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Happy New Year! and Best
Wishes to every Youth
Organization Leader,
Volunteer and Supporter
as you Celebrate
National Mentoring Month
and begin 2016
Activities.
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Celebrate
Mentoring
During
National
Mentoring
Month.
Dig
Deeper
into
Information
and
Ideas.
The ideas
shared in
this monthly
newsletter
can be used
by resource
providers,
political
leaders, non
profit
leaders,
volunteers
and youth to
help
mentor-rich
programs
thrive in
all of the
neighborhoods
where they
are most
needed.
There's a
lot of
information
so I try to
send this
only once a
month.
Spend a
little time
each week
reading the
articles and
following
the links.
Use in group
discussions
with people
who are
concerned
about the
same issues.
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newsletter
does not
format
correctly in
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or if you
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Celebrate
Mentoring
During
January
Mentoring
Month
Many forms of
volunteer
involvement
include youth
mentoring
components.
January is National
Mentoring Month.
Visit
this page to
find details and
national events
that you can use
to celebrate
mentoring and
draw support to
your own
organization and
others during
January 2016.
Visit the
Illinois
Mentoring
Partnership page
to learn about
local
activities.
As you
celebrate, look
for ideas that
increase your
reach and
impact. Build
better
information
bases.
Dig deeper.
Involve your
entire
organization. I
posted
this article
during the first
week of January,
encouraging
volunteers,
donors, program
leaders and more
to build
information
bases that match
type of program
and mentoring
strategy with
needs of youth
being served by
each strategy.
Visit
web sites and
Facebook pages.
Here's my list
of Chicago area
youth serving
organizations
that include
various forms of
tutoring and/or
mentoring.
Here's a list of
the same
organizations,
pointing to
their Facebook
pages.
With
this concept
map I
point to
other web
sites where
volunteers,
parents
and/or
donors can
search to
find youth
serving
programs in
different
zip codes of
Illinois and
the country.
This is a
link to a
concept map
that points
volunteers,
youth,
parents and
educators to
web sites
that can be
used for
homework
help,
tutoring,
mentoring
and
learning.
Help
keep this
information
up-to-date.
If you know
of other
programs in
the Chicago
area who
offer
organized,
on-going,
tutor/mentor
activities,
send me the
link at
tutormentor2@earthlink.net
Help
programs
tell their
stories.
As you look
at web sites
you'll see
some
organizations
do a great
job of
showing why
they are
needed and
what they
do, and how
volunteers
and donors
can help.
Others don't
do this as
well. If
you're a
volunteer
with
communications,
marketing,
technology,
social media
skills,
reach out
and offer
your talent
to help
programs
tell their
stories more
effectively.
In some
cases this
might also
involve
helping
programs
re-define
their
strategies
and find the
resources
needed to
build and
sustain
great
programs.
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More
Resources to
Support
Deeper
Learning
What
are your
volunteers
reading? Where
are they
learning? Are
donors
connecting with
you in on-line
communities?
I used the above
graphic in this
Logic Model PDF.
It is one of
many strategy
presentations in
the Tutor/Mentor
Institute, LLC
library.
Recently some of
my friends on
the Internet
have been
sharing ideas
about using
annotation to
support deeper
learning.
What's
annotation? You
do it when you
highlight a
section of an
article or book.
You do it when
you write a note
in the margin of
a document. Now
you can do it
using online
tools. You can
also teach
students you
work with to do
this.
These
are a few recent
articles I
encourage you to
read:
Annotation: A
Learning &
Collaboration
tool -
click here
What Do We Need
to Be Thinking
About? Helping
Urban Youth -
click here
The Poor, and
the Hopeless
Don't Vote. How
do we Change
That? -
click here
I've continued
to build this
library over the
past 40 years
and it's been
available on the
Internet since
1998. I point to
more than 2000
other web sites,
with information
leaders can use
to build strong
programs, and
that volunteers
and resource
providers can
use to help
strong programs
grow. If every
youth serving
organization
created its own
"learning
culture" then
its students
would also be
spending time on
a regular basis
drawing from
information in
the library to
support their
own efforts as
they move
through school
and into adult
lives.
Many of the
articles on the
Tutor/Mentor
Blog point
to information
in the library.
I add to this
every week.
Is your
web site
providing enough
information to
motivate
volunteers,
donors and
leaders to
support you?
Visit this
Shopper Guide
PDF and
consider what
types of
information you
could be sharing
on your web
site.
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Use
Maps As Part
of Resource
and Program
Development
Strategies.
Teach youth,
volunteers
to create
map stories.
A growing number
of data
visualization
resources are
available to
your team.
Since 1994 I've
used maps to
show areas of
Chicago with
high
concentrations
of poverty,
poorly
performing
schools,
violence and
other
indicators, in
an effort to
focus attention,
and resources to
support the
growth of
well-organized,
mentor-rich,
tutoring,
mentoring
programs in each
of these areas.
In the
Tutor/Mentor
blog you can
find dozens of
stories which
include maps
I've created.
At the
MappingforJustice
blog, you
can find links
to a growing
number of
mapping
platforms that
can be used to
build a case for
government,
business and
philanthropic
support of youth
serving
organizations in
different
neighborhoods.
I add
new links every
month, so I
encourage you to
subscribe so you
receive the
latest updates.
I believe that
leaders from all
sectors need to
be involved in
helping youth
serving and jobs
training
programs be
available in
every high
poverty
neighborhood.
Leaders need to
use maps, the
way Generals use
maps, to make
sure programs
are in all
places where
they are needed,
and to develop
supply systems
to make sure
each program is
well supported.
I think young
people can learn
to use maps, and
build map
stories, and to
share these on
social media in
ways that build
greater
attention, and
draw more adults
into
conversations
that lead to a
better flow of
resources and
services helping
youth and
families
overcome the
challenges of
poverty, racism
and inequality.
However,
educators,
volunteers and
program leaders
need to
facilitate
programs that
engage young
people in this
information, at
least until they
are able to lead
the process
themselves.
Below
are links to a
few articles
that illustrate
this goal:
* Using maps of
political
districts in
violence
prevention
strategy -
link
* Chicago
Community Areas:
Youth In Poverty
-
link
* Planning Cycle
- War on Poverty
-
link
* Role of
Leaders -
link
* Mentor Role in
a Larger
Strategy -
link
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Follow up to
2016 State
Of the Union
Address
What's next
for President
Obama?
As I watched
last week's
State of the
Union Address, I
thought back to
articles I've
posted,
encouraging the
President and
elected leaders
to provide
on-going,
distributed
support, to
youth serving
organizations in
high poverty
neighborhoods of
Chicago and
other cities.
Here's
an article I
wrote in May
2014. Here's
article I
wrote in January
2010. Here's
article I
posted on
LinkedIN last
week.
You can search
the Tutor/Mentor
blog and find
similar articles
posted since I
launched the
blog in 2005.
You can find
printed
newsletters
from the 1990s,
with the same
messages.
I use the
graphic above to
show four key
times each year
when our
collective
voices,
and the voices
of high profile
leaders,
might result in
greater response
from volunteers,
donors, media
and those we
need involved in
helping us build
and sustain
strong youth
serving
organizations.
This
video , this
animation,
and
this pdf
describe this
year-round
strategy and
these key
events.
Imagine
if this strategy
had been
happening in
Chicago every
year since I
launched the
Tutor/Mentor
Connection in
1993.
I think there
would be more
volunteer-based
tutor/mentor
programs
operating in all
of the high
poverty
neighborhoods of
Chicago, and
many would have
stories showing
long-term impact
on lives of kids
and volunteers.
Now imagine
you're in the
year 2030. Will
poverty,
inequality and
the distribution
of needed,
long-term,
tutoring,
mentoring and
learning
programs be any
different?
Will former
Presidents, like
President Obama,
embrace, and
lead this
strategy?
Maybe. If you
read this,
rewrite it, and
share it with
people in your
own network who
might do the
same.
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Tutor/Mentor
Leadership &
Networking
Conference
History
Map shows
organizations
who've
participated in
Chicago
conference, from
1994 through
2014.
I hosted a first
Tutor/Mentor
Leadership &
Networking
Conference
in May 1994,
with workshops
presented by
people who were
leading Chicago
area
tutor/mentor
programs.
WITS,
Cluster Tutoring
Program,
4th Presbyterian
Church
Tutoring
Program,
Highsight,
and
Cabrini-Green
Tutoring Program
(now Tutoring
Chicago) were
among 70 people
who attended.
Many felt it was
a success. So we
did another in
November 1994
and 200 people
attended. I've
hosted these
conferences
every six months
since then.
Recently a
volunteer from
Indiana uploaded
attendance list
data from every
past conference,
to create a map
that shows where
participants
came from, and
what sector they
represent. You
can see that
people have come
from all over
the country.
Read
this article
to find links
and learn more
While I
did not host the
conference in
November 2016, I
am working with
participants
from past
conferences to
bring it back in
May/June 2016.
Watch for
updates on the
Tutor/Mentor
Conference
web site.
In the
meantime, I'll
continue to
share ideas via
blogs, concept
maps, this
newsletter, and
on-line forums
with a goal of
inspiring more
people
throughout the " village"
to adopt some of
these ideas in
their own
strategies.
Read some of my
articles
featuring
cMOOCs.
I think
this offers an
exciting way for
volunteers,
donors,
programs,
researchers,
etc. to connect
online.
If you'd like to
meet on-line, or
face-to-face,
for a tour of
the on-line
resources of the
Tutor/Mentor
Institute, LLC,
please reach out
to me via social
media or one of
the links shown
below.
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Help Me
Continue to
Host and
Share these
Ideas
Thank you to
those who sent
financial
support in
December and
throughout 2015.
While I'm not
operating as a
501-c-3 non
profit, I am
operating with
no source of
revenue to
maintain the
information I
point to in this
newsletter.
Thus, I continue
to seek help.
Visit
this page
and look at the
range of
information,
ideas and
resources made
available to
Chicago by the
Tutor/Mentor
Institute, LLC
Compare this to
what other
Mentoring and
Tutoring leaders
and youth
intermediaries
offer on their
own web sites.
Few show the
same type of
information, or
as extensive a
web
library...unless
they have links
pointing to my
sites, which
most do not.
Your support is
needed to help
me continue this
work.
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