Utilizing Full-Time Release Mentors in a Suburban Elementary School District: A Change Leadership Plan

<p> Mentoring plays an important role for teachers entering the profession. To support them, most school districts currently use site-based mentors who teach full-time, and in addition to their teaching responsibilities, they mentor new teachers part time. The first part of my 3-part dissertation was a program evaluation of the mentoring program, using site-based mentors, for first-year teachers in Northwest Suburban School District A where I serve as an administrator (Chung, 2018). The purpose of this Change Leadership Plan, the second part of my 3-part dissertation, is to propose a plan to use full-time release mentors who would focus solely on mentoring first year teachers on their caseload. Part of this Change Leadership Plan includes survey data from a neighboring district which releases their mentors from all teaching responsibilities. While the majority of school districts use part time mentors, often referred to as site-based mentors, this Change Leadership Plan investigates the additional levels of support that full-time release mentors could offer new teachers in Northwest Suburban School District A. </p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Ed.D. Doctor of Education

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation - NLU Access

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Educational Leadership

Year dc:date.available

2018

Author dc:creator

• Chung, Jhoon

Contributors dc:contributor

• Dr. Vicki Gunther

• Mentors
• Mentoring
• Full-Time Release Mentors
• Site-Based Mentoring
• Teacher Retention
• Elementary Education and Teaching
• Junior High, Intermediate, Middle School Education and Teaching
• Teacher Education and Professional Development

Repository record dc:identifier

https://digitalcommons.nl.edu/diss/333

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:digitalcommons.nl.edu:diss-1348