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Category Archives: Hiring
It appears that we are in a national tight spot when it comes to teacher evaluation. Tennessee, the early leader in teacher evaluation systems, has really garnered a lot of negative attention in recent days. While some of the backlash … Continue reading
While most of the calendar for most administrative hires is almost over, our profession is moving into the time in which teachers are hired. To help you through this process we’ve put together a pretty comprehensive set of resources for … Continue reading
Posted in Helpful Resources, Hiring
Tagged career planning, interviewing, job seeking
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As the “Interviewing Season” beings for schools and school districts, we thought that it might make sense for us to share some of our favorite interview resources. As a group, we’ve worked with a fair number of prospective school leaders … Continue reading
One of our side projects is helping districts with their hiring and onboarding projects. Today, I came across a great post from www.ere.net on the 10 Dumbest Things Recruiters Do. While this is a little tongue in cheek, we have … Continue reading
New Schools has put forward some interesting thinking on changing how new teachers enter the field. The comparison to law is pretty interesting. Joel Klein had another version that was also compelling and had multiple layers of teacher leadership built … Continue reading
We’ll probably have a year of these kinds of discoveries. The speed at which decisions were made in order to move fast in order to get Race to the Top (RTTT) funds is starting to catch up to states and … Continue reading
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Joe and I are in the midst of working on a series discussing a number of approaches to the hiring process. In every approach there is the first step which is figuring out the needs of a particular position. Ultimately, … Continue reading
Posted in Continuous Quality Improvement, Helpful Resources, Hiring, Leadership
Tagged collaborative teams, hiring, PLC, PLT, teacher teams
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