The Mentor: One Year, Two Teachers and a Quest in the Bronx to Empower Educators and Students to Think for Themselves

From Kate Stringer / The 74: Founded in the 1990s, the New Teacher Center offers a promising mentor model for new teachers. In an effort to measure the program’s effectiveness and see if it impacts teacher retention, the 74 followed two participating teachers in a high-needs school in the South Bronx for one year.