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Fast Company December 2008 Kate Rockwood	The Academy for Urban School Leadership: A Teacher-Training Residency If you applied the medical-residency model to urban schools, you'd have the AUSL's teacher-training program: mentoring, grad school, 49 weeks shadowing a veteran teacher, and four years teaching in Chicago's neediest classrooms.
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ifeminists December 17, 2002 Glenn Sacks	Why Teachers Leave An effective school or school district leadership does one thing above all: It keeps good teachers in the classroom. Our schools are like an army whose best soldiers, year after year, are deserting. I have three solutions.