Mentoring Benefits

The best thing about living in Washington D.C. (besides family and cherry blossoms) is the unfettered access. What do I mean? OMG—on any given day, if you are plugged in, you can attend [...]

#GettingScienceDone A few months ago, I reached out to Dixon Butler, the founder and president of Youth Learning As Citizen Environmental Scientists (“YLACES”), to hear what some of his [...]

Often times mentoring is misconstrued or misunderstood. What exactly is it? Who is a good mentor? When and how do we do this? Read these six ways mentoring builds character and competence.

Just last week, I had the wonderful opportunity to attend The U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s annual conference titled “Talent Forward – 18.” The all-day program was packed with attendees – so much so [...]

In its Great Jobs, Great Lives study, Gallup researched how America can best prepare students for a productive work life. It was the largest representative study of its kind, and included [...]

When Rodney was seventeen, he checked out of foster care and into a homeless shelter. Every morning he would quickly take a sponge bath in the school bathroom before attending his first class. No [...]

How can America best prepare students for a productive work life? How can we address the skills gap? In its’ Great Jobs, Great Lives study, Gallup found that 98 percent of chief academic officers [...]

Patty: This month, I turn to yet another company that is doing incredible work in the mentorship arena, impacting its communities, culture, and employees in profound ways. Below, you will learn [...]

Patty: I’m excited to shine a light on companies that are doing incredible work in the mentorship arena, how they are impacting their communities, their culture, and their employees. [...]

In my first article for Education Reimagined, I reported an extremely significant finding from Gallup’s “Great Jobs, Great Lives” study. Students were twice as likely to be engaged in their work [...]