Match Support
When orienting new mentors to your school you will give them this information so they know where to enter, park, and meet.
What is an Orientation Packet
This is who you should contact if you have any hesitation or concerns about matching a new mentor at your school with a student.
Who is my Match Support Specialist?
The ABC's of student selection.
What are Attendance, Behavior, and Commitment?
The agreement the student and mentor will sign together to make the match official.
What is the Mentee/Mentor Agreement?
A fast food chain that promotes a TeamMates fundraiser in September.
What is Runza Day?
A mentor can attend this outside of their regular meeting as long as it is on school property.
What is a band concert, a play, or other activities on school property?
A mentor should check in with and wear this when they mentor.
What is a TeamMates badge?
What is the Mentee Training Handout?
A form that ensures the student wants to be in TeamMates and asks about their interests.
What is the Student Interest Form?
What is the Recognition Celebration?
This is best practice for matches to have if the match is closing. (hint: in person or over zoom)
What is a last meeting?
This is where you can find mentors' contact information, visit numbers, and match information.
What is my school's Google workbook?
These are three people besides facilitators who can nominate a student for TeamMates.
Who are parents, teachers, counselors, self-nominations.
This tab is where you find all forms linked on your school's Google workbook.
What is the TM Forms tab?
What is TeamMates KickOff?
This is an option to connect mentors and mentees at the beginning of the year to schedule their meetings.
What is a Beginning-of-the-Year Kickoff?
It is best practice to send this to mentors at the beginning of each month.
What is the monthly TeamMates email/newsletter?
This is the scale on the student interest form that determines their desire to be in TeamMates.
What is 1-5 scale? - 5 being high, 1 being low.
This person completes the permission form for a student to be in TeamMates.
Who is the custodial parent/guardian?
These are held at schools across Lincoln that engage matches with a presentation or activity to add to their TeamMates toolbox.
What are Connection Academies?
The system that uses an algorithm when assigning mentors.
What is the matching tool?
A guide filled with resources, activity ideas, discussion questions, program policies, and tips on being a developmental mentor?
What is the Lincoln TeamMates Mentor Handbook?
Before you match a student you check here for a permission form.
What is the Waiting Students tab?
This resource is used to help plan a positive final closure meeting to celebrate the relationship.
What is the Managing a Healthy Closure handout?
Each month TeamMates staff sends these out for matches to create together then are donated to a community organization.