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Visitor Locations

The Collaborative to Support Initially Licensed Professionals has added a Cluster Map to its homepage to show the location, worldwide, of our visitors.

New Networking Tool

The Collaborative to Support Initially Licensed Professionals is proud to announce a new networking tool available to our new teachers and those who support them.  Works4Me is a Google Group created specifically to provide an interactive social network to enhance professional learning among our members.

For this resource to be effective we need for practitioners to take the time to offer tips for becoming a successful teacher.  We welcome input whether you are a new teacher, a veteran teacher, administrator, or other support resource.

The "Works4Me" link on the main menu bar connects the user to the site.  To become a member of this group, one needs to create a free Google account.  Please take advantage of this resource.

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New Website Design

The Collaborative to Support Initially Licensed Professionals is proud to begin its sixteenth year.  We start the year with the unveiling of our redesigned website.  Our previous website has served us well, but we have outgrown its capabilities, and thus embark on a new display of our vision, mission, beliefs and commitment to supporting beginning teachers and those who support them.

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DPI Beginning Teacher Support Resources Highlight the Collaborative

The Collaborative to Support Initially Licensed Professionals is proud to be referenced in the North Carolina Center for Recruitment, Retention, Recognition and Professional Advancement Beginning Teacher Support Resources website.  Click here to view this site.

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Archives

Listed below are archived news items from or about the Collaborative.

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Z. Smith Reynolds Teacher Retention Convening

On July 29, 2009 Ralph Evans, Director of The Collaborative to Support Initially Licensed Professionals participated in a group discussion of practitioners in the teacher retention field for a day of sharing and learning.

According to staff from the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation, they have been privileged to meet individuals across North Carolina who are working to address the many issues surrounding teacher retention.  Some programs have strong track records of success; others are implementing new, innovative and yet-untested solutions.  Through many conversations, they’ve found a need for better information sharing across programs and a strong desire among practitioners in this field to learn about other organizations’ approaches, successes, and challenges.

Goals for the day included:

1. Share what each organization/institution is currently doing to address teacher retention concerns.

2. Share what each organization/institution has learned so far—both best practices and lessons learned.

3. Encourage and/or facilitate learning about how to measure the effectiveness of efforts to increase teacher retention.

The group included representatives from school districts, teacher education institutions, The Public School Forum, North Carolina Center for the Advancement of Teaching, The Center for Teaching Quality, Connectinc, and representatives from Z. Smith Reynolds..

Participation in this activity was a very enlightening experience and provided insight into resources and strategies which may help The Collaborative to be a more effective organization

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