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Navigating New Roles
April 2025
Whether you’re new to your role or supporting others who are new, professional learning is essential for getting up to speed. This issue includes strategies and advice for a wide range of role transitions.
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FOCUS
The upside of transitions
Turnover and transition are facts of life in schools. This issue shows how high-quality professional learning helps educators make the most of them.
Better than a buddy system: A framework for new teacher mentoring
An excerpt from Learning Forward’s upcoming book describes the benefits of mentoring and how to build mentor skills to conduct inquiry cycles.
Great teachers start with great mentors
Infographic shows the need for and benefits of new-teacher mentoring.
It takes a village to recruit and retain new teachers
A co-teaching residency shows how districts, universities, and communities can work together to recruit and retain special educators in hard to staff schools.
A veteran superintendent’s advice to new leaders: Build your success triangle
A successful superintendency requires building trust with board, staff, and community, with students at the center.
Congratulations, you’re a principal! Now what?
New school leaders can thrive by staying curious, building trust, communicating clearly, and empowering others.
6 things I wish I’d known as a new coach
Role confusion is common for new coaches. To get past it, keep coaching’s purpose – student success – in mind.
Make the most of job-embedded teacher preparation
Align university and district supports for alternatively certified teachers.
TOOLS
To support educators new to their roles, foster a growth mindset
Discover strategies for promoting a growth mindset and practice using language that reinforces it.
Navigating new roles with Standards for Professional Learning
Discussion questions to help you apply the standards as you implement strategies from this issue.
IDEAS
State education agency leads the way on professional learning
A Q & A with Maryland’s state superintendent Carey Wright on creating systems of professional learning to improve instruction.
Abbott Elementary’s lessons for student-teacher relationships
Seeing models of teachers who are "warm demanders" – even fictional ones – can help teachers meet students' needs.
Teacher immersion in math practices adds up for students
When teachers do math together as part of their existing professional learning routines, it boosts their content knowledge, confidence, and instruction.
RESEARCH
To make educational decisions, look beyond one study
Exploring a broad range of research provides educators and policymakers a richer understanding of issues at hand.
Data points
New research on summer learning, AI, teacher morale, educator retention, and opinions of federal policy changes.
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