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Nurturing new teachers
New teachers have unique professional learning needs and challenges. When leaders address those needs, they start teachers on a path of ongoing career development. This issue examines how to build sys..
Don’t just prepare new teachers, nurture them
Throughout the production of this issue, I have heard outstanding educators lament their first years of teaching. Pointing to their past shortcomings, they blame themselves, saying things like: “I h..
To make a difference for every student, give every new teacher a mentor
I still cringe when I remember my first year as a special education teacher at a suburban high school. I met my assigned mentor during the whirlwind week of meetings leading up to the start of school ..
3 strategies to upgrade your mentoring program for new teachers
Investing in high-quality, effective mentoring programs is a key, research-based strategy to increase teacher retention and new teachers’ effectiveness (Ingersoll & Strong, 2011). But not all me..
To support new teachers of color, build communities, not committees
The Dane County New Teacher Project, a consortium of 17 school districts in Wisconsin, believes that new teacher induction is everyone’s responsibility. To that end, the group pools resources from m..
COVID-19 reshaped new teacher induction — for the better
Each August, Greece Central School District, in northern New York, hosts a new teacher induction program for all new hires, designed by the director of professional learning and a large, diverse commi..
With grow-your-own programs, new teachers find job-embedded support
Like many districts across the U.S., Miami-Dade County Public Schools is experiencing a large number of open staff positions due to higher-than-normal numbers of retirements and resignations in the fa..
For small districts, a regional network holds the key to new teacher support
Many school districts struggle to retain early career teachers, but the challenge is particularly pronounced in small and rural districts (Frahm & Cianca, 2021). The School-University Resource Net..
