CLEAR Mentoring ProgramCohort #3

Dr. Ken MagdalenoCLEAR Executive Director

Today’s Agenda Overview of CLEAR’s Mentoring Program Why Mentoring? Developing an Effective Mentor-Protégé

Relationship Program Expectations Five Important Attitudes and Beliefs

Mentors must have General Responsibilities of Mentors The Role of a Mentor In Summary

CLEAR Mentoring Program

From our handbook…The CLEAR Mentoring Program is a two-year long leadership development and mentoring program that prepares current and future leaders to address important issues (intentional activism) in schools and communities. Protégés are mentored by experienced educational and community mentors, including leaders who have “walked the talk” and who are using their knowledge and experience as a way of “giving back.”

Why Mentoring?

Mentoring is not about finding a perfect match or even a single relationship. A more useful definition of mentoring is: A collaborative relationship between two or more individuals that supports the career and/or personal development throughout one’s career

▪ Five Key Steps for Effective Mentoring Relationships, Audrey J. Murrell, Ph.D.

Developing an Effective Mentor-Protégé Relationship

Leadership mentoring is a dynamic, reciprocal relationship in an environment between an experienced mentor and a less experienced leader (protégé) intended to promote the professional development of both.

▪ Adapted from: “Mentoring Relations” by Charles C. Healy & Alice J. Welchert, Educational Researcher, Vol. 19, No. 9, (12/90) pp. 17‐21

Program Expectations

A protégé is expected to... Make a two‐year commitment to participate in the program Make a minimum of bi‐weekly contacts with your mentor Maintain contact and keep your appointments Follow through on agreed upon activities Take advantage of your mentors knowledge and experience Be trustworthy, ethical, and responsible 

A mentor is expected to... Make a two‐year commitment to participate Be available for bi‐weekly contacts with the protégé Maintain contact and keep your appointments Be trustworthy, ethical, and responsible

Five Important Attitudes and Beliefs Mentors must have:1. A willingness to invest time and energy in the

professional learning of their colleagues

2. A strong conviction and belief that other mentors are likely to have a positive effect on the quality of community and educational leadership 

3. Confidence in their own abilities

4. High standards and expectations for their own abilities and for the work of their colleagues

5. A belief that mentoring is a mutually enhancing professional learning opportunity where both partners will achieve equal satisfaction from the relationship

General Responsibilities of Mentors

Advising: The mentor responds to a colleague’s need to gain information needed to carry out a job effectively

  Communicating: The mentor works consistently

to ensure that open lines of communication are always available

  Counseling: The mentor provides needed

emotional support to a colleague  Guiding: The mentor works to acquaint a new

colleague to the informal and formal norms of a particular system

The Role of a Mentor

Be available to your protégé and remember that there are different ways to be available…in person, e-mail, phone, or social media

Even though this is a protégé driven program, if you don’t hear from him/her, you may make contact

Actively listen…don’t multitask when meeting

Set SMART goals for your protégé – Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic, and Timely

The Role of a Mentor, continued

Be approachable…protégés often see you as “above them.”

Use your network to assist your protégé

If you don’t have an answer…look to fellow CLEAR members for assistance

Be respectful…good relationships begin with respect

Provide feedback…in a respectful manner

Live up to your commitment

In Summary…

Commitment to the CLEAR Mentoring Program

Why Mentoring?Protégé and Mentor ResponsibilitiesSocratic MethodConfidentialityDeveloping a lifelong relationshipYou will get out of the program what

you put into it…