Scaffolded Solutions
Effective mentoring programs provide crucial guidance and support to help all teachers succeed. Scaffolded Solutions is a comprehensive support system for mentors and their supported teachers as they navigate teaching today. Whether providing remote, in-person, or blended instruction, teachers face unprecedented working conditions and unique challenges and need customized support to help ensure student success.
Scaffolded Solutions draws on over 20 years of experience developing, implementing, and evaluating beginning teacher induction programs.
Supporting educators from the ground up.
Professional Learning
Professional learning that builds the knowledge base for mentors, mentor program coordinators, principals, and new teachers:
Research-based training for mentor teachers that focuses on the critical three-year period when beginning teachers often leave
Guidance for mentor program coordinators and principals that helps schools and districts build systemic induction programs
Professional development that helps beginning teachers master the competencies required for student success
Online Platform
An Online Platform provides tools that facilitate quality interactions between beginning teachers and their mentors and principals and that help districts manage sound induction programs:
Learning-focused conversations that provide structured learning opportunities between mentors and beginning teachers
Progress evaluation and reporting tools that help illuminate areas for individual and program growth based on self-assessments, shared-observation feedback, and site usage
Program Implementation
Program development and implementation that customizes induction programs to meet specific district and beginning teacher needs. Since 2010, Scaffolded Solutions has supported beginning teachers in 66 districts:
2,183 beginning teachers
1,629 mentors
254 principals
93 district coordinators
Online platform features
Engage with mentoring tools: self-assessments, focused conversations, activity log.
“I feel that Scaffolded Solutions has been of tremendous help
and a great tool in the guidance in our role as mentors.”
Whether you are a teacher, mentor, or school or district administrator, we want to hear about your needs for teacher support.
Email us at info@scaffoldedsolutions.net or call 512-327-8576.