NTC’s Program Team includes 28 individuals who work with our partners through coaching, facilitating, and capacity-building. Each of NTC’s projects is led by highly qualified personnel, chosen based on their relevant training and experience. 67% of NTC’s Program Team are from diverse backgrounds and/or underserved populations.

In our initial implementation and ongoing support, New Teacher Center works with district and school leaders to: (1) build their capacity to create and sustain the enabling conditions for curriculum implementation; (2) deepen their knowledge of the essential components of the curriculum; and (3) use curriculum-specific tools to monitor implementation and effectiveness. We provide ongoing support for teachers by: (1) delivering initial curriculum orientations; (2) training educators on protocols for curriculum-based PLCs, including observations to ensure implementation of protocols; and (3) offering job-embedded coaching to teachers and/or instructional coaches to ensure the use of effective instructional practices.

NTC’s leadership coaching model equips system leaders, school leaders, instructional coaches, and teachers to support and sustain HQIM implementation by building internal capacity and providing actionable tools. Our coaching extends beyond individuals. Our professional learning sessions focus on the necessary knowledge, skills, resources, and tools that stakeholder in the system needs to ensure the high-quality implementation of curriculum. Leaders receive the learning and tools they need to monitor the breadth of implementation, while coaches and teachers receive in-depth learning around the internalization, analysis of student work, and assessment protocols necessary for their depth of implementation.

Foundational to NTC’s approach is a framework called the Optimal Learning Environment.

This framework was designed based on the belief that every student can achieve high expectations and provides the conditions for effective, standards-aligned teaching and learning.

Educators prioritize knowing their students, having a deep understanding of the content they teach, and collaborate regularly to maximize student success.

Instruction addresses the needs of every learner with ever-present attention to equity and continuous academic, social, and emotional growth.

When students learn in Optimal Learning Environments, they have access to a high-quality, universally designed, culturally sustaining, and evidence-based curriculum, instruction, and assessments.

Initial Implementation Supports

Ongoing Implementation: Support for Teachers

Ongoing Implementation: Support for Leaders

• Traditional District
• Charter
• Private
• Parochial
• Urban
• Suburban
• Rural
• Fewer than 2,500 students
• 2,500 to 10,000 students
• 10,000 to 50,000 students
• 50,000 to 100,000 students
• More than 100,000 students
• Greater than 60% of economically disadvantaged students
• Greater than 20% of English language learners
• Greater than 20% of students with disability
• Greater than 80% students of color

• New Teacher Center has supported every district in Delaware through work with the Delaware Department of Education on New Teacher Induction. NTC has supported the following distrits and charter schools on a deeper level through the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium work.
• Districts:
• Smyrna
• Appoquinimink
• Red Clay
• Milford
• Seaford
• Christina
• Charters:
• Providence Creek Academy
• Kuumba Academy
• Academia Antonia Alonso
• Sussex Montessori
• Aspira
• Odyssey

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