Stories

If we want teachers to be able to deliver what we want for our learners, we must fundamentally rethink how the role is designed. We have to be much more thoughtful about the structures we put in place to help them develop as professionals and teacher leaders. And we have to create a culture in schools that supports them to do their best work. We’re proud to contribute to the Coalition to Reimagine the Teaching Role to ensure teachers are set up to succeed and thrive.

We followed up with two participants of The Elephant in the (Class)room Professional Learning Experience, Janelle and Anna, who were especially vocal about the challenges and opportunities the learning experience evoked for them. We explored how the experience supported educators to co-create the conditions so every teacher and student can grow, thrive, and shape their futures.

Across the state, champions for beginning teachers are leading thoughtful initiatives that communicate to aspiring and novice educators — “we are going to invest in you and your students’ future success.” Seeing years of hard work to co-develop fledging programs grow into mature, responsive, and flexible coaching models is rewarding. We are also honored to be collaboratively learning with state leaders designing policy and programs that reflect what we know works in induction and elevates a clear commitment to teacher diversity and culturally responsive teaching.

In this A Conversation With, we spoke with Principal Monica Brady and Assistant Principal Damen Davis from CIS 303: The Leadership and Community Service Academy.

For National Mentoring Month, we sat down with New Teacher Center Director of Program and Partnerships Amy Feehan to explore the pivotal role of mentoring and coaching in fostering teacher satisfaction and success. NTC works with districts nationwide to cultivate

We talked with Camino Nuevo Charter Academy’s chief academic officer on how she and the Los Angeles-based charter school network collaborate to develop structures and processes that increase the level of excellence across the network’s schools.