{"id":11718,"date":"2012-08-17T11:56:13","date_gmt":"2012-08-17T15:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/?p=11718"},"modified":"2012-08-17T11:57:19","modified_gmt":"2012-08-17T15:57:19","slug":"how-hillsborough-schools-are-keeping-more-new-teachers-in-the-classroom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2012\/08\/17\/how-hillsborough-schools-are-keeping-more-new-teachers-in-the-classroom\/","title":{"rendered":"How Hillsborough Schools Are Keeping More New Teachers In The Classroom"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_11719\"  class=\"wp-caption module image right\" style=\"max-width: 283px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2012\/08\/17\/how-hillsborough-schools-are-keeping-more-new-teachers-in-the-classroom\/8-17-fivepercent\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11719\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11719\" title=\"8-17 FivePercent\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2012\/08\/8-17-FivePercent-283x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"283\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2012\/08\/8-17-FivePercent-283x300.jpg 283w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2012\/08\/8-17-FivePercent.jpg 473w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 283px) 100vw, 283px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">duncan \/ Flickr<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Just 5 percent of new Hillsborough County teachers did not return this year. That&#39;s down from 28 percent two years ago. The district credits a mentoring program funded by the Gates Foundation.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Hillsborough County schools are retaining more than nine of every ten new teachers they hire with the help of a mentoring program funded by a $100 million dollar grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>Teacher retention has been a persistent problem nationally, with some studies finding as many as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nea.org\/tools\/17054.htm\">half of all new teachers leave the field within five years<\/a>. Groups such at the <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2012\/01\/19\/miami-dade-teacher-evaluations-insufficient-report-says\/\">National Council on Teacher Quality have also focused on the quality of U.S. education schools<\/a> and district policies.<\/p>\n<p>That turnover doesn&#8217;t help students and the training costs are a drag on tight school district budgets.<\/p>\n<p>Two years ago 28 percent of Hillsborough schools&#8217; new teachers left after the first year. That&#8217;s when the district started using Gates grant money to pair up rookies with veteran mentors <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tampabay.com\/blogs\/gradebook\/content\/weekend-interview-barbara-miraglia-hillsborough-county-mentor-teacher\">who had been pulled out of the classroom<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Hillsborough superintendent MaryEllen Elia says the rookies get tips on classroom management, lesson plans and how to make those plans connect with students.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s just walking through with people new to a career the pitfalls that might occur and then kind of addressing them ahead of time,&#8221; Elia says. &#8220;And then when they do occur, understanding what to do to fix it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Last year the number of new teachers leaving the county dropped to 14 percent. This year it&#8217;s down to 5 percent.<\/p>\n<p>Hillsborough schools have hired 700 new teachers for the school year beginning Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Elia believes the money the school district saves in training could pay for the mentoring program once the Gates Grant runs out.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We actually had people who have left counties in this geographic area to come to us because they want to get that extra support as young teachers,&#8221; Elia says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hillsborough County schools are retaining more than nine of every ten new teachers they hire with the help of a mentoring program funded by a $100 million dollar grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Teacher retention has been a persistent problem nationally, with some studies finding as many as half of all new [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":11719,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[1036,172,317,1067,1016],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11718"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11718\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}