For 15+years, NTC has worked closely with Hawai’i’s State Department of Education (HIDOE), beginning with a collaboration designed to establish one of six “new teacher centers” in some of the …

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In our “Bright Spots & Big Ideas in Teacher Induction” series, we chatted with special ed teacher Charlie Josephson about how her coach helped her navigate her first years teaching in Minnesot…

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To retain today’s new teachers, comprehensive induction and responsive, personalized mentoring are key. Learn how Fresno USD uses NTC’s mentoring model to support provisionally licensed teachers.

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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…

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This webinar focuses on building effective induction programs that provide new teachers with two years of job-embedded professional development supported by rigorously selected and trained induction c…

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Our partners in Hawai’i are always looking for “grassroots” ways to co-create, test new ideas, and build local capacity. The Educator Leader Assessment Collaborative, a pilot project to lay the …

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Study after study highlights the negative effects of teacher turnover on students and school communities. And that was true even before all the alarming job satisfaction statistics and headlines about…

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A conversation hosted by New Teacher Center on practical approaches for supporting new teachers even when resources are few.

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Mentors are a critical lever for teacher success and retention. Rachel Baker, a mentor teacher specialist in Calvert County Public Schools in Maryland, shared her journey with New Teacher Center, emph…

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As State Educational Agencies (SEAs) weigh the advantages and disadvantages of embracing this emergent assessment system, it is important to consider the impact such a decision would have on Local Edu…

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We’ve been working with partners to define the unique landscape for change at their sites as a starting place for designing impact strategies — What is the current state of instruction? How would …

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Principals play a critical role in induction by setting the stage for beginning teacher and mentor success, and because new teachers ore often placed in classrooms teaching students who most need opti…

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