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Mentoring in Action: Guiding, Sharing, and Reflecting With Novice Teachers: A Month-by-Month Curriculum for Teacher Effectiveness
The support you need for mindful mentoring and sustainable teacher success!
Novice teachers bring vitality and optimism to schools. Our role as mentors is to empower novice teachers to grow in their practice and emerge as the leaders of the future. Newly revised and updated, the 2nd edition of Mentoring in Action emphasizes a unique mindful mentoring that aligns your conversations to teaching standards to prepare novice teachers for their teacher evaluation.
In this book you’ll learn the importance of teacher leadership and how mentoring can influence teacher effectiveness. This flexible twelve-month curriculum helps
Plan mentoring conversations and observations Differentiate support to meet the varied needs of novice teachers Set goals to prevent teacher burnout by sharing social and emotional learning skills Gather regular student feedback from student work samples and surveys Integrate the updated INTASC Standards into mentoring conversations This updated edition includes QR codes and a robust companion website featuring videos, downloadable forms, and a Mentor Planning Guide and Journal for reflection. Transform your mentoring experience by confidently mentoring your novice teachers with this comprehensive guide!
"Filled with decades of her own teaching, research, and mentoring wisdom, Radford offers a guide to building the mentoring relationship, examples of mentoring in action, and instructions and modeling of purposeful mentoring conversations."
Dr. Kirsten Olsen, Author of Wounded By School and The Mindful School Leader
"The best mentorship programs include support for the mentors, not just for new teachers. This book provides a roadmap for individual teacher-mentors or those in charge of mentoring programs. Everyone in a position of leadership should read and use this book."
Barbara Levin, Professor and Author of Every Teacher a Leader
University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Novice teachers bring vitality and optimism to schools. Our role as mentors is to empower novice teachers to grow in their practice and emerge as the leaders of the future. Newly revised and updated, the 2nd edition of Mentoring in Action emphasizes a unique mindful mentoring that aligns your conversations to teaching standards to prepare novice teachers for their teacher evaluation.
In this book you’ll learn the importance of teacher leadership and how mentoring can influence teacher effectiveness. This flexible twelve-month curriculum helps
Plan mentoring conversations and observations Differentiate support to meet the varied needs of novice teachers Set goals to prevent teacher burnout by sharing social and emotional learning skills Gather regular student feedback from student work samples and surveys Integrate the updated INTASC Standards into mentoring conversations This updated edition includes QR codes and a robust companion website featuring videos, downloadable forms, and a Mentor Planning Guide and Journal for reflection. Transform your mentoring experience by confidently mentoring your novice teachers with this comprehensive guide!
"Filled with decades of her own teaching, research, and mentoring wisdom, Radford offers a guide to building the mentoring relationship, examples of mentoring in action, and instructions and modeling of purposeful mentoring conversations."
Dr. Kirsten Olsen, Author of Wounded By School and The Mindful School Leader
"The best mentorship programs include support for the mentors, not just for new teachers. This book provides a roadmap for individual teacher-mentors or those in charge of mentoring programs. Everyone in a position of leadership should read and use this book."
Barbara Levin, Professor and Author of Every Teacher a Leader
University of North Carolina at Greensboro
311 pages, Kindle Edition
Published June 24, 2016
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August 22, 2026
I didn’t go into this book thinking that it was going to be a fun read. I’m so sad that I was correct.
While I’m sure Radford is an effective teacher her writing skill is repetitive. If you read one chapter you’ve basically read them all. It made for an arduous and monotonous task to finish this book. There were a few decent ideas in the chapters but they were few and far between.
Also, the change of pronouns in some cases every other sentence was jarring. I often couldn’t tell who was the mentee anymore because Radford would consistently change the gender. While not the biggest problem in this book a blanket “they” would have been more effective during her writing.
I understand that this book has an online companion to it but the frequent references and prompts to “check out the video on this page” were distracting at best and annoying at worst.
However, in my opinion, the biggest flaw in this book was how unrealistic the suggestions were. Mentors don’t have time to constantly meet with their mentees. In a perfect world we would have time to do anything Radford suggests but nothing is perfect and dumping more work on an already overwhelmed mentee has no benefit to them or their students. Even as a mentor teacher we are still busy as well.
While I’m sure Radford is an effective teacher her writing skill is repetitive. If you read one chapter you’ve basically read them all. It made for an arduous and monotonous task to finish this book. There were a few decent ideas in the chapters but they were few and far between.
Also, the change of pronouns in some cases every other sentence was jarring. I often couldn’t tell who was the mentee anymore because Radford would consistently change the gender. While not the biggest problem in this book a blanket “they” would have been more effective during her writing.
I understand that this book has an online companion to it but the frequent references and prompts to “check out the video on this page” were distracting at best and annoying at worst.
However, in my opinion, the biggest flaw in this book was how unrealistic the suggestions were. Mentors don’t have time to constantly meet with their mentees. In a perfect world we would have time to do anything Radford suggests but nothing is perfect and dumping more work on an already overwhelmed mentee has no benefit to them or their students. Even as a mentor teacher we are still busy as well.
April 7, 2026
Good organization conveniently organized into monthly tasks. Very repetitive, and the tasks are not always logically timed on new teachers needs throughout the year. There is so much in this book! It was very overwhelming for brand new teachers, and included some outdated ideas that don’t align with best instructional practices that may lead new teachers into bad habits that are difficult to readdress later.
September 10, 2026
Provides a lot of helpful resources for teacher mentors. I really like the agendas for meetings of all different lengths, and the lists of things to prioritize each month of the school year.
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