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Here's a blog article by Valdis Krebs, showing how our network has grown since we first met on Omidyar.net a few years ago.
This illustrates how networking can be mapped, and demonstrates the result of intentional network building. If you know pe...
Thanks. I'm in full agreement. However, this comment falls short of a vision where all of the resources of a community are engaged in making learning, mentoring and enrichment available 365 days a year, and in the non-school hours, not just the sc...
I attended a Drop Out Summit in Illinois this week. One article that I read was a "birth to work" white paper. I wrote about it and posted a link on my blog.
This paper calls on people beyond traditional educators to take a responsibility for pre...
Hi Laura and Mike, thanks for joining in.
Roger spoke of a higher motivation for learning, which I strive for. In my case, it's to help disadvantaged kids have some of the same opportunities as most other kids. Idealistically, there should be loa...
I think that "learning" is something that takes active participation. Thus, I spend lots of time thinking of what sort of marketing, or incentives, might motivate youth, or adults, to spend more time learning. I've not found a good solution yet.
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Hi Rogier,
Your last paragraph has truth to it. Many communities, and countries, are so homogeneous that it provides a very narrow perspective. People writing about social capital have shared some ideas on this.
However, within big cities, there...
Hi Rogier,
I agree with your focus on teaching youth How to learn, but I don't feel there has been any significant shift in American education to a vocational path, or at least one that could be benchmarked against the best "vocational or career ...
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- Tell about your involvement in education, and your ideals for collegial sharing
- I've led a volunteer-based tutor/mentor program since 1974, connecting inner city kids in Chicago to volunteers who work in a variety of businesses and professional backgrounds. Based on this experience I started the Tutor/Mentor Connection (T/MC) in 1993, with a goal of helping every tutor/mentor program in the city get the resources each needs to be constantly improving. With the Internet, we now share ideas with people all over the world, and our goal of learning is not just to engage youth, but to engage adults, so adults do more of what is needed to help youth from poverty reach jobs and careers.
- About Me:
- You can read my linked in Profile at http://www.linkedin.com/pub/dir/daniel/bassill and my blog at http://tutormentor.blogspot.com
- Website:
- http://www.tutormentorconnection.org
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NETWORK BUILDING - Meet some of my network
This is a graphic I use to illustrate all of the different types of people that I'm trying to connect with each other, and information, that they can use to… Continue
Posted on September 12, 2009 at 10:13am —
Comon Good Forcaster and other cool tools
I hosted a tutor/mentor conference in Chicago and about 120 people attended.We had guests from Arizona, Mississippi, Indiana, Iowa, Virginia, Wisconsin, and of course, Chicago and Illinois. One of the workshops was on twitter, and another on ementoring. Lots of good ideas were shared and I'll be writing about them on my blog.
I'm also in many on-line forums and in one… Continue
I'm also in many on-line forums and in one… Continue
Posted on May 31, 2009 at 5:44pm — 1 Comment
What advise would you give to new Chicago Public Schools CEO Ron Huberman?
I posted a message on my blog, offering some homework that the new CEO of Chicago Public Schools might review in order to prepare for his job.
What advise to you want to give him?
What advise to you want to give him?
Posted on January 28, 2009 at 2:33pm — 8 Comments
Blog Exchange during Inauguration Week
On the Tutor/Mentor Connection blog and my Ning Page I'm encouraging people to write blog articles during the week of the Inauguration that tie together the visions of Obama, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and National Mentoring Month.
If members of Fireside Learning writ… Continue
If members of Fireside Learning writ… Continue
Posted on January 7, 2009 at 11:38am —
Is Great Teaching Enough? Building social capital in communities around low performing schools
I attended a policy forum in Chicago this week hosted by The Consortium on Chicago School Research. The presenters showed information that suggested that in chronically under-performing schools, strategies that expand social capital in the community around the school could have a signi… Continue
Posted on November 1, 2008 at 11:47am — 8 Comments
Comment Wall (14 comments)
- At 7:19am on September 14, 2009,
Connie Weber said…
- Hi Daniel,
How about posting your upcoming conference (Tutor/Mentor Leadership and Networking Conference) in Events, on Fireside? Let's get the word out as many ways as possible. Maybe also start a forum about it?
- At 4:50pm on February 15, 2009,
Daniel Bassill said…
- I've updated the web site for the tutor/mentor program that I lead in Chicago. I hope you'll take a look at some of the videos and other information. By sharing as we do we hope others will borrow ideas from us to build their own programs. We also hope that some of our visitors will be donors who are shopping for places they want to support.
- At 10:20pm on November 29, 2008,
Daniel Bassill said…
- I found a Pan-Canadian Literacy Forum on Ning that some of you might be interested in. Seems that they address similar issues.
- At 9:35am on August 29, 2008,
Daniel Bassill said…
- Thanks Ian. As I watched Barack Obama give his speech at the Democratic convention last night, I wished that there were a section on his campaign web site pointing to maps and charts like these. This can be "world changing" but only if we increase the number of people in the world who see the information and adopt it to their own actions.
- At 6:20am on August 29, 2008,
Ian Carmichael said…
- This is real world changing stuff Daniel - and thanks for both exposing us to it challenging us with it and inviting us into it. It's practical humanising of resources through technology: which needs exemplars for implementation - and yours is a paradigm for me.
Thanks, again and again.
- At 9:57pm on June 19, 2008,
Daniel Bassill said…
- We've had two interns from Korea working with us this month. They are studying technology and I asked if they would like to try to create a flash presentation showing their work. On the Cabrini Blog you can find a link to a presentation showing our year end dinner.
This illustrates how students who are learning technology, can create content that draws other people's attention to a social problem.
- At 4:56pm on June 11, 2008,
Daniel Bassill said…
This is a map showing poverty levels in Chicago and showing locations of organizations who attended the Tutor/Mentor Conference in Chicago. You can see other versions of this at http://mappingforjustice.blogspot.com
- At 9:47am on June 6, 2008,
Daniel Bassill said…
- I'm back from the National Conference in Atlanta. There were more than 4700 people at this event, far greater than my estimation of 1500. In my blog at http://tutormentor.blogspot.com/2008/06/national-conference-focuses-on-engaging.html I provided some links to information on business and university involvement in volunteerism and service which I feel are important.
- At 6:58am on June 2, 2008,
Daniel Bassill said…
- The Tutor/Mentor Conference held in Chicago on May 29 and 30 was a success. More than 120 people attended. I know I had five or six discussions that can lead to future benefits for Cabrini Connections or the Tutor/Mentor Connection. I'm now in Atlanta for the National Conference on Volunteerism and Community Service and more than 1500 pepole are here.
Yet, I don't think I'll have any more valuable conversations at this event, than at my Chicago event, because the way the conference is set up, it does not help people who might want to connect with each other, find each other. In the http://www.tutormentorconference.org site I have an attendee list which is intended to help with this networking.
At some point I'd like to see face to face conferences supported by Ning.com discussions, so there can be more intereaction, more in-depth discussion, and more collaboration after the event.
- At 10:39pm on April 28, 2008,
Daniel Bassill said…
- The front page of the Chicago Tribune had a story titled Hidden Wounds of Violence, which illustrated how the warfare going on in inner city neighborhoods has a destructive impact on a child's hopes, aspirations and ability to learn. I wrote about it on my blog today.
This story was a bit more personal than others because the neighborhood the story focused on is the one where my program operates, Cabrini Green, and the youth interviewed is the younger brother of a youth already in my program.
In the article the mother talks about how she tries to get her kids away from the negatives by enrolling them in tutoring and mentoring programs.
It frustrates me when I know these programs can offer benefit, and I also know that most kids don't have access because there are no programs in their neighborhood. The media and polititians just talk about the problem, and do little to help us get the resources we need to operate and maintain connections between kids, volunteers and the program.
Thus, I appreciate the praise, but my hope is that you'll share good thoughts about what I'm doing in other circles, too, so we can draw more people from more places into this war for the future of our kids.
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