Transition+-+Mentoring

Members:
 * Transition/Mentoring**
 * Irene Jimenez || jimenezi@hayscisd.net ||


 * Result Statement: Create a Freshman center within each comprehensive high school.**

Action Items
 * 1) Establish transitional summer programs for entering freshman
 * 2) Establish an effective mentor/advisory system based on student need
 * 3) Develop a freshman seminar that addresses:
 * 4) Learning Styles
 * 5) Identifying at-risk students
 * 6) Emphasizes college and career readiness
 * 7) Review and update student personal education plan
 * 8) Emphasizes developmental needs typical of freshman
 * 9) Exposure to career pathways
 * 10) Provide collaboration and common planning opportunities for freshman center staff.
 * 11) Allocate dedicated resources and recruit a staff dedicated to the success of a freshman center
 * 12) Establish program evaluation measures to determine the effectiveness of meeting freshman needs and the transition to their sophomore year.
 * 13) Provide professional development for staff specific to a freshman center.
 * 14) Develop a program that connects and engages freshmen parents to their student.

Links/Findings:

Focus on the following websites is mentoring for youth with disabilities - information relevant for all students -- PG

Career Focused Mentoring "Career-focused mentoring provides young people the opportunity to get a glimpse of the world of work that may not otherwise be available to them." (from website) Mentoring "Mentoring is recognized as one of the most important strategies for assisting youth in making a positive transition to adulthood. Both caring adults and peers may play a key role in mentoring. Despite all of the information available on mentoring, there is very little about mentoring youth with disabilities or about career-focused mentoring of older youth. The following information provides you with the knowledge of how to create your own mentoring programs and how you can use mentoring to facilitate positive transition outcomes for youth with disabilities." (from website) High School/High Tech "The High School/High Tech (HS/HT) program, one of the most promising comprehensive models for preparing youth with disabilities to explore careers in math, science, and technology effectively links youth with disabilities to a broad range of academic, career development, and experiential resources and experiences that will enable them **to successfully meet the workforce demands of the 21st century**." (from website)