[nabs-l] High school outreach

[Angela fowler]

Antonio,
Trust me, I wouldn't have someone sit down in a meeting with someone for an
hour and call that mentoring. That's casual acquaintenceship. 
	You say a mentoring program historically hasn't worked? How was it
implemented? Was it run by the national organization, or by the individual
states? Did it fail because of lack of funds? Poor managing? Lack of
available mentors/students? There's a hundred ways a program could fail.
Manage things a bit differently, and you might have a whole different
outcome. 

-----Original Message-----
From: nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf
Of Antonio Guimaraes
Sent: Friday, May 15, 2009 9:25 AM
To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] High school outreach

Angela,

NABS has tried the mentoring thing before, and maybe even still does it for
convention attendees.

It hasn't historically worked well to my knowledge, because I think, we as
an organization don't define mentoring the way that it should be defined,
and a program conducted.

I will expand on what i mean on a later post, but mentoring is more than
here is the mentor, and the mentee/student, you guys go do your thing.

there needs to be a defined set of goals and expectations for the mentoring
relationship, and you don't mentor someone by sitting next to them at a
meeting for one evening.

Just my thoughts,

Antonio M. Guimaraes Jr.

ReadBooks Coordinator
National Braille Press
888 965-8965, ext 40.
aguimaraes at nbp.org

----- Original Message -----
From: "Angela fowler" <fowlers at syix.com>
To: "'National Association of Blind Students mailing list'" 
<nabs-l at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 13, 2009 5:55 PM
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] High school outreach


>I love the idea of a mentoring program like the one you guys are talking
> about. I think, however, that these programs are best handled by the
> individual state divisions. How can NABS encourage the states to put
> something like this together?
> Just thinking about California, and how we could best enact this
> plan. The first thing we would need is a list of all the colleges and
> universities in the state, and how many blind students attend each one. 
> Then
> we would have to contact these students and, maybe also offering them some
> incentive, determine whether or not they would be willing to participate 
> in
> the program. Then we would need to compile a database of the people who 
> are
> willing. Once that is done, we market, market, market the program to high
> school juniors and seniors throughout the state. When high schoolers are 
> in
> need of a mentor, they contact us, we pair them with someone, and then
> follow up with both parties to make sure all is going well.
> What do you guys think?
> Angela
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org] On 
> Behalf
> Of Liz Bottner
> Sent: Wednesday, May 13, 2009 1:00 PM
> To: 'National Association of Blind Students mailing list'
> Subject: Re: [nabs-l] High school outreach
>
> Hi,
>
> I think this is an amazing idea. I'd be willing to help in any way that I
> can.
>
> Liz
>
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> liz.bottner at gmail.com
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