American schools spend more than $2.6 billion annually replacing teachers who have dropped out of the teaching profession. At a Capitol Hill briefing on June 23, the Alliance for Excellent Education released a new report which cites comprehensive induction, especially in a teacher's first two years on the job, as the single effective strategy to stem the rapidly increasing teacher attrition rate.

The report, Tapping the Potential: Retaining and Developing High Quality New Teachers (available at www.all4ed.org), 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).

Representatives from the Alliance for Excellent Education were joined at the briefing by U.S. Senator Jack Reed (D-RI), Tom Carroll (president of the National Commission on Teaching and America's Future), Ellen Moir, Executive Director, New Teacher Center at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and nationally recognized University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education researcher and professor Richard Ingersoll.

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Transcript: Tapping the Potential Release

I. Welcome

Susan Frost, President, Alliance for Excellent Education Video 

II. New Teacher Induction: The Federal Role

Tom Carroll, Ph.D., President, National Commission on Teaching and America's Future Video

U.S. Senator Jack Reed (D-RI), sponsor of Preparing, Recruiting, and Retaining Education Professionals (PRREP) Act of 2004 Video

III. Presentation of Tapping the Potential: Retaining and Developing High-Quality New Teachers

Robin Gelinas, Policy Associate, and Jeremy Ayers, Research Assistant, The Alliance for Excellent Education Video

IV. Research Findings on Induction

Richard Ingersoll, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania Video

View Richard Ingersoll's PowerPoint presentation.

V. Question & Answer

MODERATOR: Sue Lusi, Ph.D., The Alliance for Excellent Education Video

VI. Panel: State and Local School Administrators and Teachers

Ellen Moir, Executive Director, New Teacher Center at the University of California, Santa Cruz Video

Cynthia Foster, Principal, Ponchatoula High School, Louisiana Video

Jacquelyn O'Bryant, Teacher and Consultant Trainer, Toledo Public Schools Video

Catherine Fisk Natale, Ph.D., Director, Educator Preparation and Assessment Unit, Connecticut Department of Education Video

VII. Question & Answer

MODERATOR: Ellen Moir Video

VIII. Close Susan Frost

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Tapping the Potential: Retaining and Developing High Quality New Teachers

American schools spend more than $2.6 billion annually replacing teachers who have dropped out of the teaching profession. At a Capitol Hill briefing on June 23, the Alliance for Excellent Education released a new report which cites comprehensive induction, especially in a teacher's first two years on the job, as the single effective strategy to stem the rapidly increasing teacher attrition rate.

The report, Tapping the Potential: Retaining and Developing High Quality New Teachers, 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).

At the report's release, representatives from the Alliance for Excellent Education were joined at the briefing by U.S. Senator Jack Reed (D-RI), Tom Carroll (president of the National Commission on Teaching and America's Future), Ellen Moir, Executive Director, New Teacher Center at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and nationally recognized University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education researcher and professor Richard Ingersoll.