{"id":5551,"date":"2018-09-30T21:10:17","date_gmt":"2018-10-01T01:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/?p=5551"},"modified":"2018-10-01T01:00:25","modified_gmt":"2018-10-01T05:00:25","slug":"professional-development-highlights-new-mentorship-program-for-new-teachers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/professional-development-highlights-new-mentorship-program-for-new-teachers\/","title":{"rendered":"Professional Development Highlights: New Mentorship Program for New Teachers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Are you a new teacher at ACPS?<\/p>\n

The first year of teaching, whether it\u2019s your first year as a full-fledged teacher in any classroom or it\u2019s your first time teaching for ACPS, is an exciting and adventurous time. Your starting off in a new school with new colleagues, new students, a new curriculum, new processes and procedures and more. We know the culmination of all of these new things can also feel a bit overwhelming, so we\u2019ve created a new program just for first-year teachers with ACPS.<\/p>\n

As part of our commitment to growing, supporting and retaining an exemplary staff \u2014 goal three of the ACPS 2020 Strategic Plan<\/a> \u2014 this fall, ACPS is launching a year-long teacher mentorship program, Growing the ACPS Way. The program is designed to support teachers throughout the first year of teaching at ACPS by establishing a cohort of new to ACPS teachers, pairing each with a mentor and providing learning sessions throughout the year to equip teachers with the information and tools needed for a successful first year and future with ACPS.<\/p>\n

“Unity is strength <\/em><\/strong>. . . when there <\/em><\/strong>is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved.” \u2014 Mattie Stepanek<\/em><\/strong><\/h4>\n

Throughout the 2018-19 school year, new teachers will participate in five interactive sessions specifically designed to assist new teachers in understanding the multiple facets of ACPS that make our school division a unique and rewarding place to teach and learn.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re a new teacher at ACPS, mark your calendar to attend these required sessions. Each are expected to be 90 minutes to two hours in length and are tentatively scheduled for 4 \u2013 6 p.m. on:<\/p>\n

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  • Thursday, October 11<\/li>\n
  • Tuesday, December 11<\/li>\n
  • Wednesday, February 27<\/li>\n
  • Thursday, March 14<\/li>\n
  • Tuesday, June 11<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    We look forwarding to see you there!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Using an \u201cit takes a village\u201d approach, our new mentorship program provides extra support and guidance during that critical first year of teaching in ACPS as one way to grow and retain exemplary new teachers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":4801,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-announcements"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-22 02:32:00","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5551"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5571,"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5551\/revisions\/5571"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}