Sentence examples for school mentoring from inspiring English sources

The seven-minute play, "Sliced by an Artist," is the work of Kenny Juarez, a pupil at the Cheremoya Avenue Elementary School in Los Angeles, where the Young Storytellers Foundation, a volunteer public school mentoring program, pairs Hollywood professionals with fourth and fifth grade pupils as they fashion their original ideas into short dramas.

No book, school, mentoring, or even apprenticeship can substitute for hands-on experience.

Waters' teachers, mostly black women, helped mold her, too, by spending extra time after school mentoring her.

She is a contributing editor for The Feminist Wire and is also the founder of the Women's Leadership Project, a feminist humanist high school mentoring program based in South L.A. and Black Skeptics Los Angeles.

A longtime high school mentoring program turns to eighth grade to help get more students to the stage.

Most careers advisers will recommend taking on relevant work experience, part-time jobs, school mentoring schemes, sports clubs or societies such as the Scouts, Girl Guides or Cadets.

Quantum showed that poor inner-city high school students could improve grades, graduate at higher rates and get into less trouble through quality after-school mentoring that promoted noncognitive skills as well as academic excellence.

Well, I suspect it means that the slow, hard grind of outreach programmes, summer schools, mentoring schemes and the rest are more important than ever.

"But the ability for the districts to target these kids and provide Saturday classes, alternative high schools, mentoring, tutorials and academic intervention all comes with a cost and often depends on the resources of the districts," she said.

There's a lack of evidence identifying which outreach initiatives are the most effective, but a recent analysis from the Sutton Trust found that summer schools, mentoring and tutoring are among the methods with the most evidence of success.

Sikivu Hutchinson is the founder of the Women's Leadership Project high-school mentoring project and a member of the Dignity in Schools Campaign, a national advocacy organization against school pushout.