks
Chapter 45 See the glass half full
Chapter 46 If you can dream it, you can achieve it
Chapter 47 Am I heading in the right direction?
Chapter 48 Who am I?
Chapter 49 I can get you to say anything

Mark Benigni and Sheryll Petrosky get to the heart of what it takes to improve school climate in Mentoring Matters. This book is a great "How To" manual for implementing a program to personalize the high school experience for all students by building real connections among students and staff through a carefully crafted set of experiences.