HAI Teacher Retention Projects

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HAI Teacher Retention Projects
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HAI Staff Retention Program

• By
• Samantha McPhail
• Cedar Brook Elementary School

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Project "Gotcha!"
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"GOTCHA!"
August 2002 May 2003
Goal To provide a means for encouraging and
developing a sense of community and family
amongst the staff of Cedar Brook Elementary and
promoting stability amidst retention of all
faculty and staff members.
Strategies Identify exemplary teaching
practices and actions and reward teachers by
providing gotcha certificates and substitutes
for teachers to attend staff development or
continuing education classes during the school
year.
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"GOTCHA!"
August, 2002
Michele Burta, Returning Teacher Ana Saldana,
Paraprofessional/ Staff Member Julie Trapp, New
Teacher/Staff
September, 2002
Tulia Chong, Returning Teacher Sheila Lewis, New
Teacher/Staff Angelica Guerrero,
Paraprofessional/ Staff Member
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Northbrook Middle School

• Spring Branch ISD

By Teri Owen
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Project Goals

• Retain the highest quality teachers in urban
  schools
• Furnish meaningful support and training for new
  teachers
• Gain a complete understanding of best teaching
  strategies used to teach children of poverty
• Network new teachers with veteran teachers

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Description

• Building teacher unity
• Understanding NMS/SBISD student cultural
  diversity
• Utilizing Data to drive classroom instruction

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Schedule
Book Studies/ Data Gathering
Ruby Payne Studies
Networking
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Strengthening Stratford

• By
• Anissa Myers
• Stratford High School

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Project Strengthening Stratford

• SHS retention of teachers 81.8 from 2001-2002 to
  2002-2003 school years.
• New Teacher Support teachers share concerns,
  celebrations, and brainstorm ideas.
• Building Teacher Unity Book studies, faculty
  retreat, games, and treats.

• Relationships develop
• through collaboration.

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Project LIFT (Lifetime Interest for Teaching)

• By
• Kristi Thaemlitz
• Spring Branch Middle School

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Project LIFT (Lifetime Interest for Teaching)

• Spring Branch Middle School-Retention of teachers
  for 2001-2002-80
• Expectations Novice teachers will continue to
  work at SBMS in 2003-2004 and will be given
  additional support for the significant number of
  low socio-economic students in our urban school.

• Goals
• To provide mentors to novice teachers
• To provide a model of success that can be
  duplicated
• To provide novice teachers with resources
• (periodicals, book studies, discussion)
  involving critical issues, such as special
  education and ESOL

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Teacher Retention Peer Collaboration Program

• By
• Elsye Morgan
• Northbrook High School

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Northbrook High Teachers by years of experience

• Beginning 10
• 1-5 Years experience 33
• 6-10 years experience 23.5
• 11-20 years experience 32.8
• Over 20 years experience 44.2
• Female 63.9
• Male 36.1

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Demographic dataNorthbrook High School
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Program emphasis

• Increase support and collaboration between
  general and special educators.

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Goal

• Improve teacher retention through increased level
  of support and mentoring
• Promote a team-building model that will be
  replicable throughout the school.
• Improve services provided for special education
  students in both the general and special
  education settings.

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Retention and Peer Collaboration Model for
Northbrook High School

• Model is designed to promote collaboration
  between content disciplines and special and
  general educators.

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Goals of Project Activities

• To provide a collaborative peer support model.
• To increase the amount of planning time resource
  teachers are able to work with their general
  education content area counterparts.
• Use the Learning Walk model.
• Improve professional relationships between
  content area teachers and special education
  staff.

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Evaluation

• Evaluations will follow each group meeting
• Pre/post survey results will be shared
• Documentation from Learning Walks will be
  included in the program evaluation.

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Hempstead High Initiative

• Hempstead High School
• Mike Walker

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Mission

• To enhance the level of support for new teachers.

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Objectives

• To foster inspired teaching in novice teachers.
• To provide increased knowledge and skills for
  novice teachers.
• To address areas of concern and points of
  interest for novice teachers.

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Activities

• The Courage to Teach (book study)
• Workshops (classroom management, time management,
  special education modifications, teaching a
  diverse population)
• Monthly Forumopen discussion
• Future Teachers of America sponsorship

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HAIs Next Steps.