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Teacher Recruitment Toolkit
Many districts are concerned about teacher recruitment due to massive teacher shortages across the country. Discover a wide variety of ideas and accompanying tools to help districts inflect change at every stage of the teacher hiring process.
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Hiring Top Talent
Faculty are the heart and soul of any school. But ad hoc processes and limited proactive recruitment mean that schools are potentially missing out on great teachers. We've identified 14 practices, across four areas, to help schools attract and hire top talent.
Keeping Faculty on the Leading Edge
This resource center is designed to take the insights and best practices from our research on faculty professional development and translate them into actionable change on your campus.
Principal Hiring Playbook
This toolkit will help district hiring teams immediately improve principal interviews to more accurately evaluate strategic thinking and interpersonal skills.
Hosting Prospective Faculty Education and Recruitment Events
Through an educator open house or diversity hiring fair, you can reach candidates that match your current hiring priorities, with candidates who may have been previously overlooked.
Use your employment page to reach the candidates you really want
As you expand recruitment efforts, you should consider that for many candidates, your school’s employment page is their first interaction with the school. Discover how to ensure your employment page is informative and compelling for potential applicants.
The Head’s Transition Playbook
Independent schools experience head of school transitions more often than ever before, but most haven’t had the opportunity to perfect the transition process. With that in mind, we have gathered the advice and experience of 25 independent school leaders into a playbook designed to help guide you through this challenging process.
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Supporting the Mental Wellness of Teachers: A Discussion with the Founder and CEO of Happy Teacher Revolution
Even prior to the COVID crisis, teachers reported high levels of stress and burnout. Unfortunately, the pressures of the job lead many teachers to leave the profession altogether. Teachers have been asked to make an unprecedented shift to online and distance learning amidst a global health crisis that may be creating significant anxiety on top of job-related stress.
Hiring Top Talent Part 1: Laying the Foundation for Effective Hiring
Learn how to lay the foundation for effective hiring, including maximizing relevant technology and determining assessment criteria at the outset of the hiring process, in part one of this on-demand webinar series.
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