Warrior Seminar Mentors
Warrior Seminar is a required, half-credit class for freshmen which helps ease the transition from middle school. The course also allows students to build study skills, explore their interests and strengths, research potential careers and beyond.
Mentorship and Warrior Seminar
Each year, ninth graders in Warrior Seminar explore Career and College Readiness opportunities, and you can help make those experiences meaningful. We invite community mentors to share their time, expertise, and real-world insights to inspire and guide students as they explore their future paths.
Fall 2025
Calling all mentors: help inspire tomorrow’s leaders!
Students thrive when they have meaningful Career and College Readiness experiences. You can make a difference by sharing your time, expertise, and real-world perspective.
One opportunity is the Two Rivers High School Mentor Program, part of the Warrior Seminar course—a class taken by every ninth grader. Your mentorship will help students explore future pathways and see what’s possible.
Mentors
Based upon feedback from business professionals, parents, students and teachers, mentors and mentees meet to discuss:
• Introductions, Mentor background and experience, and topics of career interest for students
• How to present themselves at a job interview, including the application prior to an interview, and the interview process itself
• Transferable skills—how the skills and habits we’re developing in high school prepare us for what will be asked of us in the future.
• What it means to “show up” to work, home, and school
Preparation / How it Works
The main preparation for mentors is to simply reflect on their own stories of the work they currently do now, how they’ve come to be where they are, and how their path(s) may have changed. We’ll then ask mentors to then share with students what it takes to get started in a career field of interest or begin to develop the professional skills needed for any career, by getting that all important “first job.” When mentoring sessions start, the week prior to each session, mentors will be sent a reminder that includes information and other materials as a heads up for the following week’s meeting topic. The main activities of meetings will be connecting with students and facilitating a conversation around the week’s topic (the four bullet points listed above).
Time Commitment
We ask Mentors to meet with a minimum of two groups of 5-6 students for a total of 10-12 students, four times throughout the semester, for approximately one hour and forty-five minutes (2 separate class periods—one group of students per class period) each visit (a total of less than 8 hours across the year). If you can’t make the two-period commitment work for your schedule, please contact Ben Kusch as we can likely work something out.
The time slots we need mentors for this fall are:
• 1st and 2nd periods (approx. 8:25am-10:10am)
• 2nd and 3rd periods (approx. 9:15am-11am)
• 4th and 5th periods (approx. 11:00am-12:50pm)
Dates
Meeting dates for the Fall of the 2025-2026 school year: (mentors select a time slot from above and then meet during that time on the following dates:
- Friday, October 10
- Friday, November 7
- Friday, December 12
- Friday, January 9
Contact Ben Kusch, Lead Designer of the TriDistrict Career and College Readiness Initiative, with any questions, at bkusch@tridistrictce.org
Contact Ben Kusch, Lead Designer of the TriDistrict Career and College Readiness Initiative, with any questions, at bkusch@tridistrictce.org