The Blue Valley mentoring program, at one year old, is probably the oldest program in the state. Carter is the district coordinating teacher for staff development. The experience KNEA provided through the Ganser workshop affirmed basic principals of what Blue Valley put together. Blue Valley is moving to the second generation program. They are heading into something Ganser calls a mentoring mosaic where a new teacher has co-mentors.
Teams work with one person and, if the chemistry is right, two mentors can do a better job than one.
We discovered that in our first year. The mentor may be a facilitator and mentoring becomes a team activity.