AT A GLANCE

Headquarters
Santa Cruz, CA

Social Entrepreneur
Ellen Moir, Founder & CEO

Year Founded
1998

Website
https://newteachercenter.org/

Mission:

New Teacher Center (NTC) is a national non-profit organization dedicated to ending educational inequities for all students by accelerating teacher and school leader effectiveness. The work centers around four key pillars: student learning; educator effectiveness; leadership development; and optimal learning environments.

Vision:

New Teacher Center believes in a better, more equitable world. A world where everyone – regardless of circumstance, class, creed or color – has the opportunity to learn and achieve their full potential. This belief is at the very heart of what New Teacher Center does, working to change the odds for students. To help put them on a path to becoming college ready. Career ready. Community ready. Every student. In every classroom. In every community.

Approach:

To achieve this, NTC provide teachers and school leaders quality, consistent, instructional-based support, so districts can create and sustain a lasting, impactful, quality educational environment that will end educational inequity in our lifetime.  NTC does this through core programs in new teacher induction, instructional coaching, school leadership development, and early learning support.  These programs focus on capacity-building support and center around rigorous standards and best practices in Socio-Emotional Learning development.

Impact

Across all of NTC's programs, in school year 2016-17, NTC served more than 40,000 educators and 2.6 million students. NTC’s induction model has been proven to accelerate student learning, improve teacher retention, and affect teaching practice. In recently released impact reports, NTC’s teacher induction model was shown to increase student learning in grades 4-8 by an additional 2-4 months in ELA/reading and an additional 2-5 months in math compared to control groups. NTC-supported teachers are shown to be more effective in engaging their students and using assessment in instruction. After two years of NTC support, teacher retention has also proven to increase by 30% in districts.