New Teacher Center (NTC) began its collaborative partnership with HIDOE over a decade ago to establish one of six “new teacher centers” in some of the largest districts in the United States. This work started with a partnership with the University of Hawai’i to provide professional learning for mentors of new emergency-hire special education teachers.

Over the next few years, NTC provided programmatic consultation, conducting focus groups across the state to assess existing induction practices.

The state’s induction program is now viewed by Hawai’i’s education leadership as the “heartbeat of the department.” NTC has supported the growth of a state induction program that reflects NTC’s induction model’s key principles and components.