Episode Notes:
-Served in a wealth of roles within education from teaching, coaching, to administration.
-Contract work for curriculum companie and Senior Consultant for Learning Forward
-Mentoring Program through Learning Forward- a learning cycle with three parts. 1. Diagnose 2. Coaching Support 3. Monitoring Progress and Reflect
-The mentors only goal is to help the mentee grow professionally. You have to communicate effectively through listening, paraphrasing, questioning, and giving quality feedback.
-Work life balance and time management are two big factors that can be barriers for new teachers, as well as big behaviors.
-We can support and retain teachers through the use of a specifically assigned mentor. Also having a good, collaborative team can be a huge difference in morale and make you not feel alone in this difficult job.
-Monthly mentor/mentee check in meetings are also powerful in supporting our newest educators.
-This job does not get easier, you just get better - because you have more tools and resources in your toolbox.
-Establish strong and trusting relationships. Develop partnership agreements to foster that strong relationship- sets the purpose of the relationship.
-We assign mentors as soon as is possible. We want to be proactive in building that relationship and that they are part of a team and a culture.
-Mentor check ins - agenda - and tailor to strategic points in the year to ensure we are checking in and providing support. Your success is our success!
-Observation and feedback are essential to growing as an educator. Utilize SMART goals between mentor and mentee. Make it timely and attainable, so the mentee can feel that success in a timely manner.
-Coaching is a way to scale your impact, a way to impact more students through educators. Every educator needs a coach.
-If you could fix one thing about this situation, what would it be? If you could wave a magic wand and it would fix the hardest parts of this situation, what would it be? In a perfect world, what would this look like?
Connect with Leslie:
-X: @ldhirsh
-Learning Forward Consulting Services
-Mentoring New Teachers: A Learning Cycle Approach go to LearningForward.org —> Bookstore
Popular Podcasts
Las Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang
Ding dong! Join your culture consultants, Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang, on an unforgettable journey into the beating heart of CULTURE. Alongside sizzling special guests, they GET INTO the hottest pop-culture moments of the day and the formative cultural experiences that turned them into Culturistas. Produced by the Big Money Players Network and iHeartRadio.
Crime Junkie
Does hearing about a true crime case always leave you scouring the internet for the truth behind the story? Dive into your next mystery with Crime Junkie. Every Monday, join your host Ashley Flowers as she unravels all the details of infamous and underreported true crime cases with her best friend Brit Prawat. From cold cases to missing persons and heroes in our community who seek justice, Crime Junkie is your destination for theories and stories you won’t hear anywhere else. Whether you're a seasoned true crime enthusiast or new to the genre, you'll find yourself on the edge of your seat awaiting a new episode every Monday. If you can never get enough true crime... Congratulations, you’ve found your people. Follow to join a community of Crime Junkies! Crime Junkie is presented by audiochuck Media Company.
The Brothers Ortiz
The Brothers Ortiz is the story of two brothers–both successful, but in very different ways. Gabe Ortiz becomes a third-highest ranking officer in all of Texas while his younger brother Larry climbs the ranks in Puro Tango Blast, a notorious Texas Prison gang. Gabe doesn’t know all the details of his brother’s nefarious dealings, and he’s made a point not to ask, to protect their relationship. But when Larry is murdered during a home invasion in a rented beach house, Gabe has no choice but to look into what happened that night. To solve Larry’s murder, Gabe, and the whole Ortiz family, must ask each other tough questions.