Leading Good Schools to Greatness by Gray Susan P.;Streshly William A.; & Wllllam A. Streshly

Author:Gray, Susan P.;Streshly, William A.; & Wllllam A. Streshly
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Corwin Press
Published: 2011-11-05T00:00:00+00:00

Remember, the people you surround yourself with will most assuredly determine the success you will encounter.

Hire the Right People

Make sure you take your time during the hiring/recruiting process. If you invest your time, resources, and energy to get the right people, you’ll have less headaches, expenses, and flat tires later on.

The authority to hire and fire at your school site, either directly or through committee action, certainly gives you more control over the process of staffing your school with all the right people. In the case of five of our successful principals, hiring was a school site responsibility. One highly successful principal we studied opened a new school and hired all of his teachers. Two well-regarded principals we interviewed recently were charged with turning around poorly performing schools and in doing so were authorized to move a number of teachers out and hire new teachers to take their place. Two other star school leaders we had conversations with, one the director of the elementary charter school described in Chapter 6 and the other a director of a charter high school, had that authority due largely to the requirements of their schools’ charters. When asked if he had more authority to select staff, the high school director declared with conviction, “Absolutely!”

You can hire the right people, and we have a course of action for you as the school administrator to follow in doing that. We recommend this same course of action for site-level as well as district-level hiring teams. The next time you are faced with a teaching position to fill, proceed with the steps listed in Table 5.2 below.

Table 5.2 Steps to Follow in Hiring the Best Teachers

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