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

In this feature, for National Mentoring Month, we connected with Jeanna Hawkins, senior program consultant at NTC, to recommend research-based resources related to implementing mentoring and coaching in public schools.

Latinx students bring rich and diverse threads to the complex tapestry that is our public schools. Their cultural backgrounds, lived experiences, and unique strengths infuse our learning environments with a vibrant blend of cultural assets, languages, and histories that broaden our horizons and deepen our understanding of the world. When schools respect, honor, and celebrate the diversity of Latinx students, we enable learning environments where all students benefit.

New Teacher Center (NTC) was awarded a $750,000 grant to support student-centered instructional coaching as part of Toyota’s $6.7M investment to prepare Huntsville City Schools’ students for future careers in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM).

New Teacher Center elects Chong-Hao Fu, Sujata Bhatt, and Jim Mylen to its national board of directors to help guide innovation and professional learning to support systemically underserved students.

This month, we talked with The Education Trust’s Eric Duncan about retention efforts to support educator diversity. He shared his thoughts about creating opportunities for teachers of color to become the classroom, school, and community leaders they aspire to be.

As an education organization committed to social justice, examining how we operate and interact internally across lines of difference is critical to our mission.

This National Teacher Appreciation Week, we share our gratitude for the educators who lend a part of themselves, are champions of students at every stage of their lives, affirm the cultural backgrounds of young people, foster lasting relationships in the classroom, empower agency within students, and so much more. 

This month, we spoke with Dr. Benjamin Houltberg, president and CEO of the Search Institute, a leading voice on the critical role relationships play in teaching and learning and youth development.