Employ practices that recruit and hire high quality professional staff and retain staff by supporting their professional growth through a cohesive teacher mentorship program.
Action Statement
Strategies
Recruit and maintain high quality professional staff.
● Offer competitive salary and benefits. ● Partner with local colleges and universities such as New River Community College, Radford University, and Virginia Tech to connect with preservice teachers and provide opportunities for professional development for current staff. ● Attend job fairs. ● Provide support for internal staff looking to obtain teacher licensure or additional licensure. ● Create a strong feedback loop for school staff to share input on job satisfaction and ideas for improvement. ● Model PCPS standards for high expectations of communicating with families, staff, and students. ● Update the New Teacher Mentor Handbook each school year with clear expectations and information about the program. ● Division staff will receive input from participants in the program and evaluate ways the program can be the most effective to support professional growth. ● Survey new teachers to determine areas in need of growth. ● Provide professional development opportunities, based on survey information, to assist new teachers with growth in areas of need. ● Create processes and procedures to support new teachers with curriculum and instruction support. ● Create and implement a companion teacher induction for special education teachers. ● Regularly review and update instructional expectations based on needs identified by evaluating student achievement data, including monitoring special populations to seek opportunities for improvement. ● Clearly communicate instructional expectations to all instructional staff and create consistent goals. ● Maintain an open feedback loop to support professional growth and high quality instructional practices. ● Perform periodic audits to ensure compliance with all state and federal law, guidelines, and guidance documents. ● Learn strengths and weaknesses of our employment practices in order to strengthen our processes and procedures for hiring, retaining, and growing professional staff.
Support teachers with a strong mentorship program, which includes an induction program for new teachers.
Ensure alignment of performance evaluations with instructional expectations and student achievement outcomes.
Conduct exit interviews.
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