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 How It All Began
For over ten years, I’ve spent my energy and efforts in providing
coaching, training and mentoring to teachers across the county. It’s
been both challenging and rewarding but most of all, it’s kept me grounded.
Working with teachers and their children gives me first-hand experience as
to the everyday struggles and common pitfalls that force so
many out of the
teaching profession.
Along the way, working with new teachers became a passion. In creating this
website www.newteachernews.com I was guided by the research on new teacher
attrition, how and when new teachers struggle, and what can be done to make
a difference.
What’s the biggest predictor of student success? It’s providing
students with highly qualified teachers engaging in best practices. Join
me in supporting new teachers—through discussion and comradery—in
that goal.
By participating, you are welcoming those who are new to the profession
and renewing those who have lived this commitment everyday.
Your colleague,
Nancy Jo Mannix
Contributors
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Nancy Jo Mannix
Nancy Jo Mannix has been in education for over twenty years. She has taught preschool, kindergarten, primary multi-age, fourth grade, and adult learners. She continues to work with teachers in their classrooms modeling, demonstrating, and coaching best practice teaching in reading and mathematics. Her passion is finding practical ways to support and mentor teachers new to the profession. She is author of the ten books in the New Teacher Collection including, How to Survive and Thrive Your First Year of Teaching.
We must be the change we wish to see in the world.
- Mahatma Gandhi
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Judy Miller
Judy Miller has taught grades 1-6, middle school (6-8), and college (adults) over the past thirty years. This broad range of experience enhances her teaching, giving her an understanding of learning which spans a lifetime. As a literacy consultant, she currently works with school districts around the country on reading and writing in both elementary and secondary schools. In this role, she models for teachers in the classroom and meets with groups of teachers to look at the latest research about brain theory, best practice, and learning theory.
Ring the bells that still can ring.
Forget your perfect offering.
There is a crack in everything.
That's how the light gets in.
- Leonard Cohen
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Bridget Smolcich
Bridget has been a teacher in some capacity for twenty years. She began her career in the kindergarten classroom where she spent the majority of her teaching career. She has also taught first grade and sixth, seventh, and eighth grades, reading and math. Bridget is a reading specialist and earned National Board Certification in 1999. She is co-author of two teacher resource books and kits for early childhood math and phonological awareness which demonstrate her belief in a hands-on-approach to learning. Bridget is presently working at the university level as the site coordinator for an Early Literacy Project. She enjoys working with preschool teachers and children ages three through five with special needs, and is involved in several Early Childhood initiatives to improve teaching and learning in the state
of Louisiana.
"The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards."
- Anatole France, Novelist, poet, and critic
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