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Teacher Induction
Program

We understand the challenges of being a new teacher and juggling student engagement, lesson planning, parent communication, and academic achievement.  Ensuring that new teachers have high-quality support allows them to become effective teachers faster and builds their confidence and long-term commitment to the field.

JNTP’s signature Teacher Induction program leverages the talent in each school by training experienced teachers to mentor and support new teachers in early childhood through 12th grade classrooms during the first years of teaching. Over the course of two years, mentors learn the approach, language, standards, and tools of JNTP’s proven, data-driven program, enabling them to support new teachers and also grow in their own practice. The program accelerates new teachers’ effectiveness through weekly 1:1 job-embedded mentoring conversations and bi-weekly cycles of classroom observations, creating time and space for reflection and growth.

JNTP’s proven model of new teacher support helps Jewish day schools develop talent, increase effectiveness of their educators, and enable conditions for well-being, growth, and retention.

Teacher Induction Program
Online New Teacher Orientation, August 2021
Teacher Induction Program

NEW FOR 2025-2026: 

  • We are excited to announce a dedicated Early Childhood Educators cohort to provide training for mentors and job-embedded support for new teachers who are involved in educating our youngest students. Please contact Lisa Peloquin for more information.
  • In some cases, schools may seek direct coaching by a JNTP Visiting Mentor. Please contact Suri Ganz to learn more.

New Teachers

  • Two-year program for beginning teachers (0-2 years of being a head or co-teacher)
  • Weekly 1:1 mentoring conversations (45-60-minutes)
  • Bi-weekly classroom observations 
  • Cohort-based professional learning sessions with other new teachers to address best practices in teaching and learning
  • Tools to set professional goals, analyze data, and track progress

Veteran Mentors

  • One-year program for mentors who have completed 2 years of JNTP mentor training 

  • Three online professional learning sessions 

  • Tools to set professional goals, analyze data, and track progress 

  • Consultation with JNTP staff

Mentors

  • Two-year program for seasoned educators (5+ years of teaching)
  • Weekly 1:1 mentoring sessions (45-60-minutes)
  • Bi-weekly classroom observations
  • Ten days of in-person seminars and nine online evening forums over two years*
  • Tools to set professional goals, analyze data, and track progress 
  • 1:1 coaching and mentor/new teacher “shadowing” by JNTP staff

*Modified for Early Childhood Educators cohort

Administrators

  • School Leader program orientation 
  • Access to JNTP resources  
  • Monthly program updates 
  • Consultation with JNTP staff
Teacher Induction Program
“I’m fairly certain that I wouldn’t be serving in Jewish education had I not had those first years of JNTP support and training.”

Rabbi Dr. Hillel Broder

Head of School, Melvin J. Berman Hebrew Academy
Teacher Induction Program
“I can say with 100% confidence that the teacher I supported felt strengthened emotionally by our time together. In our first meeting together she said that she felt ‘more heard in the one hour of our meeting than she felt since she began teaching.’ And despite the emotion and tears that she often expressed / demonstrated in each of our meeting sessions, each session evolved as we moved from the simple expression of hardships to also how to address, what was the significance or impact of and how to find the entry points to understand the true trigger.”

Sara Edelson

JNTP VIrtual Mentor
Teacher Induction Program

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Teacher Induction Program

Judith Talesnick

Program Consultant

Lisa Peloquin

Senior Program Consultant

Lisa Peloquin is a Senior Program Consultant at JNTP, where she focuses on content development and materials preparation for JNTP’s Early Childhood and Administrator Support Programs.. Lisa holds a B.A. in Psychology, with a concentration in child development, from Penn State and a Masters in Education from the University of Illinois at Chicago. She is currently working on her Ph.D. in community psychology, with a research interest in understanding how school communities can impact educational equity. Lisa can be reached at [email protected].

Tavi Koslowe

Program Consultant

Rabbi Tavi Koslowe is a Program Consultant at JNTP, where he provides coaching to early career administrators through the Administrator Support Program. Tavi has been a teacher and educational leader for the last twenty years in lower, middle, and high school settings. He is currently serving as the High School Dean at the Leffell School in Westchester, NY and the co-director of The Idea Institute, where he supports teachers, administrators, and school leaders in furthering educational practice in Project Based Learning. Most recently, Tavi served as the Judaic Studies Principal of The Idea School in Tenafly, NJ and has held other school leadership positions at the Ramaz School in Manhattan, NY and Yeshivat Noam in Paramus, NJ. Tavi participated in JNTP’s Teacher Induction and Administrator Support Programs. He can be reached at [email protected].

Rachel R. Harari

Associate Program Consultant

Rachel Harari is an Associate Program Consultant at JNTP, where she co-facilitates new teacher training. She is also an Associate Lecturer at Columbia University and a middle school English Language Arts teacher at Yeshivah of Flatbush. Rachel is currently working on her PhD at Teachers College, Columbia University, within their Educational Leadership program. Through her work as a Department Chair for six years at Magen David Yeshivah High School in Brooklyn, New York, Rachel was inspired to study the role of the high school department chair in Modern Orthodox schools in New York City. Rachel received her M.S. in Special Education from Brooklyn College, and her B.S. in English Education from New York University, where she published her research on mathematics anxiety in elementary school students: “Mathematics Anxiety in Young Children: An Exploratory Study.” Rachel is a 2016 recipient of The Covenant Foundation’s Pomegranate Prize, which recognizes emerging leaders in the field of Jewish Education.

Lauren Katz

Director of Development

Lauren Katz is JNTP’s Director of Development, where she oversees the organization’s fundraising efforts and marketing and communications initiatives in an effort to advance JNTP’s mission and strategic goals. Lauren’s portfolio includes strategic planning, donor cultivation, engagement, and gift acquisition. She has an extensive background in Jewish non-profit management with a specific focus on fundraising and development, most recently serving as the Director of Marketing & Communications and Alumni Relations at SAR High School for over four years and at the Ramaz School for seven years as the Director of Alumni Relations. In addition, Lauren worked at the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit and UJA-Federation of MetroWest, NJ in the campaign and planning and allocations departments. Lauren holds a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Michigan and attended the University of Michigan School of Social Work and Jewish Communal Leadership Program. Lauren can be reached at [email protected].