TDN partners with NCTR on $6.7 Million SEED Grant Project
The National Center for Teacher Residencies (NCTR) has been awarded a three-year federal Supporting Effective Educator Development (SEED) grant of $6.7 million from the U.S. Department of Education to develop and scale teacher residencies to recruit, prepare and retain highly effective educators, particularly teachers of color, to teach in underserved schools and districts to further address the national teacher shortage. As a partner in this work, Teacher Development Network will develop a teacher residency mentor professional development program that centers the experiences and needs of teacher residents of color and equips mentors of all racial and ethnic backgrounds to be thoughtful, intentional, and efficacious mentors for them ensuring teacher residents of color are ready on day one to be effective teachers of record. Learn more about this exciting and field-changing work here.
UPDATE! A white paper outlining our first year of work and findings is now available. It offers a reimagined ideal of mentor success, four promising practices for developing effective mentor professional learning, and recommendations for using these tools in their own programs. Download it here:
Centering Critical Mentoring In Teacher Residency Programs: An Overview Of The First Year Of An Action Research Project Focused On Creating A High-Quality Professional Learning Program For Mentor Teachers
UPDATE! A white paper outlining our first year of work and findings is now available. It offers a reimagined ideal of mentor success, four promising practices for developing effective mentor professional learning, and recommendations for using these tools in their own programs. Download it here:
Centering Critical Mentoring In Teacher Residency Programs: An Overview Of The First Year Of An Action Research Project Focused On Creating A High-Quality Professional Learning Program For Mentor Teachers
Become a Certified Instructional Coach with TDN
Join TDN founder, Emily Davis, for a year-long instructional online course through the Penn Graduate School of Education. The Instructional Coaching certificate program is designed to help those responsible for mentoring or coaching adults in an education setting deliberately develop and hone the mindsets, skills, and tools that coaches use to guide the learning of others. The program is structured around five core components of effective adult coaching: vision, relational trust, listening, language, and protocols. Over the course of four asynchronous modules, participants will have access to engaging and varied online resources, tools, and real-world practice activities that introduce, guide, and deepen work around the core coaching components.
Participants will meet synchronously throughout the academic year with a coaching expert to build community with other coaches and collaboratively practice coaching skills. The program concludes with a self-directed supervised inquiry project through which participants showcase their ability to use the knowledge and skills gained through this course in their own context.
Two cohorts of the course are offered each year from September-April and January-August.
Visit www.gse.upenn.edu/instructional-coaching to register.
Participants will meet synchronously throughout the academic year with a coaching expert to build community with other coaches and collaboratively practice coaching skills. The program concludes with a self-directed supervised inquiry project through which participants showcase their ability to use the knowledge and skills gained through this course in their own context.
Two cohorts of the course are offered each year from September-April and January-August.
Visit www.gse.upenn.edu/instructional-coaching to register.
TDN Founder, Emily Davis Named Fulbright Specialist
Congratulations to TDN Founder, Emily Davis, for being selected as a Fulbright Specialist in April 2021. Dr. Davis was selected for her knowledge and expertise in the field of mentoring and coaching. She looks forward to connecting with an international partner organization to collaborate on a project in the near future. We will add updates here as we learn more.
Recent Presentations
Disrupting Educational Inequities Through Quality Professional Learning for Residency Mentors . (National Center for Teacher Residencies Symposium, Chicago, April 2024)
This interactive workshop at the National Center for Te will be facilitated by residency leaders who have worked together to define the values, mindsets and skills of our most effective mentor teachers. We will introduce participants to our Portrait of a Residency Mentor, as well as a framework for building a Mentor “Culture of Learning”, methods for engaging active learning and reflection, and strategies for the use of modeling and coaching to support mentors throughout the year. Embracing the value of active learning, participants of this workshop will engage in a facilitated exercise to experience firsthand components of our mentor professional learning curriculum.
How Do You Know? Using Data to Optimize Mentoring and Coaching Programs (ASCD Annual Conference, Washington, D.C. March 2023)
Missed our session at Learning Forward? Join Dr. Davis at ASCD!
How Do You Know? Using Data to Optimize Mentoring and Coaching Programs (Learning Forward Annual Conference, Washington, D.C. December 2023)
We spend significant time developing coaching systems yet have little data showing whether our work translates into positive outcomes. Participants will explore a programmatic impact framework, strategies for gathering data, and methods for using data for continuous improvement. They will leave with tools/resources they can use in their contexts.
The True Cost of Teacher Turnover in Arizona (Phoenix, AZ, October 28, 2022)
Dr. Emily Davis joins Dr. Richard Ingersoll (expert on teacher workforce research), Liam Goldrick (education policy and finance), and Juliana Urtubey (National Teacher of the Year) along with innovative Arizona district leaders, passionate mentors, and inspirational educators to consider the true cost of teacher turnover and how high-quality induction and mentoring can help. Bring your team and come learn about how your school system can better retain and grow educators through sustainable, high-quality induction programs.
The Big Picture: What's Really Going On With New Teachers & Our Profession (August 6, 2022)
Dr. Emily Davis shares her research-based thoughts on teacher shortages and our responses to them. She suggests several things policy makers and school leaders should do to address the situation.
Differentiation to Combat Learning Loss and Accelerate Learning (August 26, 2021)
Dr. Emily Davis joins Learners Edge Chief Academic Officer, Wendy Amato, for a practical discussion about how differentiation is more important now than ever to ensure equitable access and learning acceleration for all students. We discuss strategies for getting started and growing your practice in meaningful and manageable ways with tools you already have at your disposal.
Beginning Teacher Wednesdays Podcast- Mentoring is Essential (November 4, 2020)
Dr. Emily Davis talks with Jen Hawkins of Beginning Teacher Wednesdays about her experiences as a beginning teacher, why mentors are so important for beginning teachers, and what to look for when you are trying to find a mentor in the field of education.
EdTalk Live-Mentoring (August 23, 2020)
Dr. Emily Davis sits down with Umair Qureshi and Tammy Musiowski-Borneman of EdTalk Live to discuss mentoring, its importance, and how to do it well.
Other podcasts and publications:
This interactive workshop at the National Center for Te will be facilitated by residency leaders who have worked together to define the values, mindsets and skills of our most effective mentor teachers. We will introduce participants to our Portrait of a Residency Mentor, as well as a framework for building a Mentor “Culture of Learning”, methods for engaging active learning and reflection, and strategies for the use of modeling and coaching to support mentors throughout the year. Embracing the value of active learning, participants of this workshop will engage in a facilitated exercise to experience firsthand components of our mentor professional learning curriculum.
How Do You Know? Using Data to Optimize Mentoring and Coaching Programs (ASCD Annual Conference, Washington, D.C. March 2023)
Missed our session at Learning Forward? Join Dr. Davis at ASCD!
How Do You Know? Using Data to Optimize Mentoring and Coaching Programs (Learning Forward Annual Conference, Washington, D.C. December 2023)
We spend significant time developing coaching systems yet have little data showing whether our work translates into positive outcomes. Participants will explore a programmatic impact framework, strategies for gathering data, and methods for using data for continuous improvement. They will leave with tools/resources they can use in their contexts.
The True Cost of Teacher Turnover in Arizona (Phoenix, AZ, October 28, 2022)
Dr. Emily Davis joins Dr. Richard Ingersoll (expert on teacher workforce research), Liam Goldrick (education policy and finance), and Juliana Urtubey (National Teacher of the Year) along with innovative Arizona district leaders, passionate mentors, and inspirational educators to consider the true cost of teacher turnover and how high-quality induction and mentoring can help. Bring your team and come learn about how your school system can better retain and grow educators through sustainable, high-quality induction programs.
The Big Picture: What's Really Going On With New Teachers & Our Profession (August 6, 2022)
Dr. Emily Davis shares her research-based thoughts on teacher shortages and our responses to them. She suggests several things policy makers and school leaders should do to address the situation.
Differentiation to Combat Learning Loss and Accelerate Learning (August 26, 2021)
Dr. Emily Davis joins Learners Edge Chief Academic Officer, Wendy Amato, for a practical discussion about how differentiation is more important now than ever to ensure equitable access and learning acceleration for all students. We discuss strategies for getting started and growing your practice in meaningful and manageable ways with tools you already have at your disposal.
Beginning Teacher Wednesdays Podcast- Mentoring is Essential (November 4, 2020)
Dr. Emily Davis talks with Jen Hawkins of Beginning Teacher Wednesdays about her experiences as a beginning teacher, why mentors are so important for beginning teachers, and what to look for when you are trying to find a mentor in the field of education.
EdTalk Live-Mentoring (August 23, 2020)
Dr. Emily Davis sits down with Umair Qureshi and Tammy Musiowski-Borneman of EdTalk Live to discuss mentoring, its importance, and how to do it well.
Other podcasts and publications:
- Reimagining Mentor Professional Learning Webinar. National Center for Teacher Residencies (February 2024).
- Data-Based Coaching Webinar. LEAD LFFL.
- 3Ps in a Pod: An Education PodCast-S6 Episode 14: Impacting Change through New Teacher Support with Dr. Emily Davis (November 2019)
- EdWeek: Technology Has No Impact on Teaching and Learning (April 2019)
- Class Tech Tips: Strategies for Coaching Educators in the Digital World (April 2019)
- Aspire: The Leadership Development Podcast- Coaching to Enhance Growth (March 13, 2019)
- ASCD Express: Tech Integration Comes Alive Through Coaching (February 2019)
TDN Books on Mentoring and Coaching
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In this much-needed book, experts Emily L. Davis and Brad Currie draw on their extensive experience in coaching and instructional technology and provide concrete, research-based strategies to help coaches in their day-to-day role. Whether you’re beginning a coaching initiative or looking for practical insights on coaching in a variety of settings, including in groups and one-to-one, you’ll find the resources you need to overcome challenges and grow your coaching skills.
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Making Mentoring Work is a practical guide for school leaders interested in beginning or enhancing their mentoring programs for new teachers. Readers can use the mentoring program rubric to pre-assess their program and then choose the chapters that correspond to areas of growth. Each chapter provides background research as well as practical steps and tools to make mentoring work in a school environment. At the end of each section, readers will find discussion guides that support program leaders in making the next steps; organizing conversations with stakeholders that will transform and streamline new teacher support programs; and increase new teacher retention and practice.
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