Peer Coaching Media Mentorship Toolkit

In this section, you'll find the questions asked of the Harford County Public Library Staff to inform our planning of this project, as well as to see how much the staff grew in the peer mentoring process.

Along with the Staff Pre-Assessment, we also conducted Parent Discussion Groups to glean what parents need and want. Here, you'll find the questions we asked at the discussion group sessions, along with some best practices for conducting these informal discussion groups in your community.

To increase staff awareness and comfort with being media mentors, we established a peer mentoring structure where six staff were trained as lead coaches in the county. Here, you'll find the lead coach training materials, including the slides, handouts, and explanations of activities for the training.

These are the tools lead coaches used while working with staff - observation forms, packets they handed gave to their peers for later reference, and materials to conduct monthly meetings and a book discussion with the lead coaches.

Find links to the parent tips and app recommendation instagram page created by the Harford County lead coaches, a glossary, and bibliography!