[nabs-l] High school outreach

[Aziza C]

Nicely stated Angela!

On 5/15/09, Angela fowler <fowlers at syix.com> wrote:
> 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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>>
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