You will get:
✅ Ask the Right Questions
New Teacher Know-It-All Guide
Start your teaching journey off on the right foot! The 50 questions you need to ask your school mentor or administrator to start your new job with confidence.
✅ Get Ahead from Day One
New Teacher Checklist
Prepare for your first day (and beyond)! Your comprehensive guide to help you prepare before your first day and navigate your first day, week, and month in your new role.
✅ Create Your Perfect Syllabus
New Teacher Syllabus Template
New to syllabus writing? No sweat! This template helps you outline key topics, grading, and class policies—with an example to customize for your needs.
✅ Make a Great First Impression
New Teacher Back-to-School Presentation Template
Rock your first day (and Back-to-School Night)! This ready-to-use template with included example helps you introduce yourself, set expectations, and share key class information with students and parents with ease.
✅ Plan Lessons with Ease
New Teacher Lesson Plan Template
Simplify your lesson planning! Gone are the days of those 10-page college lesson plans. This lesson plan template provides a clear framework plus an example to guide you. Perfect for planning your observations!
✅ Own Your Day
New Teacher Notion Template
Stay organized from day one! This Notion template organizes daily tasks, lesson planning, and weekly materials to print —all in one organized space.
✅ Shop Smart
New Teacher Back-to-School List
Your must-haves to start the new year off on the right foot! A carefully curated list of 100+ essentials for staying organized, efficient, and making learning fun.
✅ Nail Your Observation
New Teacher Observation Guide
Earn a “Highly Effective” rating every time! Follow these 20 essential steps to prepare, perform, and secure a “Highly Effective” rating on your formal and informal observations.
✅ Manage Your Money
New Teacher Financial Guide
Take control of your finances! Learn how to manage your paycheck, salary schedule, budget, investments, and tax deductions with this guide and included budget template.
✅ Better Together
New Teacher Co-Teaching Guide
Build a successful co-teaching partnership! Explore six co-teaching models, compare their pros and cons, and choose the best fit for your classroom. Use key discussion questions to strengthen communication and collaborate with confidence.
✅ Navigate Conferences Like a Pro
New Teacher Parent-Teacher Conferences Guide
Make conferences smooth and stress-free! A roadmap covering everything from preparation to follow-ups, ensuring productive and stress-free conferences.
✅ Find the Perfect Fit
New Teacher Seating Chart Templates
Shape your space for success! This resource includes five ready-to-use templates, complete with pros and cons, to help you choose the best classroom setup and easily customize it with student names.
✅ Communicate with Confidence
New Teacher Email Templates
Say it right every time! Communicate professionally and keep parents and administrators informed and involved in and up-to-date using these four essential email templates.
✅ Don’t Forget!
New Teacher Daily Announcements Template
Never miss an important update! This template helps track important updates like upcoming assessments, makeup exams, and extra help sessions, ensuring you don’t forget to share these reminders in class.
✅ Get to Know Your Students
New Teacher Student Survey
Build connections from day one! This survey is a great first-week activity to learn about your students’ interests, preferences, and expectations, helping you tailor your teaching and build positive relationships.
✅ Partner with Parents
New Teacher Parent Survey
Parents know their kids best! This survey is a great tool for gathering insights into students’ interests and strengths, helping you tailor your teaching and build strong parent-teacher relationships from the start.
✅ Get the Honest Truth
New Teacher Mid- and End-of-Year Evaluations
Why wait until the end? Gather student insights with a mid-year evaluation and use this feedback to refine your teaching. Use the end-of-year evaluation to reflect on your progress and plan for the future.
✅ Look Back, Move Forward
New Teacher End-of-Year Reflection
Reflect on your teaching journey! Celebrate wins, acknowledge challenges, and set goals for growth in classroom management, instruction, engagement, work-life balance, and professional development. Write a letter to your future self and set SMART goals to guide your next steps!
Hello, I’m Nicole and this is my story.
After five years of teaching in public, private, and charter schools, I learned the ins and outs of organization, classroom management, lesson planning and building relationships with students and parents.
Then it hit me: what if I could take everything I’d learned and put it all together to help other new teachers?
Enter: New Teacher Academy! 🎉
New Teacher Academy is the brainchild of everything I’ve learned—designed specifically for teachers starting out in the profession.
It’s everything I wish I’d had when I first began, a toolkit of lessons, strategies, and systems to help new educators feel prepared, organized, and confident in the classroom.
I’m so excited to share these resources with you and to support you on your own teaching journey!