Greg R. Fishbone's Page

Hi Greg. As you go through your Masters program, I encourage you to use the Tutor/Mentor Connection web site as a resource. It shows that kids in high poverty need a wide range of non-school learning, mentoring, social/emotional and soft-skill development activities so they come to school better prepared to learn, and leave with a network who can help them to college and jobs. One of the links shows a program in Chicago where lawyers are raising money to fund volunteer-based tutor/mentor programs. Lawyers could be doing that in every city.

The T/MC focuses on the infrastructure, and private sector funding, needed to make tutor/mentor programs available in poverty areas. If teachers learn some of these capacity building habits, they may be able to do more to influence how well prepared kids are when they come to school, which will make teaching them much more successful and rewarding.