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The number of new teacher candidates enrolling in preparation programs was decreasing prior to the pandemic. The pandemic has increased the rate of teachers leaving the profession. It has been a rough two years even though the current school year was supposed to be a return to ‘normal.’ Yet after the Omicron wave, everything got more challenging making the return to full-time, in-person learning after a year and a half even harder than expected. Staff shortages and students’ social emotional welfare made readjustment challenging. Substitute teachers were hard to find. There simply were not enough adults in many schools this year. The New Hampshire Union Leader published the story, T eachers retiring, but not as many as feared ,” on June 27.  “By the middle of the year, teachers said they were feeling burned out. A national survey of teachers published in late January, commissioned by the National Education Association, one of the two national teachers’ unions, reported that more th...

  Tom Schram, TRRE Faculty in Residence with TRRE Graduates UNH Teacher Residency for Rural Education (TRRE) has been an incredible journey! As Tom Schram so poignantly described in his closing at the TRRE Advisory Board meeting in June, it is the journey, not the statistics, charts or maps that truly represent the TRRE impact, it is the people in school partner districts supporting the program and the TRRE graduates making a difference each day in education.  TRRE Graduates from three out of the four cohorts gathered on June 18 at the Common Man Inn in Plymouth NH. TRREople (TRRE-people) shared lessons learned as first year teachers, celebrated TRRE graduates’ impact in rural partner schools, recognized the value of the professional TRRE network and explored future induction support opportunities for summer and beyond grant funding which ends in September 2022.   TRRE Graduates shared their experiences as first year teachers. Whether a 2019 or 2021 TRRE graduate, common ...