Retaining Effective Teachers: A Guide for Hiring, Induction, and Support

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Retaining Effective Teachers provides all administrators with step-by-step strategies for hiring and keeping the best teachers. Teachers who serve on search committees and as teacher leaders will value the book as a guide for inducting and mentoring their new colleagues. The author has summarized the most useful research on hiring, induction, mentoring, and teacher support. The many appendices can be used immediately to ask behavior-based interview questions that determine the strongest candidates. Those who lead the induction programs have ready-made lessons and resources for improving orientation, seminars, and mentor training. The research on working with millennial teachers provides insights into ways to support them as high-performing teachers. Excellent summaries of how to observe and supervise teachers provide school leaders with collaborative ways to support and retain their faculties. This book presents a common-sense approach for developing district and school retention plans that will retain the most effective teachers needed in todays and tomorrows schools. The strategies outlined in the book create help to create schools as high-quality workplaces that will retain teachers.

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Mary Clement writes in a very readable, clear manner that makes it easy for busy professionals to access the guidance she provides. While the information and ideas in her book are practical and approachable, she uses a solid base of deep research to support her suggestions. The Summary Points for Success at the end of each chapter and the many useful tools in the appendices alone would make this publication a useful reference for building and district level administrators. As I read the book, I found myself making notes of ideas and templates to use in my hiring and induction of teachers. I know I will share this book with fellow administrators in my district. -- Eppie Snider, EdS, principal, Sonoraville Elementary School, GA
I love and want to help children is a powerful expression, I hear from many teacher-candidates. Seeing-to-it that this declaration of love of children and high regard for teaching remains for years, even decades is what Retaining Effective Teachers: A Guide to Hiring, Induction, and Support will help schools and their teaching faculty achieve. Mary Clement has authored an excellent book that the leadership in every school should read in order to prevent their many excellent teachers from leaving the profession between 2-5 years. -- Carl A. Grant, author of The Moment: Brack Obama, Jeremiah Wright and the Firestorm and Trinity United Church of Christ (2013) (with Shelby Grant) and Editor of Intersectionality and Urban Education (2014) (with Elisabeth Zwier), Hoefs-Bascom Professor, University Wisconsin-Madison

Author Bio

Mary C. Clement has published widely in the field of k-12 teacher hiring and induction. She is a professor of teacher education at Berry College, in Georgia, and earned her doctorate from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.