New Teacher Alliance Partnership

In 2005 CSTP launched an initiative, called the New Teacher Alliance, to further the work of new teacher support in Washington State.  The work, funded by the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation and Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, focuses on keeping our new teachers in our schools.  

 

The New Teacher Alliance is a three-year grant that provides assistance to the districts as they use the Effective Support for New Teachers in Washington State to improve the help they provide to their new teachers. The New Teacher Alliance consists of seven districts and two Educational Service Districts representing the variety of locales, student populations and district size throughout the state. The districts include: Cle Elum-Roslyn, Highline, Mary M. Knight, Raymond, Rochester, Spokane and Toppenish. The Educational Service Districts involved are ESD 105 in Yakima and ESD 113 in Olympia.

Click here to learn more about the partnership.

The standards address five areas crucial to new teacher support:

  • Hiring: Students, schools and districts are well served by hiring policies and practices that honor the unique needs and powerful potential of new teachers.
  • Orientation: New teachers benefit from participation in an orientation to the school and district beliefs and practices—before their teaching responsibilities begin and continuing throughout the year.
  • Mentoring: A strong relationship with a highly qualified mentor is essential to facilitating maximum growth in new teachers.
  • Professional Development: New teachers benefit from engagement in purposeful, ongoing, formal and informal job-embedded learning opportunities that promote reflection, collaboration and professional growth.
  • Assessment for Teacher Growth: New teachers benefit when districts have a carefully developed collaborative assessment system focused on improving teaching practice and enhancing student achievement.

Click here to view the reports based on the above five crucial areas.

 

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