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Teacher Education and Professional Development

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First year teachers

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Collaborations For Success: Teachers, Families, And Funders Working Together, Sarah Samuels Feb 2017

Collaborations For Success: Teachers, Families, And Funders Working Together, Sarah Samuels

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Samuels shows how collaboration with families, colleagues, and funders helped her to survive and thrive as a new teacher. She knew from the start that she could not go it alone and sought opportunities at every turn to work with others.


Leadership And Agency As A Novice Teacher, Clara E. Lin Oct 2016

Leadership And Agency As A Novice Teacher, Clara E. Lin

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Tells an inspiring tale of a new teacher who refused to accept the dreary status quo to which beginning professionals are so often consigned. Almost in anger at the assumption that she was supposed to be miserable for her whole first year, she struggled mightily to find innovative ways to solve her most intractable classroom problems, and then turned her energies to whole-school reform.