Eleventh National New Teacher Center Symposium - 2009 Call for Proposals

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Call for Proposals

Thank you for attending our 2008 Symposium!

You can still view our 2008 program online.

Mentors in the Making

Developing New Leaders for New Teachers

by Betty Achinstein and Steven Z. Athanases, Editors

With richly contextualized and thoughtfully analyzed excerpts from actual mentoring conversations and powerful examples of practice, this volume offers educators, researchers, and policymakers a reform-minded vision of the future of mentoring.More... 

Read the Spring 2008 Teacher Magazine piece on Empowering Teachers, an interview with Eric Hirsch who pioneered the Teaching and Learning Conditions Survey.

Also in the Spring 2008 Teacher Magazine read about NTC's intensive mentoring partnership with the Ravenswood School District in Supporting Teachers' Success.

The NTC held a briefing for legislators on Capitol Hill entitled "New Teacher Support Pays Off: A Return on Investment for Educators and Kids" on October 23, 2007. link

Press Release: link

The Goldman Sachs Foundation is supporting the development of eMSS-Math, an innovative, content-focused online mentoring pilot project.

An Education Week article highlights the work of the New Teacher Center and gives an overview of the mentoring process.

A recent Edutopia article describes the work of the NTC in Ravenswood, a challenging urban district.

An article published in the ACSA journal, Leadership entitled "Classroom Visitations Done Well" is available here.

Recent report from AASCU article explores state induction policy. NTC is "leading the field."


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NTC Announces 2008 Induction Institutes

California, Texas and Illinois

As school districts work to develop programs to train and retain the finest new teachers in the profession, the NTC prepares to convene its seventh year of Induction Institutes. The next Institute will be held April 20 - 24 at the Aptos Seascape Resort overlooking Monterey Bay. And, this summer for a first time we are bringing these trainings to Texas and Illinois. More...


NTC Releases NYC Policy Paper

The New Teacher Center (NTC) at the University of California, released its Policy Paper sharing lessons learned from the first year of implementing teacher induction in New York City. For more information and to download the executive summary and paper, visit our NYC Policy Paper page .

State Induction Policies
The NTC has published its initial findings on state induction policies at our State Induction Policy Review page.



 
 
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