Administrators who can create cultures that combine high levels of challenge and support are more likely to foster higher levels of educator success. Authors?Wendy Anderson and Kathy Schuh share effective leadership methods to support new teacher efficacy, including balancing autonomy with feedback, professionalism with self-care, and risk with…

Growing up with the Internet and social media, Millennials are notoriously fluent in tech-based communication (emails, texts, apps). Yet, as research and anecdotal evidence suggests, their interpersonal skills have taken a hit. Education professor Jacqueline Darvin shares how principals are working with novice teachers to improve their…

Being a new teacher is especially stressful and overwhelming: classroom management challenges, lack of administrator support, work-related stress, and feelings of isolation are pushing some to leave the profession all too soon. There are five actions, however, that principals can take to make new teachers a priority now, explain the authors of…

Beginning teachers enter the classroom with diverse backgrounds, training, expectations, and needs. Yet too often, write the authors, induction programs resemble a one-size-fits-all poncho rather than a well-tailored coat. Reviewing the research, the authors write that high-quality mentors, a focus on improving instruction, and allocated time are…

Today more than ever, effective schools need to cultivate teacher leadership. Principals must meet multiple demands from many sources; they cannot be expected to be experts in all subject areas; and their tenure in a given school is often shorter than that of teachers. As novice teachers gain experience, they often develop the urge to extend their…

Discusses research on new-teacher induction from the Project on Next Generation of Teachers at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Describes three types of school-based professional cultures: veteran-oriented, novice-oriented, and integrated. Emphasizes the importance of organized onsite, ongoing support for new teachers. (PKP)