The Boston Public Schools (BPS) New Teacher Development Program aims to accelerate the academic success of BPS students through rigorous instructional mentoring and coaching to novice teachers.

Since 2006, New Teacher Developers have played and continue to serve in a key role as skilled, experienced teacher leaders who work intensively with first-year teachers on classroom management, curricular planning, building in-depth understanding and implementation of Common Core State Standards, differentiation of instructional strategies, and analyzing student work and data in order to inform instruction.

Program Model

New Teacher Developers (NTDs) are skilled, experienced teacher leaders engaged in individual mentoring and coaching with beginning teachers. They conference, model, co-teach, observe, and provide support in all the areas that are challenging for beginning teachers during their first year of teaching. They support school-level induction activities for new teachers including in-person and virtual coaching and demonstration lessons, and help to coordinate new teacher orientation.

NTDs use tools and documentation developed by BPS and are expected to participate in professional development provided throughout the year to develop their mentoring, coaching, and teacher-leadership skills.

For more information, email: ntdprogram@bostonpublicschools.org