When we focus on teachers, students succeed!
Jewish New Teacher Project’s programs develop effective, quality teachers and school administrators to enhance student learning and social-emotional growth. We do this by providing new teachers, veteran teacher mentors and early-career school leaders with skills and the various supports necessary to create what we call Optimal Learning Environments. In such environments, all students can thrive.
JNTP can help support teaching, learning, leadership and culture in schools. Addressing these concerns has been at the heart of our innovative work since 2003. Our outstanding research-based and field-tested Teacher Induction and Administrator Support programs, drawn from the award-winning New Teacher Center (NTC), help Jewish day schools support teachers and new administrators in their multiple roles.
Our Mentoring and Coaching is:
Ongoing
Job-Embedded
Relationship-Based
Instructionally-Focused
Reflective
Structured
What is an Optimal Learning Environment?
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In Optimal Learning Environments, instruction addresses the needs of every learner with ever-present attention to continuous academic, social and emotional growth.
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Educators prioritize knowing their students, have deep understanding of the content they teach, and collaborate with each other regularly to maximize student success.
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Optimal Learning Environments are based on the belief that every student can achieve high expectations. Instruction is strengths-based, culturally responsive and personalized to ensure students meet the demands of grade-appropriate standards.
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Kind, caring and respectful relationships among adults and students cultivate a sense of belonging and identity, and the social and emotional elements of learning are understood to be integral to academic success and personal well-being.
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Optimal Learning Environments are supported by a positive, instructionally focused school climate and provide intellectually and emotionally safe, engaging classroom communities that are personalized and co-constructed by students and adults to support the success of each and every learner.
Elissa Chanales,
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