As of this month, our program serves a growing number of participants:

• 258 Induction Candidates in all content areas at nearly all SUHSD school sites
  
• 67 Induction Mentors representing all content areas at nearly all sites
  

Candidates and mentors worked in content-specific groups to apply reciprocal teaching to complex text for the purpose of building student proficiency in academic language (specifically argument).

Teachers in various content areas applied Reciprocal Teaching (key strategy from Q3 Candidate Seminar) to diverse texts. Thanks, teachers who shared student work: Melanie Villanueva (CVH), Melody Morris (OLH), Peter Morera (ELH), Jay Jones (NCM), and Miriam Carrasco (SUHi).

Thanks, teachers who shared your classrooms and student work: Jiji McKay (CPM), Kurt Ulle (ELM), Katherine Lopez and Margaret Macabasco (SYH), James Goodwin (BVH) and Carlos Elizondo (SUHi)

Thanks, teachers who shared your classrooms and student work: Angelica Angulo (CPM), Kat Lopez & Margaret Macabasco (SYH), Anthony Leyvas (EHA) and Nick Martinson (MOH).

Featured instructional strategy will be a structured jigsaw.

Click here for slides for the Q4 Candidate Seminar

Alicia Johal (MVA Induction Mentor) and Melissa Rains (CPM) shared their collaborative project involving representatives from The Center for Research on Educational Equity, Assessment & Teaching Excellence (CREATE) at UCSD, the San Diego Area Writing Project (SDAWP) and Chula Vista Elementary School District (CVESD). Learn more about their action research here.

Transformational Coaching Rubric (Aguilar, 2013)

Applications for the 2017-18 Induction Mentor Pool were reviewed over Spring Break with the Induction Program's Joint Governance Panel approving the Mentor Team for 2017-18. Candidate needs (site, content area, level (MS/HS), existing relationships and other considerations) drove composition of the Team.