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Mentors make a difference
Middle school teacher Leighann Fields remembers her earliest teaching experiences with mixed emotions. “When I was student teaching, the teacher I worked with had been at the school forever, and she..
Louisiana’s mentor program, by the numbers
Mentoring is a powerful way to build the capacity of new teachers. High-quality mentoring improves new teacher retention, student achievement, and veteran teachers’ leadership. To cult..
Helping hands for new teachers
For quite some time, many of us involved in teacher preparation at institutions of higher education have felt uncomfortable with preparing and supporting our preservice teachers through graduation, wi..
Open the door to diversity
The progression of teacher learning from aspiring educator to accomplished practitioner is multifaceted and complex. Selecting a teacher preparation program is a critical point in this journey, but it..
Pathway for paraeducators
This statement of confidence by a paraeducator came after her participation in Doing the Math With Paraeducators: A Research and Development Project. Funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF DRL..
Teacher leaders create their own jobs
All teachers can lead,” argued school leadership expert Roland Barth (2001), and we need their leadership if we’re going to meet the needs of all students. Schools have become complex organization..
Teachers find their voice
Teacher retention is a continuing concern. One of the reasons teachers leave the profession is that they don’t feel valued or working to their potential. Developing teacher leadership is a positive ..
Leadership, redefined and redesigned
The role of school leaders today is more complex than ever. Just ask principals. Principals juggle a vast array of tasks, including creating and enacting an organizational vision, serving as instru..
ONLINE EXCLUSIVE: Aspiring teachers turn to video
Teacher education programs are critical for preparing aspiring teachers to enter the classroom as well as for increasing the number of qualified teachers in the educators’ pipeline to address the te..
ONLINE EXCLUSIVE: District leaders grow with new curriculum
During times of immense curricular change, district professional learning often focuses on teachers because they are on the front line of subject-specific curricular and instructional change. In contr..
