Strength Based Mentoring

As many of you know, an input mind can often operate like the social media website Pinterest .  I often describe the Input talent I lead with best by sharing:  I asked for a filing cabinet for Christmas at 8 years old.  Even then, I was collecting my favorite hairstyles, articles, dream home photos, clothing combinations and recipes, ripping them out of magazines and storing them in file folders.  I love to collect information! Pinterest has been a great way to honor that and I have put together a board dedicated to strengths.  Quotes and images I find, I pin and add a strength I think I see or hear in the image. Consider your own board on Pinterest, a bulletin board at work or home, or a crafting activity with your mentee finding images and the strengths they relate to. Take a look and please comment on strengths you see as well: Allyson's Pinterest Strengths Board

Asking a Simple Question Can Change Everything for a Student by Mark Reckmeyer Meet Morgan, the kid in class who is always asking off-topic questions. The kid who finds any way possible to distract himself and other students from the task at hand. The one who is typically "managed" instead of being considered one of the learners. Most adults can remember a Morgan in a class they took. In today's education system, Morgan would typically be a student who is categorized as disengaged. Morgan is not alone. In 2014, the  Gallup Student Poll  found that among the 825,000+ public school students surveyed across the country, 47% were disengaged in school. Though the Gallup Student Poll is not a nationally representative sample due to schools opting in to have students take the free assessment on their own, the results anecdotally make it very clear why students' test scores in the U.S. are  falling behind those of other nations  in math (27 th ), reading (17 th )