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  1. Your Recruiting Pipeline and Reporting Progress

    Your Recruiting Pipeline and Reporting Progress In years past, iMentor's success in volunteer recruitment was measured in the number of RTBMs achieved by a given date (deadline). The problem with the RTBM metric is that, while it's important to kno...
  2. In-Person Assessments 101

    There are two types of assessments occurring in the 2019-20 program year: online unit quizzes and in-person pair assessments. This article is a detailed overview of in-person assessments and outlines their purpose, how the assessment activities fit ...
  3. Standardized Pair Support

    Program Managers (PMs) are responsible for providing a consistent baseline of pair support to all mentees and mentors on their caseload.  This is referred to as "standardized pair support."  At a high level, mentees must receive a minimum of one sup...
  4. Pair Expeditions

    iMentor’s Research and Evaluation team conducted analysis that found mentees had 10% higher odds of graduating high school and 4% higher odds of enrolling in college for each Pair Expedition the dyad completed. Pair Expeditions are informal meeting...
  5. Establishing Strong Pair Engagement Habits

    Monitoring pair engagement frequency and quality in order to foster consistent online and in-person communication is a critical aspect of the PM role.  iMentor has developed several tools that are designed to support this work and it is important ...
  6. How to talk to schools about class sessions

    All students participating in the iMentor program must take an iMentor class once a week for the length of their high school-based match. Class sessions are the main space where: the curriculum is delivered to mentees through interactive discussio...
  7. Spring call talking points for mentors whose mentees will be in high school next year

    Below is a script to help structure calls with mentors who have mentees in grades 9-11. The purpose of these calls is to reflect on the year, prepare for summer and plan for the fall. For strategies to prepare for mentor calls check out Strategies...
  8. How were in-person assessments developed?

    Our highest aspiration for understanding student learning in the long-term is to utilize as many sources of information as possible, including the student, their mentor, and their Program Manager. In-person assessments are the first step toward gett...
  9. iMentor Challenge Tips & Tricks

    Use this fully-editable template to create a flyer to help publicize your crowdfunding campaign and to support mentors and other community stakeholders in becoming CrowdRise pagemakers.  ...
  10. Facilitating iMentor Pair Events

    Monthly iMentor events are an important part of our program model.  We want events to be fun and engaging and for pairs to use their time time together to connect on a personal level while also working together to build the skills and knowledge that...