Friends Forward

Since 2020, MFS’s three-day summer orientation for all new faculty and staff and our year-long induction program for classroom teachers have been led by peer teachers rather than administrators. In addition, the yearlong induction program only includes typical meetings and presentations for the first half of the year and then becomes a Professional Learning Community following the Critical Friends Group model. Participants in this session will be introduced to the structure of and rationale for these programs. They will then participate in a modified CFG discussion protocol in which they are asked to probe one or more dilemmas that the program leaders experience.  Both the form and the content of these discussions, therefore, will immerse participants in learning about the session’s topics.