Yearly archives: 2014


Mentors_Guide

The Mentor’s Guide: Facilitating Effective Learning Relationships (second Edition). Lois J. Zachary, Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, 2012

This book is a great guide for mentoring practice, full of practical tools for facilitating the experience through all the phases of the mentoring cycle. The work is grounded in the principles of adult learning, and offers numerous examples and scenarios of what mentoring can look like and sound like in different contexts, including how to address challenges that arise. The book is not written specifically for the education system, but nonetheless has been widely used to guide mentors in school settings. Lois Zachary is an internationally recognized expert on mentoring, and was the key speaker at the 2014 Mentor Conference in Richmond.


Teacher Mentorship BC Network, 2014

Continuity and Change: Cultivating Teacher Mentoring In Challenging Times | October 27, 2014   The Teacher Mentorship BC Network is hosting its first network meeting of the 2014-2015 school year at Burnaby Central Secondary School (6011 Deer Lake Parkway, Burnaby, BC). The day starts at 9am with breakfast and networking at 8:30am.   The intent of this first meeting is to review and reflect on the ground the network has […]


Changing the Narrative

Stories about education and educators are everywhere, from the 6 o’clock news to the check out line at the grocery store. During a panel discussion at the first annual Provincial Mentorship Conference last April, Dr. Linda Farr Darling from UBC challenged educators to “change the narratives that get out there.” How do we change the public narrative to better represent the wonderful things teachers are doing?