Section 1. Reimagining the Frame 1. The Challenges for Staying: What Makes Beginning Teachers Leave the Teaching Profession?2. A Voyage of Noticing the Context3. Finding the Golden Thread4. Identifying the Exits Section 2: The Value of Time 5. Leaders Connecting the Dots6. "Here I Am, Ready to Teach": Harnessing Preparedness7. Sharing the Load: Professional Interrelationships and the Community of Practice8. High-Risk Contexts9. Protect and Guard: A Balancing Act
Anna Elizabeth Du Plessis is an education specialist who has 26 years’ experience in teaching, including eight years in school leadership. Her various research projects have examined educational leadership, professional development for teachers and school leaders, preservice teachers’ professional experience, the beginning teacher workforce, and teachers’ lived experiences in relation to out-of-field teaching practices.