Lever 2

Strategic Staffing

Campus leadership retains effective, well-supported teachers by strategically recruiting, selecting, assigning and inducting teachers so that all students have access to high-quality educators.

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District Commitments:

District commitments describe what local education agencies do to ensure that schools are set up for success.

  • The district provides the campus with sufficient control over teacher hiring and placement.
  • The district provides incentives for the strongest teachers to work in the lowest-performing schools.
  • The district effectively recruits adequate numbers of qualified candidates.
  • The district has timely, efficient, and responsive hiring processes.
  • The district makes it possible for high-needs schools to be fully staffed by July 1st.
  • The district provides an evaluation system that identifies low and high performers and allows for opportunities to remove low performing staff.
  • District policies and practices ensure that campuses have effective, well-supported teachers.

Essential Actions

Essential Actions describe what the most effective schools do to support powerful teaching and learning. The first essential action listed under the priority is foundational — schools should address first in continuous improvement efforts, as they provide the foundation upon which the other essential actions develop.

2.1

FOUNDATIONAL ESSENTIAL ACTION

Recruit, select, assign, induct, and retain a full staff of highly qualified educators

  • The campus implements ongoing and proactive recruitment strategies that include many sources for high-quality candidates.
  • Clear selection criteria, protocols, hiring and induction processes are in place and align with the school’s vision, mission, values, and goals.
  • Campus leaders implement targeted and personalized strategies to support and retain staff, particularly high-performing staff.
  • Teacher placements are strategic based on student need and teacher strengths.
  • Grade-level and content-area teams have strong, supported teacher leaders trained in adult learning facilitation and team dynamics.
  • Preferred substitutes are recruited and retained.
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