Episode 12: Why Youth Mentoring Increases Opportunities for Kids

BY Ed Post Staff June 15, 2018

In this episode, we interview Torie Weiston-Serdan, educator and founder of the Youth Mentoring Action Network, a non-profit organization that provides mentoring services to young people to help them become college, career, and life ready. We discuss the benefits of mentoring programs and why increasing opportunities for kids to be mentored is so important. We talk about the future and potential of mentoring as well as how schools can provide better support for marginalized groups. [spp-player url=http://traffic.libsyn.com/voices4ed/12_-_Education_Post_-_Mentoring.mp3] [spp-tweet tweet="Sometimes you’re watching your protegé run into the wall, and you just have to be there when they hit it and get back up. – Torie Weiston-Serdan"]

Episode Details:

The life experiences that inspired Torie to become an educator
Why classroom teachers are not always suited for the role of mentor
Why everyone needs mentoring
What a good system-wide mentoring policy would look like
How to create a youth-led mentoring system
How mentoring can help young people organize politically
What schools and educators can do to better support marginalized groups
On Torie’s first mentor

[spp-tweet tweet="My fundamental issue with mentoring is that if young people see it as such a passive process, they don’t get as much out of it. – Torie Weiston-Serdan"]