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This High School is Doing Whatever it Takes to Mentor First-Generation Students

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In Homer’s ancient story The Odyssey , the goddess Athena, disguised as old man Mentor, reveals to the hero’s son the right path to take. Skip forward several millennia and across the Atlantic to an urban high school preparing teens for life after graduation, and the image of mentor-as-lone-sage doesn’t quite paint the picture.

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Craft Your Career With These 9 Top Professional Development Courses

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You can attend classes remotely without leaving your home or missing time from work or family. Plus, the best classes are guided by proven industry experts. These virtual mentors provide the real-world tips, goal-setting strategies and insights needed to bridge the gap between education and real-world application.

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Representation Matters: 5 Tips for Creating a Business Worth Supporting

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But he persevered, growing the humble collective into a multimillion-dollar enterprise with award-winning training. In the early days, he would open the phone book and call every theater and dance company in the city to promote his drop-in classes. Now his classes sell out. Hartwell knows what hard work looks like.

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3 Action Steps for an Honest Self-Assessment

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You need to surround yourself with trusted friends and mentors who will be honest with you about your performance and what areas need improvement. You are never going to be totally trained or prepared; there is no schedule of required classes. Talk it out. Listen to them. Listen to yourself. You have to make things happen.

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There Still Aren’t Enough Women In Engineering. Here’s What Needs to Change

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She was one of a few women in engineering in her graduating class. Then, when men were hired on, [company leaders] would sit with them and train them and give them all this attention.… She mentors older female students to connect them with women in STEM. “I I felt like they were more invested in the men,” she says.

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8 Proven Networking Strategies of Successful Entrepreneurs

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Doing it this way helped me build a network of highly successful friends and mentors, which in turn helped me build a million-dollar business. —?James Every time I meet someone new, I’ve trained myself to ask the question, Whom can I introduce this person to that could change their life? Make a life-changing introduction.

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44 Ways to Kick-Start Your New Year

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Join a class at your fitness club, an exercise group or a team sport. Find a mentor. Ask questions of mentors and peers. Attend training. Take a dance or fitness class. Make a commitment to fitness. Or, if you can afford it, hire a trainer. Take stock and charge forward. Are any of those battles worth continuing?

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