By Keith McCoy
Crestline Elementary School and Mountain Brook High School have a distinctive partnership called the Mentoring Education (ME) Program, which finished its second successful year in May.
The ME program is facilitated by MBHS’s Cooperation Education Program, which provides work-based experiences in fields related to students’ career objectives.
MBHS students Molly Bloomston, Brooke Holloway and Michael Matsos applied and were chosen to be positive role models to a select group of eight fourth-grade CES students. They mentored students three days a week and met with CES administrators, teachers and counselors and their MBHS sponsor the other two days for training and accountability. Mentoring naturally flowed out of playing board games, group discussions and Fun Fridays that included walking field trips in the village.
The two schools are currently looking for MBHS juniors and seniors to participate in the 2016-17 Mentoring Education Program.
– Submitted by Mary Evans.
