What's Working: Middle School Mentors
As part of the practice of visiting all of our schools classroom by classroom, I ran across a remarkable group of sixth and seventh graders at Gladstone K-7. Several of them are engaged in a peer mentoring project where they, as middle schoolers, take responsibility for mentoring and tutoring second graders. This project has been implemented as a dropout prevention strategy aimed at engaging scholars that may otherwise not see a place for themselves at school. Nationwide, our scholars are making the choice to dropout in middle school and before. And not because they aren't doing well in school or because home life is too tough; they drop out because they don't feel a sense of belonging. Whether through sports or clubs or special projects or mentoring, the construction of belonging through the intentional creation of school communities is a critical part of our education system. This concept is doing just that for a very special group of scholars.
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