mentors

March 2022 | Vol.3, Iss. 7 The Powerful Benefits of Mentoring Imagine that you are a high school student interested in meteorology, and you want to learn more about it from an expert in the field. You would like to have someone mentor you so that you can ask in-depth questions about a career that could change your future. This is exactly what Alyssa Tenente, Sharyland High School mentee got to do as part of the Sharyland ISD Mentor Program, modeled after the RGV LEAD Mentor Program. Alyssa spent time with her mentor, Meteorologist, Sergio Puente from [...]

Sharyland ISD held the annual Student Mentorship Pro-gram “Meet-and-Greet & Program Orientation Event, an RGV LEAD Mentor in-spired pro-gram, on January 12, 2022.

January 2021 | Vol.3, Iss. 5 Once a Mentee - Now a Mentor! Meet John Ryan Rodriguez, a native of Mission, TX. Rodriguez graduated from Sharyland Pioneer in 2017. During his time at Pioneer, John Ryan was active in organizations such as RGV L.E.A.D., Student Council, FFA, Band, UIL, and the National Honor Society. Once a Mentee - Now a Mentor! After high school, he attended Texas A&M University - College Station where he was a two-term senator for the university’s Student Senate. In addition to his academics, John Ryan worked as an undergraduate research & teaching [...]

Vol.2, Iss. 2 | October 2020 Sharyland/RGV LEAD Mentor Closing Ceremony As the school year comes to a close, so does the end of special programs. Such is the case with the RGV LEAD-inspired mentoring program at Sharyland ISD. The End of Year Ceremony for the 2020-2021 Student Mentorship Program was held on April 28th at 12:45 P.M. through Google Meet. Corina López-Garcia, Career and Technical Education Coordinator, led the ceremony. “I want to take this opportunity to celebrate the mentorship, guidance, and support you have provided to our student protégés this school year.” A general session [...]

Vol. 2, Iss. 8 | April 2021 Sharyland ISD Continues Virtual Mentoring Program The 2020-2021 school year is wrapping up, but Sharyland ISD is going full speed ahead with their RGV LEAD - Sharyland ISD Mentoring Program. Utilizing the RGV Mentor curriculum, counselors at the Sharyland high schools are supplying mentors with topics of discussion while meeting with mentees. Mentors are given an opportunity to meet with mentees once a month during the lunch period in which they can discuss career skills as well as life skills. Janie Johnston Lopez, RGV LEAD, met with her mentees to discuss [...]

Vol. 2, Iss. 5 | January 2021 Sharyland ISD Reboots Mentoring Program [Pictured above are several Sharyland Pioneer mentors and mentees.] Not rain, nor sleet, nor a pandemic can stop the Sharyland ISD, RGV LEAD-inspired, mentoring program from going forward! Mentors reconnected with their mentees after the mentoring program came to a screeching halt last spring. Yoelia Nava, CTE director, and her administrative staff strategized how to get the program back on track and they concluded that virtual mentoring is the way to go. Mentors will meet during the lunch hours at least six more times before the [...]