SXSW EDU 2024
How Personalized Mentoring Improves Post-Secondary Success
Description:
1:1 mentoring starting in 11th grade helps right social inequities and offers valuable resources to empower first gen students on their path to both a diploma and a future career with economic mobility. Learn how iMentor’s Next Gen Leaders program leverages the full potential of 1:1 student to adult relationships to offer individualized real-world, career-connected learning with a caring adult and dedicated in-school college planning and counselors. Hear from mentees how this whole school model matched with strategic partnerships improves post-secondary success rates and access to careers.
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Takeaways
- Best practices to integrate support into students’ school days so high school is a catalyst to boost post-secondary success and early career pathways.
- Solutions to more actively involve employers, employees, and co-workers in programs that support and embrace DEI.
- Framework for building outcome driven non-profit and corporate partnerships with real-world impact.
Speakers
- Heather Wathington, CEO, iMentor
- Nina Longino, Executive Director, Chicago, iMentor
- Nancy Bonges, Director of Community Engagement, William Blair
Organizer
Greer Bautz, Director, Gray Communciations
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