This Webinar presentation was held on Tuesday, November 16, 2010, as part of the free monthly Webinar series from Friends for Youth's Mentoring Institute. Join us to engage in a discussion about the documentary Waiting for Superman, which highlights challenges in the American public education system. This film was released in October by the same team that brought the world An Inconvenient Truth, including Davis Guggenheim as creator and director, Participant Media as producer, and Paramount Pictures as distributor. In this film, Guggenheim explores some of the challenging issues surrounding the United States public education system and identifies a few of the innovators who are making changes that they believe can better prepare the next generation for opportunity and success. What role does mentoring play in making this kind of change? How can mentors help prepare the next generation? How are mentoring programs responding to the call to action generated by the film? This Webinar will feature researchers and youth mentoring experts from the Mentoring Partnership of Minnesota and MENTOR, including Marc Wheeler, a co-author of the Review of Three Recent Randomized Trials of School-Based Mentoring. This webinar was also offered on November 3, 2010 as part of the Mentoring Partnership of Minnesota’s free webinar series.

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April Riordan,
Director of Training
and Community
Partnerships, MPM
Courtney Erickson,
AmeriCorps Technical
Assistance & Training
Specialist, MPM
Sarah Kremer,
Program Director at
Friends For Youth’s
Mentoring Institute

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Marc Wheeler

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intervention outcome effect size
SBM† reading -.01
SBM† school-related misconduct .11*
Experience Corps† reading .13*,.16*
SBM† truancy .18*
SEL (Universal) conduct problems .23*
SEL (Universal) academic performance .28*
Volunteer tutoring reading .30*
Volunteer tutoring writing .45*
† Findings based on trials of scaled-up programs (rather than small,
researcher-controlled trials).
* p <.05

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Intervention Evidence Rating Includes
Mentoring*
ALAS Potentially positive effects YES
Check & Connect Positive effects YES
Accelerated Middle Schools Potentially positive effects NO
Twelve Together Potentially positive effects YES
Career Academies Potentially positive effects NO (POSSIBLY
SOME WORK-
SITE)
Financial Incentives for Teen
Parents to Stay in School
Potentially positive effects NO
WWC Effectiveness Ratings For Dropout Prevention: Staying in school
*Mentoring elements in these programs tend to be more time-intensive and structured than
those found in typical SBM programs.

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Charles Velschow

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 Measuring Interest in Mentoring
from Waiting For Superman film
 Link to the Survey from MENTOR

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Jean Lahage Cohen
Executive Director
Mentoring Partnerships of
New York and Long Island

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Discovering the Possibilities Pre
survey
Post
survey
It’s too early to think about college (agree and
strongly agree)
24% 17%
I know how to find out about careers (agree
and strongly agree)
64% 76%
Know what I have to do to get to college
(agree and strongly agree)
58% 71%
A lot of financial aid is available to go to
college (agree and strongly agree)
38% 63%
You don’t need to go to college to get a good
job (disagree and strongly disagree)
38% 88%

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To get into a good college, you
need to have good grades, priority
in your life, skills and knowledge
in a specific job, and good study
skills. You should always be
working all 110% to do well in your
life.
That if you learn to believe in
yourself and your abilities
and work hard to improve
those abilities, you can
accomplish anything.
My mentor has shown me the value of
going to college. I believe the only way to
be accepted into a job of my desire is to
have a college education.
That in order to
succeed and live a
good life you need
to finish college
and continue
learning.
That you have to finish
high school strong.

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My mentee determined that
creating a perfume line was of
interest to her. We decided the
type of fragrance, designed
the bottle and came up with a
few marketing slogans. I trust
that this vision will inspire her
future success.
I enjoyeddiscussing thefuture with mymentee andalso who she is,her interests,her hopes/goals.
This is a great tool that is
extremely helpful to young
people in my opinion. The
sites could be made a little
easier to navigate, but a great
tool nevertheless.

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Friends for Youth’s Mentoring
Institute
 Mentoring Journal - Resource for
matches to engage with each other
by doing activities toether and for
programs to track the relationship
 Academic Activity Guide – Lists
many learning activities, especially
appropriate for School-Based
Mentoring Programs

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“Discovering the
Possibilities” toolkit
(pdf)
MPM’s K-12
Journey Map

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Producers of Waiting for Superman

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 This webinar was offered as part of the
Mentoring Partnership of Minnesota’s
free webinar series
 November 3, 10 -11:15pm PST
 Next Quality in Action Webinar:
 December 1, 12-1 pm CST
 Topic: Preparing mentees for mentoring
relationships