New Teacher Notebook serves as a help in recruiting and retaining highly qualified teachers for education professors, public school administrators and mentor teachers in providing a convenient and universal public-school resource for new and international teachers. This book is based upon the principle that when schools of education, alternative teacher certification agencies, and public-school districts provide cohesive and nurturing environments for new and international teachers, teachers are more likely to be successfully recruited and retained within the teaching profession. This book offers information that is universal to public school systems which allows the professional network to focus primarily on specific school culture, expectations, policies, and procedures. The book offers help from the interview to the last weeks of the first year of teaching. Dr. LaNora M. J. Foster is a veteran teacher spanning several public and charter schools in Washington, DC, Maryland, and South Carolina. She has dedicated her career to giving quality instruction to students, building curricula, helping to cultivate school cultures, and mentoring teachers to successful careers. She believes that the provision of a well-rounded educational experience for both students K-12 and teachers is the catalyst and key to a vibrant and fulfilled individual, family unit, and community. Dr. Foster whole-heartedly believes that when public school districts provide nurturing professional environments for new teachers, regardless of their specific circumstances in entering the profession, these teachers are much more likely to to be recruited and retained within the profession.
