PRIDE Mentoring

CMCSS provides many professionals who support our new teachers: site-based mentors, lead teachers, academic coaches, curriculum consulting teachers, administrators, and professional learning facilitators. With so many supports available, this page is designed to help you learn who best to approach with specific needs.

Categories of Support

1. Site-Based Induction Specialist

Each principal selects a Site-Based Induction Specialist to coordinate mentoring and induction activities at the school level. They work with the New Teacher Induction Coordinator (Tina Smith) to plan and implement site-based programs to support new teachers’ professional development through mentoring and induction.

Your Induction Specialist serves as your mentor for school-specific information and for support in implementation of explicit instruction.

2. Classroom Experts

As part of your embedded professional practice, you will work with classroom experts in your grade level, team, and/or department. These are your fellow teachers who will help you understand the standards, set clear targets, and plan lessons through collaborative planning. Through the collaborative process, you will receive curricular and instructional support from these classroom experts.

3. Academic Coaches

Every school has an Academic Coach who supports all teachers to improve instructional practices and to improve student achievement. Your Academic Coach can help you establish clear goals and work with you through coaching cycles to achieve your desired results.

4. Curriculum Consulting Teachers

Consulting teachers provide curricular, instructional, and assessment support specific to their subject areas of expertise to classroom teachers at their assigned level.