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The Beginning Educator Support and Training Program
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Currently Available BEST Professional Development Activities
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Beginning Teacher Professional Development Activities
  Beginning Teacher Seminars
  BEST Orientations 
   
   

Experienced Teacher Professional Development Activities

Scoring Portfolios - New & Experience Scorers
     
     
 

Supporting Beginning Teachers
* These trainings serve as mentor "update" trainings:
  *Coaching for Instructional Excellence
(one-day training for experienced mentors)
Initial Support Teacher Training (training to become a mentor or cooperating teacher training - District Approval Required)
  Mentor Seminar Series
(supplemental after-school series for trained mentors)
Mentor Training of Trainers
(by invitation only)

*Portfolio Support Training for Mentors 
(one-day training for mentors and open to all interested educators)
 

BEST District Facilitators
District Facilitator Meetings

Teacher Leadership Professional Development Activities
  Master Mentors Previously Trained (by invitation only)
Teacher Leadership Academy (TIP Feedback Sessions)
 Teacher Leadership Academy (invited guests only)

Administrator Professional Development Activities
  BEST Administrator Institute (three-day training)
  New Teacher Induction: A Principal's Role (3 hour overview)

 
   

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