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Aug 30
2010
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Mentoring New TeachersPosted by North Bay Report in students , Sonoma County , policy , legislation , jobs , employment , education , children , California |
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For school teachers, as in many other professions, there’s no substitute for hands-on experience. But there are ways that experience can be shared, as new teachers in California are learning.
The North Coast Beginning Teacherprogram has been in place for seven years now, reports regional director Corrine Muelrath, and is now part of California’s teacher credentialing process.

There are 560 new teachers currently in the mentoring program, Muelrath adds, a higher-than-usual number that reflects some of the uncertainties that school districts face in preparing their budgets without a state budget in place.
The area served by the North Coast Beginning Teacher program are shown in color on this map.




Even these new rules will only restrict about 4/5ths of the sewage discharges into the state’s bays and other coastal waters; most of the remaining 20% comes from smaller vessels not governed by the new rules. Blumenfeld would like to see an eventual system of controlled dockside flushes into regional treatment facilities, but acknowledges that’s little more than a vision right now.
Mary Szecsey, Executive Director of the five West County Health Centers, explains that the local clinics, and many of their counterparts across the county, have helped pioneer and refine the concept known as a “medical home” for patients.



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