Dr. Victoria Pettis
Summer Cohort 2006
EOCS 7450
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Standard II. A school administrator is an educational leader who promotes the success of all students by advocating, nurturing, and sustaining a school culture and instructional program conducive to student learning and staff professional growth |
Description of the Activity: Observe or carry out a staff development, curriculum development or instructional improvement effort in your school district.
Explanation of the Activity: On September 13, 2005, my principal sent my name – along with two others
– to the district office to serve on my school’s representative for the school
district’s continuous improvement plan committee. As a continuation of that
work, I volunteered this school year to work on Action Team 2, whose task was
to work on action steps for “Recruiting and Retaining Highly Effective Staff”.
We met three times (4:15-7:15) during the school year on Tuesdays.
After many hours of discussion, debate, and reflection, we came to consensus on the following eight (8) action steps:
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Action Steps
for Recruiting and Retaining Highly Effective Staff |
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1. Revise exiting process
to include completing an exit survey and utilize the results to address
attrition. |
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2. Convert all components
of the current application process to an electronic format. |
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3. Develop a human
resources helpdesk system as a clearinghouse for individual needs and
questions. |
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4. Increase salaries for
paraprofessionals. |
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5. Develop a plan to
increase the local supplement for all certified personnel to be competitive
with surrounding districts. |
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6. Provide training for
administrators focused on effective screening, interviewing, and hiring
techniques. |
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7. Revise the current
recruitment, orientation, and retention plan to address the following:
(mentoring for new employees and student teachers, interns, etc.; mechanisms
for both students and staff to enter and/or advance in educational career
paths, and advertising for recruitment). |
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