A teacher's first year of teaching can feel like a sink-or-swim experience. Instead of making steady progress toward becoming a great teacher, in their first year, many teachers become overwhelmed by the daily demands of their own classrooms. As founder and CEO of New Teacher Center, an organization focused on understanding and meeting the needs of new teachers and their students, Ellen Moir describes three things teachers can do to survive their first year and become the kind of teacher they have always hoped to be.