The Gateway Induction Program engages teachers via an individualized and reflective process to facilitate and foster professional learning and growth. With an emphasis on equity, teacher candidates and mentors build trusting relationships, and together, they identify, navigate and address teaching and learning complexities, biases, and impact, so that all students can experience an equitable, high-quality education.

Research Base

Novice teachers experience optimal learning through reflection-based theoretical models of teaching and learning that promote self-directed learning and job-embedded practice (Cuadro & Garcias, 2020; Hagger & McIntyre, 20026; Korthagen, 2004, 2017 ). Our research base incorporates four concepts:

1. Korthagen’s Core Reflection, a framework to teaching and learning that is grounded in nurturing the relationship between a person's inner qualities and their experiences in the outside world; 

2. Korthagen’s Six Influences of Environment, Behavior, Competencies, Beliefs, Identity, and Mission;

3. Culturally-Responsive Teaching (CRT), which builds connections between students' cultures, languages, and life experiences and what they learn in school; and

4. Zaretta Hammond’s Ready for Rigor Framework.