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Ready to Launch Incredible Interest-Based Mentorships at Your School? Here’s How

Have you signed up for The Educator’s Room Daily Newsletter? Click here and support independent journalism! National Mentoring Month, which concluded last week, is always a great opportunity for educators to consider how to tap into the power of mentorship, and in particular interest-based mentoring, which I’ve seen transform the lives of so many young people.  […]

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“Let’s Make This Happen”: Following Student Interests to Interest-Based Mentorships

Nothing is more exciting than helping a child find their passion – but are the adults ready? Have you signed up for The Educator’s Room Daily Newsletter? Click here and support independent journalism! In twenty years of helping children, families, and schools harness the power of interest-based mentoring, I’ve seen how it provides transformative educational experiences. Along the way, I’ve […]

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The Secret Lives of Young People

How Interest-Based Mentorships Can Transform Education Have you signed up for The Educator’s Room Daily Newsletter? Click here and support independent journalism! Late in the spring of my first year teaching, we paused academic classes and bussed over to an auditorium for something called a “Mentorship Festival.” I had little idea what to expect. At […]

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How Educators Can Fight Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children in Our Communities

Have you signed up for The Educator’s Room Daily Newsletter? Click here and support independent journalism! Human Trafficking Awareness Month January is Human Trafficking Awareness Month. Most folks equate human trafficking (HT) with labor trafficking and sex trafficking that happens elsewhere. People will name other countries or discuss a movie they saw with dramatic kidnappings and […]

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Ask the Educator’s Room: Do I Become Facebook Friends with a Parent?

Have you signed up for The Educator’s Room Daily Newsletter? Click here and support independent journalism! Welcome to The Educator’s Room advice column for teachers! Today we’re helping a teacher who’s co-worker is homophobic and transphobic. We’re also helping a teacher who’s student is leaving, but wants to stay in touch. See what our writers have to say, then […]

Posted inMental Health

COVID-19 Prematurely Aged Student Brains: What Does it Mean for Educators

by Jeannette Odom Have you signed up for The Educator’s Room Daily Newsletter? Click here and support independent journalism! Research on the effects of COVID-19 on adolescent brains is at the forefront of education today. A study from Stanford University suggests that the pandemic has physically altered adolescents’ brains, making their brains appear several years older than […]