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Welcome to the Tutor/Mentor Leadership Conference Archive
In this section you can view
presentations and the speaker and workshop list from past conferences.
For
information on the next Leadership Conference, click here.
Tutor/Mentor eConference
Home Page
E-mail and web site
addresses are provided, although some may be out of date for past conferences. We
encourage you to contact these speakers when you are looking for ideas and
trainers for your own tutor/mentor programs or networks.
The Tutor/Mentor Connection's vision is to create an organized structure that
recruits thousands of workplace to serve as "tutors, mentors, leaders
and change-agents" in neighborhood programs that seek to help inner-city
kids stay in school, stay safe in the non-school hours, and be in jobs and
starting careers by age 25.
The
Tutor/Mentor Leadership Conference is part of an ongoing sequence of
events intended to draw visibility, volunteers, training, technology
and dollars into every program in every poverty area of Chicago.
The concept for a T/MC conference originated in the mid 1970's when
leaders of Cabrini-Green area programs began meeting regularly to share
ideas and train volunteers. While these meetings offered a variety of
workshops, they also offered tremendous networking opportunities, which
were essential to helping leaders stay motivated and to prevent
burn-out.
The T/MC Conference series was developed as part of an overall strategy
to support the development of ALL tutor/mentor programs in Chicago. A
spring 1994 Tutor/Mentor Connection survey drew responses from more than
120 programs. More than half indicated they had little or now contact
with other programs and more than 90 percent said they'd come together
for a learning/networking conference if it were centrally located and at
a low cost. This led to the first conference in 1994.
While 70 people attended the first conference, response was so great a
second conference was held in November 1994. Nearly 200 people attended,
and two conferences per year have been held ever since then. Today’s
conferences average 150 to 200 participants. The T/MC believes that this
number can grow to more than 500 per conference because of the central
location of Chicago and the key issues the Conference addresses. The
T/MC also believes there are opportunities to connect even more
tutor/mentor stakeholders via e-conferencing.
The Conference continues to fulfill its initial purpose while also
serving as a focal point to generate publicity and bring awareness to
the after-school, tutor/mentor movement. Participants now come from
throughout the country and many meet in the months between conferences
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goal of the Tutor/Mentor Leadership Conference is to share information
options that help each individual tutor/mentor location become a better
"business" of sustaining comprehensive, long-term mentoring
which results in youth entering careers, and mentors who become leaders
and change-agents. Each conference offers workshops on planning,
evaluation, recruitment and training, marketing and development, as well
as specific topics related to tutoring and/or mentoring of youth at
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Conference
Objectives
1. Draw leaders, volunteers and stakeholders from more than 150 agencies
together for networking and information sharing
2. Draw business and philanthropy partners into on-going learning and
partnership with tutor/mentor leaders
3. Provide a vision for comprehensive, long-term mentoring that leads
youth to careers, while offering a range of workshops that give
participants pragmatic tips they can put to work in their own programs.
4. Build trust and relationships among stakeholders that generate
partnership and information sharing during the months between each
conference.
5. Build awareness of on-line learning and networking resources and
motivate a growing number of participants to use these tools for
capacity improvement.
If your organization or business would like to be part of future
conferences or other T/MC activities, email tutormentor2@earthlink.net
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Note: many of the presentations on
this site are
created in Power Point. Internet Explorer 4 and above are
recommended for viewing presentations. Once you open a
presentation you can click a view window in lower right corner
to see full-screen animated presentations. To start the
animation and to move from screen to screen just single-click on
your "enter" button.
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Presentations from May 07
Conference |
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Planning
Process of Owens Corning and University of Toledo Mentorship
Task Force |
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| Defining Terms: |
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mentoring mean different things to different people. T/MC seeks to build
community of people focusing on needs of youth in poverty, who have a
common definition of the terms tutoring, mentoring and
education-to-careers. (Defining Terms
PDF |
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Presentations
from past
eConferences |
Social Network
Analysis: Applied to formation of
Tutor/Mentor Learning and Action Networks
SNA
Overview (Power Point) |
Results of
Tutor/Mentor Survey:
Most
Important Needs
(this is a PDF presentation)
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Cooperative Learning Evaluation Form
Web-based
self assessment
This web-based self-assessment of transferable skills in tutoring and
mentoring is relevant to both parties. Why not try it out and take a
test? You will not be told your "score" - the idea is to
sharpen your thinking about your interactions. It also offers an
evaluation tool, for exploring
the effectiveness of peer learning interactions.
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