Mentoring with Meaning: How Educators Can Be More Professional and Effective

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Mentoring with Meaning, and its forthcoming companion, Making Mentoring Work, will help educators to mentor or to be mentored effectively in our schools. We all have had mentors, those key adults from family, work, and/or schools, who have assisted us in learning. Mentors help us to become good adults, skilled and able professionals, and contributing member of community and society. This book seeks to help everyone, educators in particular, to be mentored and to be a mentor.

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In Mentoring with Meaning: How Educators Can Be More Professional and Effective, Drs. McCray and Cooper have deepened our conceptualization of an often-discussed topic that remains misunderstood. Mentoring is not advising or supervision, but is instead a relationship between a mentor and a protg based on mutual commitment to each others success. This edited volume embraces, documents and explores many facets of mentoring and will be of interest and use to educators working in many contexts. -- Jeffrey S. Brooks, professor, RMIT University
In our ever increasing globalization of technology, economics, education and leadership, Carlos McCray and Bruce Cooper have again taken the lead to provide us all with the necessary information and tools to better equip us in developing successful educators and leaders. -- Stan Kaminsky, clinical instructor of educational leadership, Fordham University

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Dr Carlos R. McCray is the Division Chair and Associate Professor for the Educational Leadership, Administration, and Policy Division. He is the co-author of the books, Cultural Collision and Collusion: Reflections on Hip-Hop Culture, Values, and Schools and School Leadership in a Diverse Society: Helping Schools Prepare All Students for Success. Professor McCray has worked with school leaders and educators in the metropolitan areas of Atlanta, New York City and London, UK. Bruce S. Cooper, Ph.D., is Professor Emeritus at Fordham University, Grad. School of Education, with a focus on research including: (1) politics and policy in education with books, Better Policies, Better Schools, and Handbook of Education Politics and Policy; (2) in private school religious education, with his book, Blurring the Lines, and, "Finding a Golden Mean in Education Policy: Centering Religious and Public Schools, in the Peabody Journal of Education; (3) fixing school problems, with books, Fixing Truancy Now with Jon Shute; and Truancy Revised with Rita Brause.