Provide quality mentoring and induction programs to support the new teachers so they will stay in education. Improve classroom and building working conditions. The time spent by teachers on non-teaching duties, like playground and cafeteria supervision, could be used for more training and development and for planning time. Salaries and working conditions that are among the best in the nation will be crucial to recruiting the most highly qualified teachers. Adequate funding and support will be critical in retaining the most highly qualified teachers.
Maine has a first class public education system.
Keeping this standard of excellence before us, we must work to fill our classrooms with fully certified, high quality teachers. We have the potential to lead the nation in every aspect of educational excellence, and we owe it to our profession and to our students to achieve that potential.