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Improving Retention and Accelerating New Teacher Growth Through Instruction-Focused Teacher Induction

In response to the recent national call to curb new teacher turnover, and the overwhelming demand for more information about the content of the NTC mentoring model, a one day informational session has been scheduled in New York City. The session is designed to introduce district administrators, board members, union leaders, mentors and other teacher leaders to the NTC’s instruction-focused mentoring model, and address key issues related to induction program design and practices.

Click here to download more information and registration. The session will be held Friday, January 26, 2007, 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at Le Parker Meridien Hotel in New York City. For more information please contact Année at (831) 459-1629.

Induction Conference Presentations

Ellen Moir, Anne Watkins & Julie Almquist will be speaking at the Simmons Beginning Teacher Center Conference March 25-27, 2007  at the Marriott Long Wharf Hotel, Boston, MA.

Session 36D: Transforming High School Teaching and Learning Through Induction
Session 43E: Mentor Growth and Leadership Through Induction: An Added Value

Betty Achinstein Receives Distinguished Research Award

Betty Achinstein was selected as a recipient of the 2006 Association of Teachers Educator's Distinguished Research Award for coauthoring a paper with Steven Z. Athanases – "Focusing New Teachers on Individual and Low Performing Students: The Centrality of Formative Assessment in the Mentor's Repertoire of Practice" published in Teachers College Record. Congratulations Betty!

Policy Director Named

The Joyce Foundation of Chicago awarded the New Teacher Center a two-year grant to support the enhancement of its Policy program. The $400,000 grant will supported the hiring of a policy director and support staff to lead the Center’s effort to become a premier policy resource for information legislating and implementing intensive new educator induction programs. Liam Goldrick has been named to this post.

Leaders in Early childhood Education and Teacher Preparation Honored with 2005 McGraw Prize -US Newswire

Ellen Moir Receives Harold W. McGraw Prize in Education - McGraw-Hill Press Release

UCSC Educator Wins $25K Teaching Prize - Santa Cruz Sentinel

NTC Receives $1.6 Million Urban Schools Grant

NTC Receives $300k Goldman Sachs Grant

NTC's Symposium Opens in San Jose

February 4, 2007

The New Teacher Center at the University of California, Santa Cruz, will host its Ninth National Symposium on Teacher Induction, entitled Cultivate the Future Through Sustainable Teacher Induction, February 4 – 6, 2007, at the Fairmont Hotel in San Jose, California. More...

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Ellen Moir Receives Prestigious Award

September 23, 2005

NTC's Executive Director Ellen Moir received the prestigious Harold W. McGraw Prize in Education Tuesday evening, September 27th, at a dinner and celebration at the New York City Public Library. Moir joins Sharon Lynn Kagan and Barbara Bowman as the 2005 recipients of the award. More...

 


Article Recognizes NTC Work with New Administrators

A recent article in the UCSC Currents recognizes the work being done by the NTC School Leadership Development Team to support new principals and new administrators. More...


 
 
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