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The multi-year grant Building Teacher Leadership Capacity to Support Beginning Teachers (BTLC) seeks to leverage the power of school district-university partnerships to improve support for beginning teachers in New Jersey.
 
Year Three of the BTLC grant maintains the focus on building a district's capacity to enhance beginning teachers' practice to improve student outcomes, in large part by using teacher leaders as thought partners, professional learning leaders, and support-providers. As explained in detail in the Notice of Grant Opportunity (NGO) for Year Two,  the rationale for this focus derives from the proven value of intentional, high quality beginning teacher support systems to jump-start effective instruction and enhance teachers' chances for long-term success, to improve teachers' job satisfaction, and to reduce teacher turnover. By building capacity for teacher leadership, school districts can nurture and support high performers while leveraging their talents to improve instruction and build a collaborative professional culture. 

In Year Three, the work of the school district-university partners will shift towards sustainability and outreach. The teacher leadership and beginning teacher support capacities created thus far will be leveraged to develop district-level and school level-embedded practices for ongoing impact in partner districts and more broadly as models to inform the improvement of beginning teacher support systems across the state.
 
Specifically, BTLC Year Three will provide the opportunity for institutions of higher education (IHE) grantees to continue to work with partner districts in implementing an effective system of induction and mentoring. In Year Three the partnerships will develop a portfolio of resources to organize a system of support, primarily for their pre-service and novice in-service teachers, but also for use with teachers at all experience levels who may need additional support. Teacher leaders will continue to play key roles in designing, planning, facilitating, implementing, and evaluating the elements of this system. BTLC Year Three will also prioritize opportunities for broader impacts by supporting the partnerships to organize and host regional symposia in order to disseminate the products of their work through this grant to other district- and university-based education professionals across the state.