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Workshop Presenters*
Scheduled for
May 19 Tutor/
Mentor Conference
(updated since March
newsletter)
Bob Boone and Mark Henry
Larson,
Glencoe Study Center,
Workshop topic THE STORY
WITHIN: Using Questions to
Unleash Creativity
Bishop Steve Braxton,
Founder,
Marketplace Ministries, Inc.
Workshop Topic: Stopping The
Violence
Eric Davis and Students
from GCE
Lab School, will
host noon keynote.
Topic: Purpose Based
Learning. Read Eric's
blog.
Charlene Doland,
academic coach at the
suburban learning group
Meliora.
Workshop topic: Using
Project-Based Learning
Kelly Fair,
Polished Pebbles
Girls Mentoring Program
Workshop topic: Blogging to
Promote and Expand Mentoring
Dr. Betty Allen-Green,
Chicago Lawndale Amichi
Mentoring Program and
Rev. Mitchell Sholar,
City Harvest Headstart
Outreach Ministry
Workshop topic: Mentor to
Greatness
Guillermo Guitierrez,
and Fernando Moreno, BUILD,
INC. Workshop topic:
Mentoring Urban Youth
Hannah Holtgeerts, The
Chicago School of
Professional Psychology.
Workshop Topic:
Communication: Youth,
Conflict & the Media
Kristen Strobbe and
Christine Driskill,
Working in the Schools
Workshop Topic: Best
Practices in Program
Delivery and Evaluation
Dr. Jennifer Maddrell,
Designers for Learning
Workshop topic: Attracting
Service-Learners to Support
your Organization
Alison Mroczkowski, Adina
C. Cooper, Claudio Rivera,
graduate students in the
Clinical-Community
Psychology program at
DePaul University.
Workshop topic: Evaluation
of school-based mentoring
programs for underserved
youth
Yasmin Rodriguez and
Clair Unger,
ProjectYES! Topic:
Service Planning: How
to.
Lauren Smith,
Unit 4 School District -
2007-2014,
Champaign-Urbana
Workshop topic: Tweaking
afterschool programs
until they work
Rev. T.W. from
TW's Ministry
Workshop topic: CPS
{Community - Parent -
Student} After School
Program
See complete speaker
list on
conference web site.
* workshop
presenters subject to
change without notice
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Use
Tutor/Mentor Connection
on-line library.
While you can use a search engine like
Google and find information to help you
build and sustain a volunteer-based
tutor/mentor program, you can also use
the T/MC library.
The library has aggregated and
categorized more than 2000 links to
information leaders, volunteers and
donors can use to build a collective
understanding of where and why
tutor/mentor programs are needed, as
well as ways to support them more
consistently for a longer period of
years.
Many of these links focus on
Chicago. If you're collecting
similar information, focused on a different
city, please share the link to your library
and I'll add it. If you'd like to submit a
link to the library just register, log in,
and use the "Add a New Link" feature to
suggest a link. These are moderated and if
approved, your link will be added to the
site.
Information Categories in
Library
Blogs by leading thinkers,
consultants, tutor/mentor programs, etc.
Link to
There are many additional categories
in the library. Spend some time
browsing the sections and bookmark those
you'd like to visit again.
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Easter Weekend Shootings
in Chicago. What can be done?
This is not the
front page from this week's
Chicago SunTimes.
It's from October 1992.
However, in this week's
Chicago media similar calls
for involvement are featured
on the front page and
editorial pages.
In the Tribune's editorial
the headline is "Is Chicago
Helpless?" I say no, then
"but..."
Unless we find ways to keep this
story in front of resource providers
and policy makers on a daily basis,
we won't build enough involvement,
or attract the consistent resources
needed, to provide youth support and
college and career readiness
programs in every neighborhood with
high rates of poverty, violence and
poorly performing schools.
I think youth can take a role in
communicating this message to adults
who should be doing more and I hope
you'll seek me out at the next
Tutor/Mentor Conference (or
connect with me on social media) to
talk of ways to get youth from your
neighborhood involved in this
effort.
See
blog article that I wrote on
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Connecting, Sharing Learning
with Others
Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC, in
partnership with
Becoming We the People
and will be hosting a 41st
Tutor/Mentor Leadership and
Networking Conference on May
19, 2014 at the Metcalfe Federal
Building in Chicago.
We have a great slate of
speakers planning to
host workshops in May. See the
full list at
http://www.tutormentorconference.org/speakers.asp
See conference agenda
at
http://tutormentorconference.org/agenda.asp
Registration is open.
If you are a workshop presenter,
or plan to attend. Register and
add your name to the on-line
attendee list.
While we are able to
draw together a small group for
the Tutor/Mentor Conferences
others are also drawing people
together and focusing on the
same issues.
However, are they using their
events to draw resource
providers directly to youth
tutor/mentor programs in all
parts of the community? That's
part of the goal of the spring
and fall Tutor/Mentor Conference
in Chicago.
The
graphic below is a
map showing intermediaries
in Illinois who focus on the
well-being of youth. Click on
any of the links and go to their
web sites and get involved in
what they are doing. Just two
times a year I've been trying to
motivate leaders from these
groups to join with me and
others involved in
volunteer-based tutoring and/or
mentoring, by participating in
the conferences I've hosted
since 1994.
If you are part of
any of these groups,
please try to
attend the conference.
Please use your social media
to point others to the
conference....and to the
information on our web sites
that show people where and
ways to get involved
supporting the growth of
youth tutoring, mentoring,
arts, college and career
programs in every part of
the city.
Through this newsletter
and several web sites I share
information that others can use
to stimulate on-going
learning and actions that
dramatically increase the flow
of needed resources directly to
all of the organizations in
Chicago and other cities working
to help youth move from birth to
work and adult roles.
Through the May and
November Tutor/Mentor
Conferences, and on-line forums,
we create opportunities for
people from this network to
gather, share ideas and work to
generate greater public
attention and support for
tutor/mentor programs in every
part of the city and suburbs.
This article talks about ways to
make this library of information
available to youth, volunteers
and supporters -
click here
Visit the Tutor/Mentor Institute
Video Channel to see more
ways to use this information.
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What does it take to build and
sustain a "great" tutor/mentor
program?
In
this section of the
Tutor/Mentor Institute
library I host pdf essays
showing steps to start a
program, operating
procedures, and an annual
planning calendar.
This graphic is from
one essay that suggests
a culture within an
organization that enables it
to grow to be great, then
stay great over many years.
These are just some of the
ideas I share based on more
than 40 years involvement
with volunteer based
tutor/mentor programs...and
17 years creating retail
advertising for the
Montgomery Ward
Corporation. The ideas
focus on ways to build and
sustain great programs, and
ways to help make great
programs available in every
high poverty neighborhood of
a city.
This article encourages
teams from corporations to
provide support for program
growth, in similar ways that
corporate office teams
support multiple store
growth.
Most programs
cannot do this without
more consistent help
from resource providers.
This
article talks about
the need to influence
what resource providers
do to support social
purpose organizations
while we also influence
what programs do to have
great impact.
These ideas apply to any
city where there are
high concentrations of
poverty, not just
Chicago. I hope you'll
take a look and share
them with others in your
network.
Do you write
articles with
visualizations like
these? Please
share your link with me
by connecting on Twitter
@tutormentorteam.
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Notices:
Giving With Purpose MOOC,
continuing:
Learn effective philanthropy
strategies and nominate your
favorite
Summer Youth Programs at
Illinois Institute of Technology.
http://summer.iit.edu/
National Conference on
Volunteering and Service,
June 16-18, 2014 -
learn more
Making Learning
Connected MOOC, June 13 - Aug 1,
2014.
Learn more
Illinois Conference on Volunteer
Administration, August
14 in Chicago.
Learn more
You can share your own
announcements by
connecting with me on social
media, or by adding a link to
the web library at
http://tinyurl.com/TMC-Library
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President's Message.
Why Does Nothing Seem to
Change?
At the start of this
newsletter, I posted a copy of
the front page from an October
1992 Chicago SunTimes
article. This story above is
also not from last week's paper.
It is from 1996. Yet, it could
have been last week's feature
story in the local media of any
city in the country.
I've been creating #mapstories since
1993 in an effort to draw more
attention and resources to
tutor/mentor programs in the Chicago
region. You can see some from the
1990s
in this album. You can see
stories from 2008-2011 in this
gallery.
These map-stories show where
a tragedy, like a shooting,
occurred, and intend to
mobilize volunteers and donors to
support the growth of mentor-rich
youth programs in that neighborhood.
They aim to work like retail
advertising that draws customers to
stores every day.
I'm just one person. Until hundreds,
or even thousands, of people are
creating map stories drawing
attention, and resources, to places
where help is needed, too few people
will hear the call and too few will
respond.
 It
will take many years to get enough
people involved to reduce the root
causes of many social problems in
big cities. It will take
many more years to innovate ways to
bring more hope and opportunity to
neighborhoods with high rates of
poverty, poorly performing schools
and street violence.
If we don't trying to mobilize
people to change the future, someone
will be showing map stories like
this in 20 or 40 years. Nothing will
have changed.
While we can meet on-line at
any time to talk about these ideas,
the
Tutor/Mentor Conference in
Chicago May and November is a chance
to meet with me and others who are
involved in this work, and to share
your own ideas.
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Thank you for reading.
Sincerely,
Daniel Bassill
Tutor/Mentor Connection
Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC
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