Author: Chip R Bell
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Keywords: mentors, managers
Number of Pages: 189
Published: 1996-01-01
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 1881052923
ISBN-13: 9781881052920
The bestselling author of Customers as Partners presents a practical primer for using mentoring to help employees grow in today’s tumultuous business environment. Chip R. Bell takes the mystery out of mentoring, teaching leaders how to give and take advice, coach and counsel effectively, develop new approaches to team meeting management, and more.
Author: Annette Breaux
Publisher: Eye on Educatio
Keywords: mentors, teachers, new, answers
Number of Pages: 180
Published: 2002-11-01
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 1930556489
ISBN-13: 9781930556485
Make sure your new teachers are ready for the realities of the classroom . . . .Be confident that their mentors are focused and effective.Organized so new teachers can read it by themselves, this book can also be studied collaboratively with veteran teachers who have been selected to mentor them. (176 pp., 2003)This lively, readable manual - generates instant impact on teaching and learning.- supports and sustains master classroom teachers who need help mastering their roles as mentors.- stimulates and organizes interactive sessions between new teachers and their mentors.- provides a collectio
Author: Mr. Hal Portner
Publisher: Corwin Press
Keywords: districts, need, schools, everything, mentors, training
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2001-04-24
List price: $28.95
ISBN-10: 0761977384
ISBN-13: 9780761977384
This how-to guide and practical workbook will help planners and participants develop an exemplary mentoring program or upgrade an existing one.
Author: Noel Annan
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Keywords: geniuses, eccentrics, mentors, dons
Number of Pages: 367
Published: 2001-08-05
List price: $17.50
ISBN-10: 0226021084
ISBN-13: 9780226021089
For two hundred years Oxford and Cambridge Universities were home to some of Britain’s greatest teachers and intellects, each forming the minds of the passing generations of students and influencing the thinking and practice of university learning throughout the country and the world.In this entertaining, informative book, Noel Annan is at his incisive best. Displaying his customary mastery of his subject, he describes the great dons in all their glory and eccentricities: who they were, what they were like, why they mattered, and what their legacy is. Written with love and wisdom, the gr
Author: Marian Wright Edelman
Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
Keywords: mentors, memoir, lanterns
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2000-09-01
List price: $14.99
ISBN-10: 0060958596
ISBN-13: 9780060958596
Throughout her life and work, Marian Wright Edelman has been at the heart of this cantury’s most dramatic civil rights and child advocacy struggles. In this stirring, heartfelt memoir she pays tribute to the extrordinary mentors who helped light her way including Martin Luther King, Jr., Robert F. Kennedy, Fannie Lou Hamer, and William Slaone Coffin. She celebrates the lives of her parents and the great Black Women of Bennetsville, South Carolina- Miz Tee, Miz Lucy, Miz Kate-who gave her love and guidance in her youth, as well as the many teachers and figures who inspired her education
Author: Alan Price
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Keywords: mentors, leaders, story, lead, ready
Number of Pages: 148
Published: 2004-04-09
List price: $22.95
ISBN-10: 0787969516
ISBN-13: 9780787969516
Written with the flair of a master storyteller, Alan Price’s Ready to Lead? tells the tale of Mark Gibson, a young executive who is searching for inspiration and leadership skills as he experiences the inevitable growing pains in his career. Ready to Lead? spins a compelling insider’s tale that shows what it takes to develop from the role of a successful manager to become an authentic leader.
Author: Marc Freedman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: youth, new, voluntarism, urban, mentors, strangers, adult, kindness
Number of Pages: 196
Published: 1999-01-01
List price: $39.99
ISBN-10: 0521652871
ISBN-13: 9780521652872
The Kindness of Strangers tells the story of a group of concerned adults who mentor inner-city youth. It describes what volunteers can do to ameliorate the conditions of young people living in poverty. It chronicles the rise of the mentoring movement and examines its wider implications for education and social policy. Based on interviews with over 300 mentors, young people, scholars, and youth workers, The Kindness of Strangers takes a hard look at mentoring and asks some critical questions: How much can mentoring really accomplish? What does it take to be a successful mentor? What makes the
