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Toolkit: New Teacher Support

The Growing Great Teachers toolkit helps school systems provide new teachers support they need - and reorganize the resources to do it

PERSPECTIVEs from new teachers

 

NEW TEACHER SUPPORT: RESIDENCIES AND MORE

Many school systems struggle with a teacher shortage—specifically, a lack of effective educators for the highest-need schools and subjects. High turnover among new teachers is often part of the problem. While school and district leaders want to grow and retain effective educators, most feel constrained by limited budgets. But it is possible to provide new teacher support with the resources school systems have today. In strategic schools, new teachers’ roles are fundamentally different from those of their experienced peers.

Strategic school systems enable schools to create roles with "shelter" (i.e., reduced workload) and "development" (i.e., opportunities to grow skills and practice) built in. These may be "teacher residencies," or simply innovative school designs (involving changes to scheduling, staffing, class sizes, and more) that support new teachers. The Growing Great Teachers Toolkit is based on ERS' experience working with several school systems to reorganize resources for new teacher residencies or new teacher support.

THE GROWING GREAT TEACHERS TOOLKIT

Growing Great Teachers: How school system leaders can use existing resources to better develop, support, and retain new teachers - and improve student outcomes

This report explores how school systems can best leverage their investment in new teachers - with a particular focus on teacher residency models. We share data on relative student impacts, impact on teacher retention, and cost, and provide innovative models for supporting rookie teachers sustainably.

Download the Report

Growing Great Teachers: Toolkit Overview

How can school systems create the conditions for schools to provide "shelter" and "development" for their new, rookie teachers? This overview sets the stage.

Read The Overview

District-Level Assessment

Does your school system have the enabling conditions to grow great teachers?

Assess Your District


Schools Start Here: Professional Learning & Collaboration
Based on feedback from district leaders about which strategies they think are "big bets" for COVID recovery, our Schools Start Here series of guides offers a blueprint for how districts and schools can organize their resources right now, and in the coming years. The Professional Learning & Collaboration guide highlights relevant research, makes recommendations for how to spend federal stimulus funds, and provides concrete examples of scheduling and staffing models.
 
 


Growing Great Teachers Playbook

The Playbook offers five models schools can use to provide shelter and development for rookie teachers of all kinds: pre-service residency models, full-time teachers-of-record, and more. It will be useful for district leaders who want to understand what flexibility and support schools need to implement new models; school leaders can use it to spark ideas for what might work in their context.

EXPLORE NEW MODELS

 

Make-it-Work Planning Tool

School leaders can use this tool to reorganize resources to support new teachers - including budget planning, teacher assignments, class sizes, and other resource shifts - in a cost-neutral way. District leaders should review it to understand what flexibility and support school leaders will need.

Make a Cost-Neutral Plan: Excel Tool

Make a Cost-Neutral Plan: User Manual

Design-for-Excellence Workbook

As a final step, school leaders must plan for how to make new teacher support or residency models impactful - including selection criteria for mentor or guiding teachers, and protocols for collaborative time.

FINALIZE THE MODEL

 

Workshops, Webinars, and Events

Learn about upcoming events and conferences where you can learn more about teacher residencies.

Workshops, Webinars, & Events

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ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

New Teacher Support in Action: Louisiana

For CFOs and School Business Leaders

Tools and Publications by Other Organizations on Teacher Turnover and Preparation

NEXT STEPS

THE STRATEGIC SYSTEM

New teacher support and residencies should be designed as part of a holistic strategy for system-wide change. This means connecting it to other elements like:

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