I graduated from UNF and started my career here, Superintendent Diana Greene said during the webinar. As a first-year teacher, I felt so alone and didn t understand the intricacies of teaching.
Greene said it took leaving Duval County and starting at a new school district that had an established teacher mentorship program to make things click for her. It taught me that we have to understand what teachers are coming into when they first join a district, she said.
Duval teachers experience below Florida average
In an analysis of three years of data from the school district, Jacksonville Public Education Fund revealed that Duval County s teacher retention rate is about 84 percent year-to-year across the entire district and about 75 percent year-to-year in the average school. The district said these numbers are on pace with national statistics.