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What do a computer programmer, CityYear Manchester volunteer, a former banker, a literacy tutor, and a special education paraprofessional all have in common? They are all members of the newest and largest TRRE cohort. In May, we welcomed 15 future educators to our program. Please join us in congratulating and welcoming Cohort 4 (2020 - 2021) to the TRRE program!   Cohort 4 is unique not only in its size, but also in the circumstances under which the program has been operating. With social distancing the norm, the TRRE program adapted coursework and orientations to virtual formats. These measures have been extended through the summer and have led to a different entrance to graduate school for our new residents compared to past cohorts. This means that the residents, while having met many times over Zoom, have yet to meet each other, or other members of the TRRE program in person. This includes their teaching mentors, who they have met virtually.  Although operating wi...

TRRE is in the fourth year of a five-year US Department of Education grant. Goals of the TRRE program are to recruit, prepare and retain highly qualified teachers for rural high need schools in NH. Retention of these new teaching in TRRE partner schools supported by two years of induction, i.e. professional development and mentoring. In the process, TRRE has developed valuable university-school-community partnerships to engage with the shared goal of enhanced teacher preparation. While we celebrate our success and growth to date, we simultaneously begin to examine the components of the TRRE program we hope to sustain into the future. Currently we are working with four resident cohorts in varying stages of the program. Hiring and Retention Cohort 1 graduates (2017-2018) will enter their third year of teaching in school districts north of the White Mountains in Fall 2020. Cohort 2 (2018-2019) graduates will begin their second year of teaching, also in rural partner school dis...