Presentation for

Leadership in Social and Contemporary

Issues
Baylor University

Roy I. Jones, Ed.D.

Clemson University
Eugene T. Moore School of Education
Mentoring
• From the Greek word meaning enduring.
• Is defined as a sustained relationship
between a youth and an adult. Through
continued involvement, the adult offers
support, guidance, and goes through a
difficult period, faces new challenges,
works to correct earlier problems or
works to make needed changes.
• Webster’s Dictionary defines mentor as
“a trusted counselor or guide.”
Growing Greatness!!!

• The Antithesis to Mediocrity!!!

• The mentoring process is a critical

ingredient in the success formula to Grow
Greatness!!!
Leadership Begins with a
Vision
• Vision can motivate without providing
direction.
• The emotionally expressed intention to
be the best XYZ is inspiring.
• It gives us something to believe in, work
towards, and identify with.
• A Vision doesn’t always provide direction
or what to do differently.
 What is Servant-
Leadership?
• Servant-Leadership is a practical
philosophy which supports people who
choose to serve first, and then lead as a
way of expanding service to individuals
and institutions. Servant-Leaders may or
may not hold formal leadership positions.
Servant-Leadership encourages
collaboration, trust, foresight, listening,
and the ethical use of power and
empowerment.
- The Servant As Leader, Robert Greenleaf
 Leadership and
Foresight
“The Failure to Foresee is an ethical failure,
because serious ethical compromises
today are usually the result of failure, at an
earlier date, to foresee today’s events and
take the right action…The action that
society labels ‘unethical’ in the present
moment is often really one of no choice. A
lot of guilty people are walking around
with an air of innocence that they would
not have if society were able always to pin
the label ‘unethical’ on the failure to
foresee and the failure to act constructively
when there was freedom to act.”
The Landscape

 In many inner cities, more than half of all

African American men do not finish high
school.
 Ninety-eight percent of African American
children attend public schools.
 African American children comprise 17
percent of the student population but
constitute almost 40 percent of students
placed in special education and only 3
percent of gifted and talented students;
African American males, less than 1 percent.
 African American teachers comprise 6
percent of U.S. teachers.
 African American males comprise 1
percent of U.S. teachers.
 White females comprise 83 percent of
U.S. elementary teachers
 Over 40 percent of public school
teachers send their children to private
schools.
 According to a recent census report
there are more African American
and Latino males spending tonight in
a prison cell than a college dorm
room.
We can, whenever and wherever we
choose, successfully teach all children
whose schooling is of interest to us.
We already know more than we need
to do that. Whether or not we do it
must finally depend on how we feel
about the fact that we haven’t so far.
-Ron Edmonds
The number of male teachers is at a 40 year low
according to the National Education Association.
• America’s three million teachers will
need to be replaced within two
decades, primarily due to retirement.
• Of African American teachers, 37
percent graduated from historically
Black colleges and universities.
Mentors
Instructing
Students
Through
Effective
Role Modeling
The mission of the Call Me
MISTER National Initiative
is to increase the pool of
available teachers from a
broader more diverse
background particularly
among the State’s lowest
performing elementary
schools. Student
participants are largely
selected from among
under-served, socio-
economically
disadvantaged and
educationally at-risk
communities.
To maximize opportunity
and greater access,
students will have the option
of first attending one of our
two-year partner colleges
before transferring to a four-
year institution to complete
their program of study in
teacher education and
baccalaureate degree. In
some cases, the program
may allow enrollment in a
Master of Teaching degree
program leading to initial
certification.
It is expected that a
MISTER who completes
his program of study and
becomes certified to
teach will assume a
teaching position and
teach one year for each
year they received
financial support from the
Call Me MISTER
program.
Call Me MISTER builds on
existing networks and
systems already in place
in the collaborating
colleges and surrounding
schools and communities.
• Recruitment
• Training
• Certification
• Placement
 The Collaboration

Benedict College ● Claflin University ● Clemson University

College of Charleston ● Longwood University ● Morris College
●South Carolina State University
 Two-Year Institutions

Midlands Technical College Orangeburg-Calhoun Technical College

Columbia, S.C. Orangeburg, S.C.

Tri-County Technical College Trident Technical College

Pendleton, S.C. Charleston, S.C.
Two-Year Institutions

Greenville Technical College

Greenville, S.C.
Call Me Mister Conceptual Framework
Mister
An Elementary
Classroom
Teacher
N=200

Teacher Education
Curriculum

Mentoring
Teacher Support/Co-curriculum
Peer
Workshops and Seminars
Village

Identification
&
Enrollment
 K-16 Success Pathways
High Schools

Middle Schools Two-Year

Institutions
Project Middle
Academic Prep.
Passage
Praxis 1 Qual.

Elementary Four-Year
Schools Institutions
Teacher
Direct Instruction
Certification
1-to-1 Mentoring
Leadership Dev.
Call Me MISTER is becoming
a National Model for
successful recruitment,
retention and placement of
teachers.
Call Me MISTER will become a
National Model.

• The program can be

replicable for other
underrepresented
populations.
 The Call Me MISTER Experience
The Co-Curriculum

Project Middle Passage Emerging Scholars Easley Housing Authority

 The Call Me MISTER Experience
The Co-Curriculum

Littlejohn Community Center We Stand for Kids Kellett Elementary School

 The Call Me MISTER Experience
The Co-Curriculum

NASA Pre-Service Teacher Digital Express “Math Out of the Box”

Conference & Institute
The Call Me MISTER Experience
The Co-Curriculum

CMM Summit CMM Leadership Institute CMM Summer Internship

It must be borne in the mind that the tragedy
of life doesn’t lie in not reaching your goal.
The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach. It
isn’t calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled,
but it is a calamity not to dream. It is not a
disaster to be unable to capture your ideal,
but it is a disaster to have no ideal to capture.
It is not a disgrace not to reach the stars, but
it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach for.
Not failure, but low aim is sin.
-Dr. Benjamin E. Mays,
President Emeritus, Morehouse College
 Call Me MISTER
Clemson University
Eugene T. Moore School of Education
Roy I. Jones, Ed.D., Director
Winston E. Holton, M.Ed., Field Coordinator
Mark Joseph, B.S., Teacher, Westcliffe Elementary