Introducing Teaching Strategies’s Distance Learning Solution

We'll explore how to take your social learning experiences to the next level to boost engagement, facilitate knowledge sharing, and personalize virtual training for every member of your team.

Developing positive relationships with children and families is essential for nurturing children’s overall development and well-being. According to the National Association for Family, School, and Community Engagement, “High-impact family and community engagement is collaborative, culturally competent, and focused on improving children’s learning.”

As lifelong learners, early childhood educators are often thinking about how to gain new knowledge, no matter how long they have been in the field. As we accumulate this knowledge, it can sometimes be difficult to move from theory to practice. Implementation science can help us build an evidence-based framework for creating an intentional plan to bridge the research-to-practice gap.

Across the United States, many schools face the same problem, year after year: finding math and science teachers. One of the solutions to this problem is to train more teachers. The other solution is to retain educators that are already in the system. Could connecting these educators to mentors ensure they stay in the profession? To help increase teacher retention rates, the I-STEM Resource Network created a network of STEM mentor teachers in 11 Indiana school districts. Throughout 2018 in partnership with other states and 100Kin10, they worked to create a STEM Mentoring Framework. That framework provides a clear guide to others looking to build mentor teacher programs.