Tapping the Potential: Retaining and Developing High Quality New Teachers

A PDF of the full report, Tapping the Potential: Retaining and Developing High-Quality New Teachers is available from the Alliance for Excellent Education (AEE). The report includes federal policy recommendations, in-depth analysis of new teacher induction practices, and four case studies: Connecticut BEST, Santa Cruz New Teacher Project (California), Tangipahoa FIRST (Louisiana), and The Toledo Plan (Ohio).

Tapping the Potential makes the following recommendations: states and school districts should use funds from Title II of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (now the No Child Left Behind Act) to fund comprehensive induction programs; Title II of the Higher Education Act should be amended to require partnership grantees to provide comprehensive induction; and new funding should be appropriated by Congress to ensure that every new teacher in our nation's high-need schools receives comprehensive induction.

AEE also has additional publications and materials available on the topic of new teacher induction.