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The Equity Mentoring Experience, part i

The Equity Mentoring Experience, part i. Lynn Reha, Consultant, Minnesota New Look. Combined Project with New Name. STEM Equity Pipeline Project & Minnesota New Look =. ?. Partners and Sponsors. Introducing. Please provide Your Name Title Educational Entity Consortium

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The Equity Mentoring Experience, part i

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  1. The Equity Mentoring Experience, part i Lynn Reha, Consultant, Minnesota New Look

  2. Combined Project with New Name STEM Equity Pipeline Project & Minnesota New Look = ?

  3. Partners and Sponsors

  4. Introducing... Please provide Your Name Title Educational Entity Consortium Name of mentee/mentor consortium

  5. Webinar topic outline • Mentoring: definition and benefits • Expectations of Project mentoring • Building relationships between mentoring and mentee site • Resources to share

  6. Power of mentoring [Mentoring] …it the third most powerful relationship for influencing human behavior (after family and couple relationships), if it is working. Source: Richard E. Caruso, PhD as quoted in th ASHA Gathering Place Mentoring Manual

  7. Where do we get the word mentor? A.From Yiddish: a “mensch” is a person of high character; mentors assist mentees to cultivate those characteristics. B. From Ancient Greece: Odysseus left his son in the care of his friend Mentor.

  8. Where do we get the word mentor? A. From Yiddish: a “mensch” is a person of high character; mentors assist mentees to cultivate those characteristics. B. From Ancient Greece: Odysseus left his son in the care of his friend Mentor.

  9. Power of mentoring • Employees who have had mentors earn between $5610 and $22,450 more a year than employees who have not had mentors. • Source: Business Finance Magazine, 2000

  10. Why mentoring? Benefits • satisfaction from helping others • deeper and broader knowledge of their own and other organizations • improved results by challenging assumptions • job enrichment and the chance to build wider networks • Increased representation of minority interests • Sources: Institute of Physics http://www.pd-how2.org/3_3.htm#BOM and Tech Republic http://articles.techrepublic.com.com/5100-10878_11-1053697.html

  11. Why mentoring? Synergy: ideas that could not happen except for the combination • Source: Mentor Scout http://www.mentorscout.com/about/mentor-benefits.cfm

  12. Have you ever had a mentor or been a mentor? Please select yes or no.

  13. Was the mentoring program/relationship A. Formal ?B. Informal ?

  14. What were the benefits of that mentoring experience? Please write any benefits of that mentoring experience in the chat window or share verbally.

  15. Expectations and Responsibilities The Mentoring Site The Mentee Site • Contacts the mentee site monthly • Makes the mentee site aware of mentor site’s planning and activities and encourages visit • Communicates with the mentoring site monthly • Makes planning process transparent to mentoring site • Visits mentoring site as able

  16. Points of Discussion for Monthly Calls • Selection of leadership support; development of leadership support • Implementation of steps of 5 Step process • Provision of applicable resources • Overcoming barriers

  17. Ideas to encourage mentor/mentee communication • Add informal meetings to already established events • Share history of local equity activities • Listen to each others’ plans for activities • Find connections between equity and other initiatives like Career Clusters or National Girls Collaborative Project or Minnesota STEM Network.

  18. Ideas to encourage mentor/mentee communication • Attend STEM Equity Pipeline Conference together • Sponsor a speaker together • Find/create resources together • Showcase/equity activities together • Hold collaborative professional development

  19. What are your ideas to effectively and efficiently connect? Please enter your ideas in the chat window or share verbally?

  20. New Resources

  21. Doing What Works Photo credit: Lake Land College

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  24. Questions? Comments? • Eva.Scates-Winston@so.mnscu.edu • al.hauge@state.mn.us

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