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The meeting was recessed at 11:12 a.m. The meeting was reconvened at <br />11:15 a.m. <br /> <br />D. Mentoring <br />K. Nova stated that she liked K. Peters’ idea about having some of the teenagers <br />present at the Women’s Hall of Fame. K. Peters said she is unsure about the target <br />group, but CSW can ask past winners of the hall of fame to come and speak and be <br />mentors. <br /> <br />K. Schneider said she likes the whole idea of mentoring. But how do you get people <br />to gather and how to build relationships and moving on? She likes the concept of <br />the Lifeplan program. <br /> <br />K. Peters pointed out that the Lifeplan program is an ongoing mentoring program. <br />She felt it’s a big goal for the committee to do because it is a different kind of <br />emphasis. CSW can be much narrower because there are particular girls who may <br />be interested in a particular career. Who would be the target group? She felt that <br />one of the weaknesses of what the committee did in the past is there was a specific <br />group of girls who did the mentoring project. <br /> <br />N. Kelly said it may be too much for the committee to do so she suggested <br />partnering with groups such as Lifeplan and girls who have been involved with the <br />system. <br /> <br />K. Peters mentioned that she received a call from a girl at Konawaena School who <br />was specifically looking for a mentor. She was interested in the legal field and she <br />wanted to shadow her husband who is an attorney. K. Peters made some phone <br />calls looking for local women who would be willing to mentor this student. The <br />contacts that she made declined the offer so she is unsure if the girl found anyone. <br />K. Peters wondered if CSW can contact people/organizations and come up with a <br />list of mentors. <br /> <br />K. Cerf said that any professional development teacher has their own curriculum <br />project that says pick a career, contact those people in the community, and ask to do <br />a job shadow project. Many juniors and seniors will have their educators create <br />something like that for them. A lot of times it is specific to the educator. <br /> <br />J. Mecklenburg noted that something that is important with mentoring is to have a <br />frame work for it. It is very helpful to have a program where you have sort of a frame <br />work to work within. <br /> <br />K. Schneider suggested getting people that are willing to do a short presentation <br />about their career and the skills needed that are important to be in that. This would <br />allow the students to be more interested than them making a call and asking to <br />shadow a person. <br /> <br /> 4 <br /> <br />