Welcome to Gateway Induction!
What is teacher induction?
Teacher Induction is a two year, individualized, job-embedded system of mentoring support and professional learning that begins in the teacher's first year of teaching. In California, all Preliminary Credential holders must successfully complete a teacher-induction program to clear their credentials and continue teaching after the initial five-year preliminary credential.
What will my induction experience look like?
Throughout your Gateway Induction experience, you'll meet weekly with a veteran teacher mentor, who will help guide you through setting, enacting, and reflecting on teaching and learning goals and provide you with differentiated collaboration and support. Successful completion and growth meets the requirement for a California Clear credential for California prepared General Education and Education Specialists.
The Gateway Induction Program is dedicated to improving public education by preparing reflective, equity-centered practitioners. Our anti-racist approach for the Gateway Induction Program includes choosing every day to think, question, act, and advocate for racial equality. Grounding learning in justice, hope, empowerment, change and love.
Gateway sees teachers as agents of transformative change in schools and Gateway’s approach to educator preparation and professional learning are aliganed with the same five principles that ground our approach to student learning and growth.
Reflective practitioners: By building on individual strengths and becoming reflective practitioners, teachers can develop their teaching practice and impact students’ educational outcomes.
Focus on agency and growth mindsets: Our growth mindset learning orientation for teachers empowers them to create a growth mindset learning environment for students. And our commitment to fostering student agency is reflected in our support for educators to grow as reflective learners and agents of change in schools.
Grounded in an equity-focus: Gateway’s commitment to equity, inclusive practices, and anti-racist practices underlies how teachers plan curriculum and instruction and build relationships with students, families and colleagues in classrooms and the school community.
Collaborative learning: We believe that collaboration is essential to learning for students and educators. To support effective collaboration for our students, we must facilitate effective collaboration for our teachers. Teachers need opportunities to participate in professional learning communities that collaboratively plan curriculum, assess student learning, and develop strategies for increasing student success.
Inquiry-based, job-embedded learning and growth: Gateway believes that professional development should be embedded in teachers' real work within their classroom and the school and should follow arcs of inquiry. Teacher learning cycles should mirror the same goal-setting, implementation, reflection, differentiation and outcomes-based assessment processes that we expect of our students. In this way teachers are continually reconnecting with their students’ learning experience as they simultaneously deepen their pedagogical knowledge, skills and habits.
Statement of Non-Discrimination
Gateway is an equal opportunity employer. It is the policy of Gateway Public Schools and the Gateway Induction Program to afford equal employment and advancement opportunity to all qualified individuals without regard to or discrimination.
Gateway Induction Anti-Discrimination Policy
Gateway Schools Anti-Discrimination Policy
Partner schools in the Gateway Induction also program abide by non-discrimination policies for decisions around participants in our Induction program, including admissions, retention, progress monitoring and completion.