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This book is packed with useful ideas, strategies, and clear action steps for supporting new teacher induction with a student-centered philosophy at its core. In both translating the research and describing educators’ lived experiences, Amanda Brueggeman has created a timely resource that will resonate with classroom teachers, school and district leaders.

Student-Centered Mentoring: Keeping Students at the Heart of New Teachers’ Learning is a thoughtful and timely book. Brueggeman’s core belief that “empowering others to grow and make an impact on students is important for our future” gets at both a practical and moral imperative: we need ways of supporting new teachers that are compassionate and impactful if we want to change the trajectory of the teacher shortage we currently face.

Student-Centered Mentoring: Keeping Students at the Heart of New Teachers’ Learning is a welcomed resource in an untapped market. Amanda’s book provides specific student-centered strategies, tips, and tools for mentors to utilize while partnering with new teachers to propel student learning. By putting students at the heart of mentoring, new teachers will be provided with ongoing and meaningful support that allows them to reflect and refine instruction based on current student evidence.

Given the complexity of the teaching profession, individuals beginning their career need comprehensive support with systems, pedagogy, and meeting students’ needs while managing their own. There are many approaches districts take to equip these ambitious colleagues. Student-Centered Mentoring: Keeping Students at the Heart of New Teachers’ Learning creates a unique layered process for developing the mentor’s skillset to meet the teachers’ learning needs while establishing the student focus from day one. Undoubtedly, Dr.

Student-Centered Mentoring is an inspiring guide for any educator tasked with supporting new teachers. We all know that being a new teacher involves a unique set of challenges. This book presents a multilayered approach to support the varied needs of new teachers, all while keeping student engagement and growth at the center of mentor-mentee’s collective work.

As we think about teaching and learning in the era of Covid-19, Student-Centered Mentoring: Keeping Students at the Heart of New Teachers’ Learning is essential.  Now more than ever, we have a collective imperative to develop beliefs and habits of mind in new teachers that serve students in meaningful, enduring ways.  Bringing together the latest research on teacher development, trends in teaching and learning, and a robust set of anecdotes, Brueggeman does a masterful job at laying a foundation for those in charge of new teacher development programs.  The way that she advocates fo

Student-Centered Mentoring is a must-read for every mentor, instructional coach, and educational leader! Amanda Brueggeman’s book shares the limitless possibilities of fostering relationships, building engaging dynamics, and creating effective change through mentorships! Her work is both student-centered and teacher-supportive. She illuminates the possibilities of building teacher leadership and fostering teacher capacity. She offers strategies on collaboration, navigating difficult dialogue, and grounding this work in keeping our students at the focus. This book is an educator’s dream!

In the ever-evolving field of education, it is critical for new teachers to begin their careers with the ongoing support and guidance of a mentor. Student-Centered Mentoring offers precise, practical strategies for mentors to help mentees establish systems of beliefs and practices that keep student learning at the forefront of teaching. Envisioning “school as a system with student growth at the heart,” this resource provides readers with recommendations for examining philosophies, scenarios to guide learning, and frameworks to create a deep and sustainable system of mentorship.

This book is a must-have for mentors. Brueggeman advocates for a shift from a traditional, top-down mentoring model, where new teacher and mentor conversations revolve around the most important reason for teaching: students. The author explains how mentors can build the capacity of new teachers through reflective conversations about their existing skills, mindsets, and how to understand and assess the effect their teaching moves have on student learning outcomes.

Student-Centered Mentoring: Keeping Students at the Heart of New Teacher’s Learning is a must read for anyone who is an educational leader or planning to take on a leadership role in the K-12 environment. This tool is full of actionable ideas for the mentors, coaches, and administrators dedicated to developing an authentic and dynamic student-centered culture. Mentors who put these strategies in place will make a lasting positive change in the lives of their staff members and their students.