Specifications include, but are not limited to: Our mission is to empower and support LEAs to plan and implement comprehensive mentoring and induction programs that support the needs of new educators, promote professional growth and learning and are aligned with state and local initiatives Objectives: The Delaware Department of Education seeks to: 1. Empower and support LEAs development of local level plans and implementation of a comprehensive mentoring and induction program that supports the needs of new educators and are aligned with state and local initiatives through a collaborative planning process. 2. Establish a state-wide collaborative community of education practitioners that willingly and openly share resources, assistance, and ideas that increase the support provided to new educators. 3. Support LEAs in the selection and training of highly effective coaches 4. Assist LEAs in the development of “assessment literate” educators who can review student data and use that data to drive instruction in the classroom. 5. Build reflective practitioners who can review their present level of professional performance and use that data to set personal professional learning goals.
