Our year is off to a wonderful start! After thoughtful mentor pairings, we kicked off the year with our in-person orientation. We focused on setting SMART +ER goals and discussed the importance of "Just in Time" support. We are continuing our focus on developing positive relationships, providing individualized support, and fostering great teaching through reflection and personalized goals in our quest to ignite the limitless potential of all learners.

Our program is supporting 50 teacher candidates this year:

• 35 Year 1
• 15 year 2 which included three that qualified for the Early Completer's Option (ECO)

Our user-friendly handbook, featuring an organized table of contents, offers a seamless means of locating precise information. We remain committed to enhancing our program, ensuring its unwavering focus on "just-in-time" support, advancing toward CSTP goals, and fostering opportunities for continuous reflection.

Our induction and accreditation websites house an abundance of information for our teacher candidates and mentors, as well as all of the documentation for our upcoming Site Visit.

The NCC Teacher Induction program provides professional growth opportunities tailored to our candidates goals and specific learning needs. We frequently survey our teachers and design learning opprotuties based on their feedback.

All mentors came together for a full day of learning together on Thursday, September 28th.

Some highlights from our day:

• We re-familiarized ourselves with the program standards and shared highlights using Mentimeter.
• Listening and Questions conversations surrounding The Art of Coaching, by Elena Aguilar Chapter were powerful.
  
• Discussed goal setting and observations and learned a great deal from each other.
  
• Completed a poll everywhere using conversation starters and Cultural Proficiency: The Continuum. We role played practicing how to interrupt these sorts of statements when we hear them.
• Set goals on our new Mentor ILP using the Mentor Effectiveness Rubric and the Continuum of Mentoring Practice to reflect on current practice.
  

Mentor Check-ins – Google form will be sent to all mentors in October, Mid Year December/January, March, and End of Year-May

Mentor’s Meet- November, February, and April after school at the EUSD Farm Lab. Focus will include excerpts from Elena Aguilar’s, The Art of Coaching, Adult Learning Theory, questioning and listening, observation and cultural proficiency and more!

The Teaching Reflection & Induction program provides such a wonderful opportunity and added value for our educators. They are fortunate to be able to have high quality mentors, personalized learning, and on time support that is critical at the onset of their teaching career. Our year one, year two, and ECO teachers are very grateful for this opportunity and we thank you for your ongoing support!

As always, please do not hesitate to contact your district lead or the NCC TRI Coordinator, Ashley Tarquin if you have any questions.

The North Coastal Consortium Team