The Sage Mentorship Project is a one-on-one mentorship organization — the largest on UC
Berkeley’s campus — created to address the major disconnect between tutoring and mentoring
programs. Sage mentors aim to build meaningful connections with their mentees beyond
academics. Sage’s ultimate goal is to provide Berkeley and Oakland elementary school students
with a personal connection to their mentors, spending time every week on both academic and
extracurricular activities in order to support mentees academically, socially, and emotionally.

The Sage DeCal is worth 1 unit. The class and mentoring portions of the course will run
concurrently throughout the semester, encouraging students to directly apply the lessons learned
in class to issues that come up while mentoring. This DeCal offers UC Berkeley students a unique
opportunity to critically engage in the theory and practice of education and the mentorship
process while simultaneously applying it. Ultimately the DeCal aims to facilitate discussions
about mentorship and education more broadly to best equip mentors with the tools to support
their mentees.

This course will dive deep into education topics applicable today, discussing how each topic plays
into mentorship and education. By the end of the course, we hope students can:
1. Develop the tools to form strong personal connections with the youths in our community
2. Think critically about the theory and practice of working with children
3. Learn and use pedagogical methods relevant to elementary-age students
4. Recognize the potential legal and ethical boundaries a mentor must navigate