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Direct linkPacker-Williams, Catherine L.; Evans, Kathy M. – Perspectives in Peer Programs, 2011
This article reports on the results of a qualitative study of new African American female professors' participation in a peer mentoring group. Three key themes that emerged from the data included peer mentoring as a vehicle to process and cope effectively with microaggressions, increase positive self-identity and self-efficacy as a scholar, and…
Descriptors: Mentors, Women Faculty, Self Efficacy, Group Experience
Tindall, Judith A.; Chatman, Herbert; Foster, Robin – Perspectives in Peer Programs, 2010
Peer Resources is at the heart of positive youth development. Trained youth serving in roles such as mentor, tutor, mediator, leader, and educator can change the norms of a school and community. Utilizing people as resources is an important concept to embrace. During the last seven years, peer mentors have reduced the drop-out rate of 16- and…
Descriptors: Mentors, Peer Mediation, Peer Counseling, Peer Groups
Desmond, Kimberly J. – Perspectives in Peer Programs, 2009
The mentoring experiences of two pairs of participants, mentor and mentee, were asked to describe their mentoring relationship. The mentors were more experienced school counselors with more than five years of school counseling experience. The mentees were school counselors in their second year, who do not have teaching experience and were enrolled…
Descriptors: Mentors, School Counseling, School Counselors, Teaching Experience
Tindall, Judith A.; Black, David R.; Spight, Damon L. – Perspectives in Peer Programs, 2007
The National FFA Organization's Partners in Active Learning Support (PALS) is a program that utilizes high school members from FFA chapters as peer mentors. The purpose of this study was to examine needs of a sample of PALS advisors and mentors. An on-site pilot study was initially conducted, which included 3 individual interviews with program…
Descriptors: Mentors, Needs Assessment, Focus Groups, Active Learning
Perspectives in Peer Programs, 2007
In January 2006, PAL[R] Peer Assistance and Leadership, a Promising Prevention Program of Workers Assistance Program, Inc. (WAP), received a $30,000 grant from the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP) in order to be scientifically-evaluated on the outcomes and effectiveness of its programs and services. According to the grant, the…
Descriptors: Campuses, Substance Abuse, Student Attitudes, Prevention
Kohlhauff, Sara; Stahl, Jo; Wachholz, Patricia – Perspectives in Peer Programs, 2006
As director of the National Writing Project (NWP) at Florida Gulf Coast University, one of the first questions the author gets from both elementary and high school teachers when she talks about the NWP Summer Invitational Institute is this: "What can we possibly hope to gain from each other as we share our best practices?" High school teachers…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Role Models, High School Students, Elementary School Students
Fetter, Corinne – Perspectives in Peer Programs, 2005
This article discusses Cathedral High School's peer program that involves seniors serving as mentors to freshmen students to help them transition to high school. Students pour into Cathedral from more than 60 different grade schools, and the administration saw a need to connect these students with their peers in order to retain them. The program…
Descriptors: High Schools, Mentors, Family Life, Student Adjustment
