Welcome to the Mentoring Minds app!

Explore an extensive Mentoring Minds Educator Resources library right from your smartphone. Unprecedented access to best practices, research-based strategies, and practical ideas right at your fingertips. Delivers critical thinking as a central component to strengthen student thinking in all content areas and in everyday situations. Supports educators during every stage of instruction (planning, delivery, and evaluation) to meet the needs of all students in their classroom.

App modules include:
• Standards Mastery
• Parent Engagement
• Vocabulary Cards
• Word Play Activities
• Social and Emotional Learning (SEL)
• English Language Learners (ELLs)

Standards Mastery:
These content-specific resources contain the standards, instructional activities, and other valuable resources that empower teachers to deliver effective instruction that results in student mastery while enhancing critical thinking. Access to all grade levels and subject areas provides teachers with content to close the gap for struggling learners and accelerate content knowledge for student who master standards at an accelerated pace.

Parent Engagement:
These resources provide principals and teachers effective strategies to promote parent, family, and community partnerships that support student learning. As schools cultivate these partnerships that invite input, this shared responsibility for decision-making positively impacts student achievement.
• Parent and Family Engagement – Teacher
• Parent, Family, and Community Engagement - Principal

Vocabulary Cards:
Academic vocabulary is a foundational knowledge base that is a necessary component for standards mastery in all subject areas and grade levels. The Vocabulary Cards module includes cards with academic vocabulary terms, student-friendly language definitions, terms used in a sentence with standards-based context, and graphics to support student understanding (when applicable). This resource provides access to the vocabulary terms as digital flip cards and are available for print.

Word Play Activities:
The Word Play Activities module provides teachers with a variety of strategies to teach academic vocabulary at the elementary and secondary grade levels. These subject-specific Word Play Activities offer students varied experiences as they learn academic vocabulary. Teachers can access the Word Play Activities module easily to implement a strategy during instruction to address vocabulary instructional needs. Coupled with the Vocabulary Cards module, these vocabulary activities become less-time consuming to prepare and can be a regular component of instruction.
• ELAR/ELA
• Math
• Science

Social and Emotional Learning (SEL):
Use these resources to develop an environment to support student and adult understanding and management of feelings, establishing and accomplishing goals, developing compassion, development of positive relationships, and making good decisions that fosters effective learning. In addition, the resource suggests ways for educators to help students take responsibility for their behavior. The module features hundreds of ready-to-use interventions and practical, proactive strategies and techniques for behavior management.

English Language Learners (ELLs):
This resource provides techniques and strategies for teaching English Language Learners, including ways to engage parents and recognize the role that culture plays in learning. Help students acquire the language skills and content knowledge they need to engage in learning and successfully meet grade-level expectations.