Conchetta Marucci

EDUC 450
Final Annotated Bibliography

Barnes, G. (2014, May 24). Seeking safety: Making a difference for at-risk students through mentoring.
Fay Observer. Retrieved from http://www.fayobserver.com/news/local/article_7ddf48fc-d649
5b98-87f6-dfec1a4642d0.html

Summary: Superintendent Roosevelt of the Pittsburgh Public School District tried a new focus to
mentoring sixth grade students. He told Barnes that those are the students that need it most. With the
transfer to middle school and transfer into to having more responsibilities, they are more likely to fall
off the cliff. Pittsburgh School District asked the community for help by plastering advertisements to be
a mentor everywhere they could think of. The first year, 225 sixth grade students were mentored. Since
that first year, the program continues blossoming entering its 6 consecutive year with the initiative. Its
success has been a community effort.

Genre: non-fiction, news

Bashi, V. (n.d.). Mentoring of t-risk students. FOCUS, 26-32. Retrieved from
http://www.irp.wisc.edu/publications/focus/pdfs/foc132d.pdf

Summary: Bashi claims that nothing written about mentoring at any level has said yet how mentoring
works, how well it works, or if it works at all. She evaluates who should be mentors. She also evaluates
studies that have been conducted on various research programs. The conclusion, in her perspective, is
that there is no clear definition for what a mentor is as the evidence is nonexistent. Her piece is valuable
as it dates the beginning of the mentoring craze.

Genre: non-fiction, journal article

Bornstein, D. (2011, October 6). For children at risk, mentors who stay. The New York Times. Retrieved
from http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/06/for-children-at-risk-mentors-who
stay/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=1

Summary: This article is mainly about a program called Friends of the Children. The program is based in
New York and looks to influence troubled students in the city by infusing their lives with an adult from
the community that will take them cool places to do interesting things all the while mentoring them into
learning new skills for coping with life. The program has been successful for most students and they
would like to expand, but will need monetary help from the government.

Genre: non-fiction, news


Gurian, M. (1998). A fine young man: what parents, mentors, and educators can do to shape adolescent
boys into exceptional men. New York: Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam.

Summary: Gurian is worried about adolescent boys in todays American society. He voices these
concerns throughout the book claiming that in order for parents and mentors to be effective in the lives
of boys they need to understand the whys behind the actions or inactions in which adolescent boys
partake. The divorce rate is a concern as it leaves boys without fathers as permanent fixtures in the
home. He says that mentors that understand boys can step in to provide guidance in the form of being a
mentor. Even though boys may be reluctant to accept advice from anyone during this period in their
lives they still have a need and desire for it to come to them. He says they, in fact, desperate for
interaction and connection with someone older than them.

Genre: non-fiction, includes first-hand accounts

Hendricks, W. (1996). Coaching, mentoring, and managing. Franklin Lakes, NJ: Career Press.

Summary: This book is more about managing a team of people who work for you. It does offer some
valuable beliefs and finding about mentoring at the management level that would apply to any setting.
Hendricks also includes case studies that give an interesting perspective about when things work and
when they do not work how to not lose the mentoring relationship that you have built. There is also a
section with reflection questions that can be posed to a mentor to allow them the space to reflect on
their mentoring practices.

Genre: non-fiction, case studies included

Johnson, K. C., & Lampley, J. H. Mentoring at-risk middle school students. SRATE Journal, Vol. 19, 64 - 69.

Summary: This article is about the method and results of a mentoring intervention strategy tried by a
district using the LISTEN (Linking Individual Students To Educational Needs) mentoring program. The
program was a district initiative and they focused on how mentoring these students benefited them
academically. It provides graphs to back its finding which was that mentoring students does positively
impact at-rick students academic achievement.

Genre: non-fiction, journal article

Miller, A. (2002). Mentoring students and young people: A handbook of effective practice. Virgina: Kogan
Page Limited.

Summary: Miller includes several case studies that are helpful in learning a mentors process in
mentoring. He also defines specific types and styles of mentoring and how to use them in ones
mentoring practice. There is a political history of mentoring programs designed and paid for by the
government like GEAR UP. His take on mentoring is genuine and he spent 5 years researching and
interviewing people about their experiences to write this text. He presents mentoring through various
aspects of learning and practice. His focus is the mentor more than the mentee.

Genre: non-fiction, research based, book

Parks, S. D. (2000). Big questions, worthy dreams: mentoring young adults in their search for meaning,
purpose, and faith. San Francisco, Calif.: Jossey-Bass.

Summary: Religious investigation is the center of this book. It is mostly about guiding young adults in
their quest for answers to big questions about the universe and beyond. It provides a different lens on
what it means to be a mentor which could come into play as a teacher being a mentor to a student who
many not have anyone else with whom to discuss such large questions. The points they make about
mentoring and poignant. A lot of their findings about mentoring confirm that reflecting on the practice
on mentoring strengthens the, what they call, mentoring community. Parks believes that the term
mentor is over used and that over use could be detrimental to the true essence of what it means to be a
mentor.

Genre: non-fiction, religious

Seely, B. J., & Paul, D. (1991, February 1). Organizational learning and communities-of-practice:
Toward a unified view of working, learning, and innovation. Organization Science, 2, 40-55.

Summary: Interestingly this source discusses three ideas that they claim people see as contradictory:
working, learning, and innovating. They strive to prove their thesis that these actions are actually related
by defining different methods of working, learning, and innovation according to multiple experts and
their research and discoveries in those areas. They proceed to link them to show that building a
community within a community can foster all three of these things simultaneously. They propose that
building these communities-of-communities will help all three of these actions thrive. They recognize
that they neglect conflicts that can arise within communities maintaining that their focus was simply
prove the value of doing all three together for best results in all three.

Genre: non-fiction argument, magazine article

Zachary, L. J. (2000). The mentor's guide: facilitating effective learning relationships. San Francisco:
Jossey-Bass Publishers.

Summary: This book is a guide to mentoring adult learners; however, there are very valuable ways to
guide mentors in general. Zachary offers examples of ways to engage mentors in various ways. It gives
them ideas for way to reach their mentee to obtain a professional relationship with them. It provides
questions and, almost, worksheets for reflecting not only on the process of mentoring, but the space to
reflect on the current mentoring situation. What is said about the value of mentors in this book further
solidifies that belief that mentors are a valuable aspect in any learners life.

Genre: non-fiction, how-to guide