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PBS NewsHour highlights New Teacher Center’s success with new teachers

by Julie Dodd JEA Mentor Committee More than 300,000 veteran teachers nationally retired between 2004 and 2008. Nationally $7 billion is spent every year to recruit, hire and train new teachers. About 50 percent of all new teachers leave the profession within three to five years. All of these were statistics shared by reporter Ash-har...

New Teacher Center’s teaching induction program provides foundation for JEA mentoring program

by Julie Dodd JEA Mentoring Committee co-chair What’s the best way to structure a journalism mentoring program? That’s the question we discussed when we explored the possibility of JEA establishing a mentoring program. The issue became more of a reality when the JEA board voted in July 2007 to estbliah the JEA mentoring program. The...