Mentor Resources
Virtual Mentorship • How To Videos • Educational Resources • Virtual Games • Mindfulness Activities
Virtual Training Manual
Virtual Mentorship Zoom Presentation
On August 10th, 2020 Emily presented to mentors on the topic of how to build a virtual relationship in an engaging way so our kids come out of this year empowered, not lost. Click the button below to watch the video on our Facebook page. The video runs about an hour long and includes a Q & A session at the end.
BECOMING A BETTER MENTOR:
Strategies to Be There for Young People
MENTOR’s Becoming a Better Mentor: Strategies to Be There for Young People is a free resource written by experts in the field to benefit any adult looking to support young people. Full of real-world advice and evidence-based strategies, it provides mentors with tangible strategies to “be there” for young people in their various life journeys and teaches them about the core skills, key principles, and critical practices of mentoring, such as:
mindsets and attitudes that lay the foundation for a strong mentoring relationship;
basic information about youth development and typical mentoring relationship cycles; and
critical skills and competencies to grow and refine to meet the needs of youth.
Resource courtesy of MENTOR
The Power of Belief
The Power of belief -- mindset and success
Eduardo Briceno | TEDxManhattanBeach
The way we understand our intelligence and abilities deeply impacts our success. Based on social science research and real life examples, Eduardo Briceño articulates how mindset, or the understanding of intelligence and abilities, is key. When students or adults see their abilities as fixed, whether they think they're naturals or just not built for a certain domain, they avoid challenge and lose interest when things get hard. Conversely, when they understand that abilities are developed, they more readily adopt learning-oriented behaviors such as deliberate practice and grit that enable them to achieve their goals. But this belief is itself malleable, and there are clear actions we can all take to establish a growth mindset and enable success for our children, our peers and ourselves. Eduardo Briceño is the Co-Founder and CEO of Mindset Works (http://www.mindsetworks.com), an organization that helps schools and other organizations cultivate a growth mindset culture. The growth mindset was discovered by Stanford professor and Mindset Works co-founder Carol Dweck, Ph.D., and is described in her book Mindset: The New Psychology of Success (http://www.mindsetonline.com). Mindset Works offers Brainology, an innovative blended learning program to teach a growth mindset to students, teachers and schools, as well as teacher professional development and tools (http://www.mindsetworks.com/brainology/).
Cultural Differences: Supporting Your Mentee When Your Worlds are Different Realities. The Questions You Want Answered.
Please click the button to watch the panel on our Facebook page.
Thank You to Samuel Bellamy, Ericka Peeler, Jaymes McCloud, Aaron Hicks, and Carlos Colon for participating in this panel discussion.
Cultural Differences Panel
LGBTQ+ Training
Is your mentee or child questioning their identity or transitioning?
Watch Be A Mentor’s virtual training with Jonatan Guerrero- Ramirez of We are Family on how we can best support our youth as they grow through this process of identity.
How To: Zoom
This video shows you step-by-step how to use Zoom for your virtual mentorship!
0:00 Signing into Zoom
0:45 Scheduling the Meeting
1:43 Copying the Meeting Invite
2:05 Paste Invite into Email to BAM
2:36 On Meeting Day
3:14 Mentee Enters
How To: Kahoot
This video details the entire process of setting up Kahoot to play with your mentee!
Your mentee needs a spark… Here’s some ideas!
We have compiled a list of books so that every child can see representation in their libraries.
If there is a book missing from this list that you would like us to add, please contact ecruse@beamentornow.org
Educational Resources
Khan Academy
As a mission-focused non-profit, Khan Academy believe it’s their duty to do their part to ensure students keep learning amidst the school closures. They want to support teachers and parents to the best of their ability as we all navigate this crisis together.
Khan Academy’s extensive library of standards-aligned curriculum covers kids from K-12. Lessons in grammar, science history – and even AP tests – will keep kids on track to success. The classes are great to augment school classes or to explore an entirely new subject.
NASA Teachable Moments
Bringing NASA into your home turned classroom/studyroom. Turn the wonder of watching a spacecraft land on Mars into real-world engagement in STEM. Teachable Moments harness the latest space missions and discoveries from NASA to answer the age-old question, “When are we ever going to use this?”
Visit this LINK for more information!
America’s Test Kitchen Kids
School-age kids can learn the ins and outs of measuring and reading recipes and try their hand at making French toast for free thanks to America's Test Kitchen weekly program.
Breakout EDU
Breakout EDU offers immersive escape room games to schools and teachers to add more excitement to classroom lessons. During school closures, the platform is offering families free access to a collection of digital games kids can play at home. “Around the World in 30 Days” shoes the solar system’s effect on Earth, “Dino Explorer” helps kids learn to identify and classify groups, and “Keyla’s Carnival Games” delves into the mysteries of fractions.
Eureka Math
Eureka Math is a free, open-education resource for parents and teachers of kids from pre-K to high school. Click on the grade level and lesson, and you’ll get worksheets, a teacher’s guide and tips for parents.
Freckle by Renaissance
Looking to build foundation skills? Freckle offers kid-friendly adaptive lessons in math, social studies and science for grades K-12. Parents and teachers can sign up for a free account. Kids begin with a diagnostic screening, and then the algorithm helps them progress through lessons at their own level.
Virtual Job Shadowing Toolkit
Look through here to see all of the job shadowing tools offered through the CCSD school system.
Student Virtual Bootcamp for Learning Robotics, Engineering, and Computer Science (Grades 4-8)
Calling all struggling new-to-home school parents! Are you having trouble navigating the new world of home schooling in COVID-19 crisis? What if your child could learn to build basic electronic STEM projects such as a night light, music composer, and intruder alarm outside of the classroom?
Thimble wants to help! They can bring educative, fun, and instructor-led technology projects back into their day to help teach them robotics, electronics, and computer science. This will be done with one of their hands-on beginner kits and four 1-hour build-along sessions broadcasted live during the next two weeks. The build-along session will help students construct their projects from start to finish, from your home.
Visit this LINK for more information about how you can get started with Thimble!
TIME for Kids
TIME for Kids Digital Library will be made free for the rest of the school year due to COVID19.
“As the world asks more of families and teachers, TIME for Kids salutes you, and we're here to support you! TIME for Kids is in the unique position to help kids understand this unprecedented moment.”
Visit this link to find out how you can gain access to a library of four grade-specific digital editions of TIME for Kids and Your $ financial literacy magazine.
Turnkey teaching tools, with worksheets and quizzes for families or teachers, are also available at timeforkids.com
Scholastic Learn at Home
Learn at Home website with daily lessons that combine videos, stories and prompts for drawing and writing activities. Grade levels include pre-K and kindergarten, grades 1 and 2, grades 3 to 5, and grades 6 and up.
The website currently has five days' worth of content. An additional 15 days of content is on the way, Scholastic said in a news release.
The courses will remain free and open indefinitely, Scholastic said. No sign-up is required, and the website is accessible on any device that has internet.
ASA Futurescape
Now middle and high school students can prepare for their futures anytime, anywhere. ASA Futurescape, the mobile-first experience that lets students explore thousands of education and career paths on their own terms. Futurescape is 100% personalized and 100% free. Powered by real-time insights, it’s the only future exploration tool that learns and grows in sync with young people’s evolving strengths, passions, interests, and goals.
Google Arts and Culture
Go here to virtually peruse famous museums, places, historical periods, the magic of Harry Potter, or even see which famous portrait you most look like.
Virtual Games
Kahoot!
Kahoot! is a game-based learning platform that makes it easy to create, share and play learning games or trivia quizzes in minutes. Unleash the fun in classrooms, offices and living rooms!
PlayingCards.io
Play any tabletop game online with friends.
Name, Place, Animal, Thing
Choose a letter at random. Now put a time, such as 30 seconds on the clock. Write a name, animal, place, and thing that all start with the letter you chose within the time allotted. Every correct answer receives 10 points. If two or more people have the same answer, neither receives points.
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Word Scatter
Here at Word Scatter you can play a fun word game by your self, against friends in the same room as you, and even against friends any where in the world. Word Scatter, being a word game, is great for school as it helps enhance your reading and vocabulary an a fun way.
Houseparty
Houseparty is a social networking app that allows up to eight people to video chat at once in a “room.” Users can have infinite rooms and easily float between rooms. Users receive a notification when friends open the app and can join chats with friends (and friends of friends). Allows users to play games such as Heads Up!, Trivia, Quick Draw, and Chips and Guac!
Skribbl
skribbl.io is a free multiplayer drawing and guessing game.
One game consists of a few rounds in which every round someone has to draw their chosen word and others have to guess it to gain points!
The person with the most points at the end of game will then be crowned as the winner!
Mindfulness Activities
Monterey Bay Aquarium Meditation With Jellies
During this unprecedented period a little mediation goes a long way.
Crayola Free Coloring Pages
Free coloring pages kids of all ages can enjoy to get away from the computer screen for a bit.
