ABC-7 recently ran a great piece about MASA, our partner organization that works primarily with elementary and middle school students.

Watch the segment here!

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After much ado, we have posted video testimonials on the Gallery page. Check 'em out!

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Please join us this Friday May 14th, 2010 for our Fin Del Año Fiesta!

There will be food, drinks, a student performance, music, dancing and much more!

Feel free to invite and bring anyone who is interested in learning more about our fantastic MexEd programs.

TIME: 5:30 - 7:30pm

WHERE:
Baruch School of Public Affairs
135 E. 22nd Street
3rd Floor Conference Room

For more information please contact Giovanni Silva at 915-252-6736

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“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” Winston Churchill

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WITH the end of the school year rapidly approaching us and summer-time around the corner, students will soon be one step closer to graduation. The graduation ceremony is also called Commencement: the beginning! Your mentee will benefit from thinking, talking, and learning about this moment. Whether continuing onto college or looking for a job, you can help her or him make a better-informed choice.

As a mentor you can provide your mentee with the information, insight and fortitude necessary to help them explore and articulate their career goals. A simple conversation about their goals, talents, abilities, interests, and dislikes can really help a mentee get the wheels rolling.

Furthermore, when students have an idea as to what they would like to do for a career, they will be concurrently developing positive, concrete problem-solving skills.

Although this process can be challenging for all parties involved, we have to keep in mind that us mentors know a lot more than we think we know, especially since we have already been through this process.

You can always start with the basics, general information about: job availability, salaries, years of schooling necessary, financial aid, etc. One great resource on this is the Brooklyn Public Library’s online Career databases: http://brooklynpubliclibrary.org/eresources/#Career-Career Cruising has info in English and Spanish around careers and recommended paths to them. Try it out, it’s pretty fun. If you don’t have a Brooklyn library card, you can write me and I can share one with you. www.Glassdoor.com has info on salaries, reviews, and interviews with people who actually work in a given field. If you find a website with good resources, post it on our facebook group! (http://www.facebook.com/#!/group.php?gid=148726435798&ref=ts)

Now is the time-no matter what grade your mentee is in- to start facilitating the development of their vision for their future.

Until next time,

Prof. Rob Smith

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Mentoring is a tough commitment to make, and we know it takes lots of inspiration to get through life as it is. So, it is our hope that these little quotes will serve as a reminder of just how inspirational all you mentors are to us at MexEd. Thank you for everything that you do and please feel free to post your favorite inspirational quotes.





"Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air. " - John Quincy Adams, 1767-1848

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Professor Smith’s Tip of the Month

School life is full of expectations by teachers and other students about how to be; home life is full of expectations by parents about how to be.

Those pressures-and the gap between them-can make teenagers feel stressed and unsupported.

That’s where a mentor can come in. By being aware of both school and family friction-and by physically visiting both locations-and of course by also talking about any tension that exists between the two, the mentee can feel very relieved, in a word, normal.

Ahhhhhhh, the comfort of normalcy in teenage life!

So, if you want to build up some solid trust in your relationship, visit your mentee at their home. Their parents will also really appreciate the gesture.

And if you can, see if you can meet them after school once in a while. It’ll make the kids feel like they’re really important in your life.

Until Next Time,

Prof. Rob Smith

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