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  1. Mentor job description

    Organization Overview iMentor provides youth in underserved communities with mentors who help them develop the leadership, career, and social skills that they need to graduate high school college-ready and succeed in college.  iMent...
  2. How Managers Can Support Program Managers

    In the iMentor program, Program Managers (PMs) are managed by Program Directors whose main role is to support PMs in their program implementation and support of mentor-mentee pairs. PM managers use data and observations of PMs to assess program outc...
  3. Encouraging Students to Sign up for iMentor

    As a PM you will work with some students who aren’t immediately bought into the program. Many of the students who push back initially will benefit from participating, so you should try your best to understand and address the source of their resistan...
  4. 9 key Platform functions after Matching

    9 key Platform functions now that you've matched! Congratulations! If you're reading this, you've matched your mentees with some great mentors. You also know your job is not done. Here are a 9 key tools that have opened up to you now that you hav...
  5. December Class of 2020

    December Key takeaways: The phenomenon of "holiday blues" is being exacerbated by the COVID -19 pandemic. You can help your mentee combat them! The post-secondary landscape continues to be fluid as a result of the ongoi...
  6. Mentor Spring Calls

    Program Managers (PMs) must plan for and complete a support touch point with all mentors between April 1 - June 30.  These conversations will look different based on mentees' grade level, the strength of pairs' relationships and their progress towar...
  7. Introduction to Team and Performance Management

    Overview of Goals and Priorities for Managing Program Implementation  This resource presents the high-level goals for managing regional implementation teams. Overview of Staff Roles and Responsibilities This one-page resource provides an ...
  8. Mentor Training Research

    Elements of Effective Practice for Mentoring - Training Excerpt This excerpt is from the premier resource in the field of mentoring with regards to evidence-based implementation best-practices.  Because iMentor's training philosophy is rooted i...
  9. Pair support notes

    What are pair support notes? Pair support notes are written by Program Managers to document the differentiated or individualized support they provide to mentors and mentees. These notes are recorded on the platform in a timely manner (ideally withi...
  10. College Decision-Making

    A post-secondary placement decision is made by considering several factors. It’s nuanced, and you have to be prepared to tailor it to each student and family. Some of our students will only be considering colleges, some of our students are consideri...