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United High students present "United in Mentoring" program to UISD board
Summary
United High School students described a student-led mentoring program that paired high-school mentors with elementary students and proposed a sustainable schedule of visits; district administrators expressed support and discussed scaling and succession planning.
United Independent School District (UISD) student leaders presented "United in Mentoring," a student-led program that paired United High School mentors with elementary students to build leadership, confidence and academic exposure.
The presentation, delivered at the April 2025 UISD board workshop, detailed how United High students used a Google form and hand ballots to match 5–7 elementary mentees to high-school mentors, then ran themed activities (STEM, fine arts, leadership, ROTC, theater and dance) designed to develop four pillars the students called competency/confidence, ambition, citizenship and leadership. Student leader Jose Flores described the program as "We are the change," and said the group matched elementary students by field of interest and ran small-group…
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