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The Mentoring Leadership and Resource Network, better known as MLRN, is a grass roots effort started by a few educators and supported, in part as a network community of ASCD. Since 1991 MLRN has grown to become a international initiative. MLRN was started by six educators with an interest in new teacher mentoring and induction programs. The intent is to help educators everywhere to access the best practices in mentoring and induction and to create a "mentoring initiative" across the USA.

The 5 MLRN purposes:
• To provide an organizational vehicle for a mentoring initiative
• To increase the knowledge base and general awareness of best practices in the mentoring and induction of new teachers by providing a variety of forums for those involved in mentoring to share their experiences with others
• To promote and provide effective training for new teacher mentors
• To establish mentoring of new teachers as the norm in schools
• To establish, through mentoring, the norms of collegiality, collaboration and continuous professional development in schools.

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    • Unmuted: The Importance of Student Feedback

    • Unmuted: Using Student Feedback to Create an Effective Secondary Learning Environment   Join us for a Webinar on June 25     Space is limited. Reserve your Webinar seat now at: https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/580671226   By the time they reach high school, teenagers know the business of school and teaching. They know what works and what doesn’t work, how to get under a teacher's skin, and how to avoid doing anything. Seriously capitalizing on their input is at the core of how to reach them and increase their willingness to learn. If teachers provide students with a strong foundation of trust and rapport, student feedback can function as a powerful metacognitive dialogue, a constant flow of “what are we learning” and “how are we learning it?” When taken to the next level, it also entails much higher thinking processes such as: How well is the teacher teaching it to me? The aim of this session is to provide educators with the means to garner student feedback purposefully and effectively. Participants will: • Discuss how criticism can strengthen their teaching practice. • Hear, firsthand from former students, how a teacher who seeks and uses student feedback impacts students and their learning environment. • Work through potential scenarios, brainstorming ideas that they can immediately use in the classroom. • Be provided with a handout that includes helpful links and student feedback tools. Target Audience: This webinar is designed for new and veteran secondary teachers, but may also be applicable for instructors of teacher preparation courses.   About the Presenters: National Board Certified Mindy Kyriakides is fifteen-year veteran of the classroom in both online and traditional environments.  She, along with her former students, authored Transparent Teaching of Adolescents: Creating the Ideal Class for Students and Teachers (2012, Rowman & Littlefield Education), a conversation about best practices for high school teachers. She also runs an education blog for secondary teachers. Her fellow presenters for this session are former students and co-authors.   Title: Unmuted: Using Student Feedback to Create an Effective Secondary Learning Environment Date: Tuesday, June 25, 2013 Time: 8:00 PM - 9:15 PM EDT   After registering you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the Webinar.
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  • I am a member of the New Teacher Advisory Board for MLRN and will be blogging about my student teaching experience this coming fall. Please follow my blog at mentors.net/patrickriley ! I look forward to receiving any comments.
    Patrick_Riley, 3 years ago| Flag
  • New Teacher Advisory Board

    In 2009, ASCD initiated a new program for the networks and renamed them Connected Communities. Along with this initiative, MLRN created a Student Advisory Board to solicit the input of graduate students who are currently in the process of becoming a teacher in their respective states. In order to better serve new teacher candidates, it was decided to develop a forum for these persons to meet and provide them the opportunity to share their ideas and experiences as they proceed through their teacher training process.

    The 5 MLRN Student Advisory Board Purposes are:
    To increase the knowledge base and general awareness of best practices in the mentoring and induction of new teachers by providing a variety of forums for those who are currently in graduate school education programs to share their experiences with others.

    To promote and provide effective training for student teachers.

    To establish a communications forum for new teacher candidates.

    To establish the norms of collegiality, collaboration and continuous professional development of graduate students as they student teach in various school settings.

    To post articles on the MLRN website that are of interest to other student teachers and new to the profession as well.

    Current members of the student advisory board include Brian Roach, Patrick Riley, and Ryan Scharfer.
    Richard_Lange, 3 years ago| Flag
  • Leaders in Mentoring:

    Please share what is the most exciting aspect of mentoring programs. What is the most frustrating aspect of mentoring programs.
    Amelia_Hicks, 3 years ago| Flag
  • Calling all reflective leaders: nominate an educator for the Outstanding Young Educator Award at www.ascd.org/oyea by August 1st.
    Meg_Simpson, 3 years ago| Flag
  • Hi Richard,
    It's great to have your group in the online Professional Interest Communities (formerly Networks). See you at Conference.
    Gail
    Gail_Clark_Dickson, 3 years ago| Flag

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