Supporting Educational Excellence Through Professional Mentoring

Supporting Educational Excellence Through Professional Mentoring (SEE) An Institute for Current and Aspiring Instructional Leaders October 28-29, 2019 | Kansas City, KS | free to KC educators through partnership between Harvard Graduate School of Education and the Kauffman Foundation

Explore mentoring methods informed by the latest research on instructional excellence, social emotional learning, professional culture, and adult development as you learn to foster teacher professional growth.

PROGRAM OVERVIEW How can teacher leaders support sustainable pathways to professional excellence for beginning teachers? In SEE, a two-day institute led by Harvard Graduate School of Education faculty and sponsored by the Kauffman Foundation, we will seek the answer to this question by developing our professional mentoring practice along multiple dimensions, including Mentoring for Identity and Belonging; Mentoring for Social Emotional Sustainability; Mentoring for Meaning Making; Mentoring for Instructional Excellence; and Mentoring Change Makers.

Throughout the institute, participants will use case studies to explore common benchmarks and roadblocks along a beginning teacher's professional trajectory, learn about adult development in the context of beginning teacher challenges, and consider the impact of mentor supports and school culture. Participants will gain new tools for professional mentoring, including a mentoring feedback cycle and other strategies that take a 360 degree view of professional development by considering identity, belonging, and wellbeing alongside content, pedagogy, and professionalism when mentoring individuals and small groups of student, resident, and novice teachers.

ESSENTIAL QUESTION •

How can mentor teachers and other professional mentors support the development of novice teachers to positively impact education equity and excellence?

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Reflect on best-practices, share signature moves, and learn from others Understand and be able use a variety of practices for professional mentoring Develop mentoring strategies that attend to identity and belonging, social emotional well-being, meaning making, professional development, instructional excellence, and impact.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND •

Veteran teachers who are in a position to mentor incoming teacher cohorts

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Novice teachers who regularly engage with mentors and coaches

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Experienced instructional coaches and mentors

PROGRAM DETAILS

INSTITUTE FACULTY

Supporting Educational Excellence through Professional Mentoring (SEE) is the second institute in a 3-part series where Kansas City educators and HGSE faculty work together to take a lead role co-developing content for a new online Instructional Leadership Certificate (ILC) from the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

These tuition-free institutes aim to engage local teacher and teacher leaders in topics of instructional leadership: •

Making Practice Visible (March 29-30, 2019)

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Professional Mentoring (October 28-29, 2019)

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Instructional Coaching (March 26-27, 2020)

Through grant funding from the Kauffman Foundation, participants work together to surface challenges, excavate effective instruction, tune coaching protocols, and develop research-based mentoring practices. The aim of this on the ground collaboration between HGSE faculty and local teachers and teacher leaders is to bring together experts from the field to learn from each other as they inform the development of an online experience designed to provide learning opportunities for highly effective leaders who want to remain in the classroom.

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Check out Behind the Scenes footage and Practitioner Voices from the March 2019 institute.

Noah Heller, Director, Harvard Teacher Fellows & Lecturer on Education. He focuses on developing effective approaches to practice-based teacher education, teacher leadership and learning, and mathematics pedagogy. Additional research interests include identity and belonging in math classrooms and teacher action research.

Rhonda Bondie, Director of Professional learning & Lecturer on Education. Her work focuses on ensuring all learners are valued, engaged and stretched in inclusive classrooms.

Ebony Bridwell-Mitchell, Associate Professor of Education. Her work combines organizational management and theory, public policy, and education, including school culture and leadership.

Houman Harouni, Lecturer on Education. His work addresses the problem of purpose in education through a multi-disciplinary lens. which informs the basis of his practice in developing leaders.

For more information, contact the Instructional Leadership Certificate team at ppeilc@gse.harvard.edu