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• A Guide to Developing Paraeducator-to-Teacher Programs
  Recruiting New Teachers, Inc. is a national nonprofit organization formed in 1986 to raise esteem for teaching, expand the pool of prospective teachers, and improve the nation's teacher recruitment, development, and diversity policies and practices.
• Evidence of Inviting Practice
  How Invitational Education is being used in an urban partnership the prepare novice urban teachers to reform the way practicing elementary and scondary teachers in the UTEP Collaborative interact with their students, collegues, and parents.
• New Urban Teacher Collaborative
  Indiana University School of Education at IUPUI is working in conjunction with the Office of Professional Development of the Indianapolis Public Schools (IPS) in an initiative known as the New Urban Teacher Collaborative (NUT-C). A Virtual Community Forum with sections for General Questions, Celebrations, Classroom Management/Behavior, Professional Readings, Elementary Curriculum, Middle and High School Curriculum and Technology supports beginning teachers during their first year in the schools.
• No Dream Denied: A Pledge to America's Children
  The third in a series of reports from The National Commisson on Teaching and America's Future (NCTAF). No Dream Denied addresses the issue of retaining quality teachers in our nation's schools.
• Quality of School Life (QSL) Introduction: Quality of the Educational Workplace
  Cheryl Kershaw and colleagues at the University of Tennessee developed a set of surveys on school life. The introductory brochure, attached as a "zipped set of images of the brochure deals with teacher's perceptions of the workplace.
• The Power of Preparation
  In an inner-city San Francisco elementary school, San Francisco State University graduate students practice-teach at the same place they take their education courses -- a professional development school that is run jointly by university teacher-educators and the school district.