The Mentor Advocacy Partnership (MAP) is a coalition of Oregon educational organizations supporting the use of mentors as part of a teacher induction program.

MAP believes that mentoring is an essential component for assisting early career teachers to become competent and confident professional educators who make a positive impact on student learning. MAP will compile and utilize research relating to best practices to identify effective models, develop a clearinghouse for this information and establish a strategic plan for systematic change that would support mentoring programs in schools throughout Oregon.

The agencies that support MAP are:

• Confederation of Oregon School Administrators

• Northwest Christian College

• Northwest Regional Education Laboratory

• Oregon Business Council

• Oregon Department of Education

• Oregon Education Association

• Oregon School Boards Association

• Oregon School Personnel Association

• Pacific University

• Portland State University

• Teachers Standards and Practices Commission

• Western Oregon University

For more information about the Mentor Advocacy Partnership contact Ron Wilson , OSBA’s Associate Executive Director.