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Does Your Onboarding Say ‘We Got You’ or ‘Good Luck’?
Does Your Onboarding Say ‘We Got You’ or ‘Good Luck’? Why Your Orientation Plan Might Be the Silent Retention Killer “I didn’t get a welcome email. No schedule. No idea where my classroom was. I sat through PD meant for veterans and felt invisible.”— First-Year...
“You Say You Want to Keep Us—But Do You Even See Us?”
“You Say You Want to Keep Us—But Do You Even See Us?”From the Desk of a Millennial/Gen Z New Teacher to the Leadership That Keeps Wondering Why We Leave “I just wish my admin would check in on me and find out if I’m okay—not expect me to just know. Come through my...
Will It Take Robots Teaching Our Kids for Us to Realize We’re Losing Real Teachers?
By Kofi Kinney, M.Ed.Founder, New Teachers on the Block (NTOB) As we celebrate Juneteenth—a day that marks the delayed freedom of enslaved Black Americans—we must also confront another delay. A delay that may not be captured in textbooks, but one that plays out in...
The Truth About Retention: It Doesn’t Start in August
Let’s face it: school leaders are exhausted. It’s June. You just wrapped a high-stakes school year, sat through endless end-of-year evaluations, managed vacancies, and pushed through your last district meeting on fumes. The beach is calling, your inbox is overflowing,...
When Nostalgia Meets New Beginnings—How One School Inspired a Movement for New Teachers
There’s a unique kind of reflection that comes when your child walks across the graduation stage—not just as a parent, but as an educator. Recently, I watched my youngest child graduate from a school that didn’t just shape him—it helped shape me. And not just as a...
“You Hired Them… But Will They Show Up?”
The First Time I Almost Didn’t Show Up In the spring of 2001, I sat in a campus interview room at Howard University, excited about an offer I’d just accepted to teach at a school in Atlanta. I had the degree, the passion, and a deep sense...
Welcome or Warning?: Why Your Onboarding Might Be Driving Teachers Away
What if I told you that the most critical decision a new teacher makes isn’t whether they stay in the profession—but whether they feel seen, valued, and equipped from day one?