This workshop is showing about educational leadership to support those new to the profession, about the importance of fostering collegiality to support women both in education and the union and the role women educators play in encouraging their students.

Papers

• Mentoring for Women - a guide to finding and using multiple mentors, BPW 1999, reprinted by SA Office for Women 2004

• Expectations and Realities of Mentor Relationships, Kathy Lacey. Reprinted from Redress April 2006, Association of Women Educators.

• Wyrd Sistas Mentoring Program Flyer - AEU VIC Branch - developed with information from “Making Mentoring Happen” by Kathy Lacey, Business and Professional Publishing 2001

• Working As A Mentor, Module, Professional Learning and Leadership Development, NSW DET.

• Mentoring New Teachers – Promise and Problems in times of a Teacher Shortage, Kay Martinez James Cook University, 2004.