The Ninth Grade Mentoring program has received much interest
from the teaching staff at my school.
The program has been approved by all principals; teachers are already
volunteering and signing up to become mentors for next year. Community members who are interested have been
completing applications and before the end of the year they will go through an
interview process to see if they qualify as a community mentor. Teachers are beginning to recommend good
candidates for student mentors as well.
Everything is moving along quicker than expected. This program won’t come into effect until
August 2013 school year when we receive the final names of entering ninth grade
at-risk students. However, at the rate
that the Ninth Grade Mentoring program is moving and the interest that I’ve
seen, may allow us to have more ninth
grade mentee students which will ultimately improve student achievement.
There is still much more that needs to be complete before
and during this program. We have
questionnaires to complete, data to look at, and once the program comes into
effect, with our incoming ninth grade mentees, we will then look at grades,
attendance records, discipline referrals and more to see if improvement is
being made.
