3 Proven Strategies to Help Your Novice Teachers Thrive!

New teachers, career changers, paraprofessionals, and long-term subs are teaching in record numbers. As leaders, we want to ensure that our novice teachers are effective, feel supported, and are excited to continue teaching at our schools. HOW?

EdConnective experts provide leaders with practical strategies to ensure novice teachers are equipped to make an immediate and meaningful impact on student achievement. After seeing the research, leaders will have a formula to:

• Maximize professional learning time invested in new teacher development

• Overcome capacity constraints for new teacher support

• Implement simple, proven strategies to help new teachers gain proficiency quickly

Research has shown repeatedly that novice teachers can perform at the level of a fifth-year teacher with the right development, and our experience has confirmed this. We regularly experience improvement in student engagement, mastery, and belonging in our work with teachers. In this session, you’ll learn how you can apply these strategies with your own faculty this school year.

Special Opportunity! Meet with a coach to discuss your own situation - invest 20 minutes and gain insights for weeks!

Culturally Responsive Leadership: Cultivating a Differentiated Learning Environment Where Teachers Thrive!

Empowering teachers to maximize student outcomes is a big part of being a K-12 leader. Differentiated instruction is as critical as ever, with fewer teachers, larger class sizes, and diverse populations of students with a range of learning styles and needs. Supporting teachers with so many factors at play is no small task!

During this interactive edWebinar, EdConnective expert coaches will guide participants t0:

• Identify bite-sized strategies you can implement immediately to establish a building-wide culture that meets the needs of all students

• Intentionally build the capacity for teachers to incorporate differentiation strategies to close learning gaps

Participant’s Guide: Follow along by downloading the Participant’s Guide

Retaining Teachers Through Listening and Empowerment

Where education leaders have faced teacher shortages, burnout, and changing classroom environments, retention is now top of mind. Teachers who feel supported are more likely to experience satisfaction and joy in teaching. In this edWebinar for school and district leaders, EdConnective expert coaches introduce practical, bite-sized strategies to support teachers through listening and empowerment. This webinar includes:

• Discussion of the importance of locus of control in empowering teachers

• Effective systems to increase teacher voice and maximize retention

• Practice reframing and listening strategies to build trust with teachers

After this session, viewers understand some key motivators for teachers (and why they’re leaving at a high rate!), are able to apply an asset-oriented mindset to supporting teachers, and have a better understanding of how teachers can find empowerment from the support of a leader who not only listens, but also understands how to keep a growth mindset focused on the controllable.

Participant’s Guide: Follow along by downloading the Participant’s Guide.

Post-event Survey with OFFER to receive a complimentary assessment of your New Teacher Induction Program or your Professional Learning Support Program for Teachers.

Trauma Informed Leadership: Practical Strategies for Lead Educators (EdWebinar Recording)

Education leaders are struggling to find practical ways to support teachers. Teachers need to feel supported in ways that "supports" like new curriculum or new technology don't provide, mostly because those supports feel like "one more thing to do."

Through a lens of equity, EdConnective instructional coaches Dr. Natasha Ward (EdD) and Destiny Shantell Woodbury (M.Ed) provide practical strategies for lead educators to truly support teachers. This session will cover topics such as:

• Building Strong and Supportive Relationships

• Empowering Educators’ Agency

• Exploring Individual and Community Identities

Download: Follow along by downloading the Participant’s Guide.

Bonus supplement: Exploring Identity Markers Guide

Teacher Self-care: Reducing Burn-out as a Lead Educator

Teachers are feeling stressed, overwhelmed, and while putting students first find it almost impossible to take time for themselves. Lead Educators are in a difficult position in supporting teachers, and what about their own self-care?!? Lauren Vargas (M.EdL) shares practical advice for school and district leaders to support teacher self-care including:

• Turning Self-care talk into self-care action

• The role of school leaders in reducing teacher stress

• Simplification and Flexibility

• Promoting a healthy work-life balance (leaders included!)