Arizona New Teacher Support Program
Participating districts agree to:
- Provide a program lead for the program.
- Select mentors or coaches through an application process that ensures all mentors licensed to teach in Arizona and possess the skills, knowledge, and dispositions to the newest members of the teaching profession.
- Ensure program lead and mentors attend all required trainings and forums.
- Assure mentors support each beginning teacher for a minimum of two hours per week for observation, feedback, and consultation.
- Work with teachers, principals, and district administrators to identify and assist in delivering professional development opportunities for beginning teachers.
Application
The Arizona New Teacher Support Program runs on a two-year cycle and includes tiered funding assistance for those programs, schools, or districts that want to implement an induction and mentoring program. Priority goes to schools with the highest need.
The application for the 2023-2025 program cycle (now closed) is posted below. The application for the next Arizona New Teacher Support Program cohort will be released in early 2025.
Evidence-Based
The Arizona New Teacher Support Program uses the evidence-based New Teacher Center induction and mentoring model. We also align this work with Arizona’s Beginning Teacher Induction Program Standards and Arizona’s Professional Teaching Standards. We invite Arizona districts, schools, and individual district or school programs or departments to join us in this work and build a culture of induction in their community.
Some of the research behind this program:
On Student Achievement
On Teacher Retention
30
programs
are currently in the Arizona New Teacher Support Program.
- Alhambra Elementary School District
- Balsz School District
- Cartwright Elementary School District
- Casa Grande Unified School District
- Cottonwood-Oak Creek School District
- Deer Valley Unified School District
- Flagstaff Unified School District
- Fort Thomas Unified School District
- Lake Havasu Unified School District
- La Paloma Academy
- Littlefield Unified School District
- Littleton Elementary School District
- Leona Group
- Madison School District
- Maricopa Unified School District
- Mesa Public Schools
- Mohave Valley Elementary School District
- Nadaburg School District
- Osborn School District
- Pendergast Elementary School District
- Phoenix Union School District
- Roosevelt School District
- Round Valley Unified School District
- Scottsdale Unified School District
- Sierra Vista Unified School District
- Tempe Elementary School District
- Tempe Union High School District
- Tolleson Elementary School District
- Tolleson Union School District
- Wilson School District
