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Information for Principals

• Check out this principal website designed to offer administrators various articles, tips, and ideas to help support new and career teachers.

• New for principals: Blended coaching: Skills and practices to support principal development by Gary Bloom, Claire Castagna, Ellen Moir, and Betsy Warren.

• WEB STORY - Developing, Retaining Strong Teachers in the Schools That Need Them Most
  Too often, beginning teachers in urban schools or teachers new to urban settings become frustrated when their students don’t respond to them. It’s not that they are bad teachers -- they just may need different strategies to reach out to students and their parents. Dr. Kimberly Higdon believes that quality, long-term mentoring and involved, supportive principals with realistic expectations for beginning teachers are critical in helping new teachers stay in the profession, particularly in urban schools.

• Article - Supporting new teachers: A fundamental responsibility.This article by Gary Bloom and Barbara Davis speaks directly to administrators and provides steps they can use to support the new teachers on their staff.

• Additional Articles and Resources