Induction: Connecting Teacher Recruitment to Retention

This excellent resource was designed to help school administrators, teachers, and board of education members choose from a wide variety of proven practices to attract and retain the best professional staff in this competitive market.

Author: Roberta A. Richin, Banyon, Rita Prager Stein
Publisher: Corwin Publishers
Published: 03/14/2003
Pages: 144
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 11.00h x 8.52w x 0.46d
ISBN: 9780761946762

About the Author
Richin, Roberta A.: -

Roberta A. Richin is a nationally recognized author and educator specializing in improving student learning and safety through professional development. With Banyon, Banyon, and Stein, Ms. Richin is a co-founder of the Connecting Character to Conduct(c) consulting team and co-author of the book and related materials of the same title. Her model for leadership and consensus building is used by public and private schools, law enforcement organizations, parent-community groups, and corporations. Richin has presented this model at numerous conferences conducted by such organizations as the American Association of School Administrators, Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, Children's Defense Fund, National Symposium on Child Victimization, School Administrator's Association of New York State, New York State Education Department Conference on Inclusive Schools and Communities, the Nassau-Suffolk Bar Association, the Center for Prejudice Reduction and the Parent-Teacher Association. Since 1975, Richin has published journal articles and curricula, and has contributed to books focusing on the education and well-being of children and families. Ms. Richin continues to dedicate the majority of her time to providing school-based support for instruction by collaborating with students, teachers, administrators, and parents at the classroom, building, district, community, and university levels. She and her colleagues can be reached at Inductionhelp@aol.com.

Banyon, Francine E.: -

Francine Banyon has thirty-five years of experience as an educator in New York City schools, the Huntington school district, and the Smithtown Central school district on Long Island. With Richin, Banyon, and Stein, Ms. Banyon is co-founder if the Connecting Character to Conduct(c) consulting team and co-author of the book of the same title. She has been the team leader in a New York State model dropout prevention program, a dean, a building administrator, and mentor to numerous present administrators working in Long Island school districts. Banyon has created student internship programs, Renaissance student success programs, conflict resolution-mediation programs, as well as school-to-business partnerships that have continued to grow long after she has left the schools where she was a part of the team that developed these programs. As an educational consultant, Ms. Banyon has presented at numerous workshops throughout the United States and has conducted extensive job-embedded professional development for instructional, administrative, and support staff in public and private schools.

Banyon: -

Richard Banyon is presently consulting in the Carle Place, New York school district as assistant superintendent for curriculum, instruction and personnel. His educational career spans over thirty-five years as a classroom teacher, guidance counselor, dean, building administrator, and central office administrator in New York City and Long Island. He most recently was assistant superintendent for personnel, curriculum, and instruction for the Deer Park school district, where he piloted a fully integrated model of induction specifically focused on recruiting and retaining teachers and administrators. He has facilitated national and regional workshops, and conducted job-embedded professional development on such issues as supervision, observation, evaluation, and preparing new teachers for the classroom. With Banyon, Stein, and Richin, he is co-founder of the Connecting Character to Conduct(c) consulting team and co-author of the book of the same title. Banyon enjoys the lights of Broadway in his spare time and bring his love of music and the theatre into any and all aspects of his professional career.

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