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New-Teacher Initiative in Action

Sustaining Work with New Teachers at Four Sites

Four local sites give glimpses of how they have integrated their programs for new teachers—which were originally supported by New-Teacher Initiative grants—into their ongoing work. More ›

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The National Writing Project's New-Teacher Initiative: A Study of Outcomes, Design, and Core Values

This report from Inverness Research Associates contains four topic-focused sections that discuss benefits to new teachers, emerging practices, design features, and the values and infrastructure that support NTI's work. More ›

The National Writing Project's New-Teacher Initiative Annual Report

Inverness Research Associates analyzes the efforts, progress, and learning of the New-Teacher Initiative over the second year of the initiative (2003–2004). It identifies strategies, practices, and models of new-teacher support, and their preliminary effects. More ›

You Expect Me to Do What? Or How the Boston Writing Project Helped Make Me the Teacher I Am Today

Johna Dowdall describes her first year in her own middle-school classroom. She feared she wouldn't survive this baptism of fire, until she had a chance encounter with the National Writing Project. More ›

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