Mentoring provides a recipe for collaboration
by Linda Barrington Mentoring Committee co-chair, Wisconsin mentor I love baking cakes and pies and cookies, and I need a plan, a recipe to follow — faithfully. My husband, on the other hand, likes to cook. He’ll start with a recipe and then experiment, changing some ingredients, removing others and adding more spices. Lasagna, for...
Watch ‘Fostering the Connection with the Principal’ to be ready for meeting your mentee’s administrators
Learn about “Fostering the Connection with the Principal” by watching the 30-minute webinar that Linda Barrington presented. You can watch the webinar on YouTube or you can go the the blog’s Webinar page to watch. Linda’s webinar was specifically targeted to mentors in the JEA Mentoring Program who are meeting with principals as part of...
Fred Hassan promotes ‘pull’ system for mentoring instead of ‘push’
by Julie Dodd JEA Mentor Committee Fred Hassan, chairman of Bausch & Lomb, offered good advice for mentors in an interview for the New York Times’s Corner Office. He was asked how he has been able to mentor employees who have gone on to become CEOs of other companies. Hassan: “I did a lot of...
PBS NewsHour highlights New Teacher Center’s success with new teachers
by Julie Dodd JEA Mentor Committee More than 300,000 veteran teachers nationally retired between 2004 and 2008. Nationally $7 billion is spent every year to recruit, hire and train new teachers. About 50 percent of all new teachers leave the profession within three to five years. All of these were statistics shared by reporter Ash-har...