Current and future education program leaders,
One of the key aims we had when founding the Wikipedia & Education User Group was to create a more formal mentorship structure between established and emerging program leaders. As education programs start, scale, and adapt, there are always new things to learn about running programs. And the best people to learn from are peers in our movement.
We had been planning to launch a mentorship program more formally at the EduWiki Conference in 2020; the pandemic has delayed the conference, but we're launching a smaller pilot of the mentorship program today.
Here's how it works:
* You can volunteer to be a mentor for someone, or ask to be mentored by someone, or both! There may be things you know well that you can help someone else learn, while also wanting to learn new things yourself.
* Fill out the form below. Note we are collecting personal information to match you with a mentor or mentee; please don't put any information on the form you're not comfortable with us sharing with the person we pair you with.
* For this pilot, we're looking to pair people by June 30, and have the mentorship happen between July and December 2021 to see how it works. So please fill the form out by the end of June.
* The more people we have who sign up, the greater likelihood we have someone we can match!
* We will evaluate the pilot in early 2022 and decide how to adapt it in the future.
Fill out the form by June 30:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScqLpGgBCe4ccdUqKhRBs2JGJl76sUhwrODFhs1UPFaZl7eHA/viewformLeave any questions on the talk page of our Mentorship page:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_%26_Education_User_Group/Working_Groups/MentorshipLiAnna
Chair, Wikipedia & Education User Group