Acknowledgements -- The Concept of Teacher as Mentor -- Personal Rationale: The Making of a Mentor -- Professional Rationale—From Mentee to Mentor -- Academic Rationale: The Mentoring Effect -- Objectives and Benefits of Studying Teachers as Mentors -- Significance of Examining Teachers as Mentors -- Mentors, Teachers, and Schools: A Literature Review -- In the Beginning: Mentoring as Myth -- Definition of Mentoring -- Mentoring for Diversity -- Mentoring and Teaching -- Approaches to Teachers’ Knowledge, Life, and Work -- Broadening the Role of Teacher and Teaching -- The Present Context -- Major Assumptions -- Tell Us What You Need: A Methodology to Examine Teachers as Mentors -- Qualitative Research -- Data Collection -- The Setting -- Methodology -- Participants -- Data Analysis -- The Vessel that Brought You: Profiles of Teachers and Students -- Teacher Profiles: Primary Participants -- Primary Participant Summary -- Student Profiles: Secondary Participants -- Secondary Participant Summary -- It Rests with You: Exploring How Teachers Mentor Students -- Maggie: A View from the Top -- Haley: A View from down the Road -- Anton: A View from the Playing Field -- Rachael: A View from the Outside -- Annie: A View from Student Success -- Learning from Teachers Who Mentor -- Strangers, Fathers, and Friends: Exploring How Students Were Mentored by Their Teachers -- Tanvir: Mentoring as Continued Momentum -- Amandip: Mentoring as Academic Awakening -- Mohammed: Mentoring as Extra-Curricular Project -- Rena: Mentoring as Conversation -- Learning from Students Who Have Been Mentored -- Of Build and Voice: A Critical Understanding of Mentors, Teachers, and the Literature That Describes Them -- Classical Notions of a Mentor: The Absent Parent -- Mentoring for Diversity: Embracing Complexity -- Competence and Duration: A Foundation for Mentoring -- Competence and Duration: Valued by Students -- The Necessity of Mentoring -- Caring through Mentoring -- Reaching the Goal: Achievement, Outcomes, and Risk -- Mentoring and Academic Achievement -- Mentoring Outcomes: Four Possibilities -- Who Is at Risk? -- Teachers at Risk: Objections to Mentoring -- Responding to the Changing Landscape: An Era of Vulnerability -- Mentoring: Worth the Risk -- Some Power Will Inspire You: Continued Momentum—Teachers as Mentors, Teaching as Mentoring -- Inescapability of Mentoring -- Broader Notions of Teacher and Teaching -- Implications for Teacher Education -- Implications for Educational Policy -- Further Research -- Final Thoughts -- References.