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Editor’s Note: Ellen Moir is New Teacher Center’s Founder and CEO When students across the country go back to school this year, many will get an inexperienced rookie teacher. The teaching workforce is “greening,” and the most common educator this year is a beginner in his or her first year of teaching. It’s startling but true. Despite Training, New Teachers Often Struggle What’s really startling, though, is that many of these bright and energetic beginning teachers will receive nothing more than a student roster and a classroom key. That’s right. Despite the current focus on making sure all educators are effective, we are not setting up new teachers to make a difference, and their students pay the price. New teachers struggle, too often in isolation, to be the kind of teacher their students so urgently need. Often without effective rules and procedures in place, they will waste valuable teaching time managing student behavior. They will work…