博客來Part of
The Educator Retention & Wellbeing Series
A Systems Intelligence Approach to K-12 Education
Mentorship is one of the most powerful tools schools have to retain teachers.
Yet year after year, well intentioned mentorship systems quietly fail the very educators they are meant to support.
Mentorship That Misses examines why.
Part of The Educator Retention & Wellbeing Series, this book explores how unintentional bias, cultural mismatch, power imbalance, and poorly designed induction systems turn mentorship into a source of confusion, surveillance, and early burnout.
Through realistic scenarios drawn from K-12 environments, the book reveals a core paradox of modern education systems: mentorship often exists administratively, but not functionally. Meetings are scheduled. Mentors are assigned. Yet psychological safety, belonging, and clarity remain absent.
This is not a book that blames mentors or portrays new teachers as deficient. Instead, it shows how systems that rely on goodwill instead of structure consistently fail under pressure.
Designed for school leaders, mentors, induction coordinators, HR teams, and DEI professionals, Mentorship That Misses reframes mentorship as infrastructure rather than personality. It offers a systems intelligence lens for redesigning induction so mentorship becomes a stabilizing force, not a survival test.
If your school struggles with early career attrition, international teacher retention, or silent disengagement, this book provides the missing framework to understand why good intentions are not enough, and what effective mentorship actually requires.
