Strategies
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Highly Qualified Staff Strategies       Printable Version

Goal:
Recruit, attract, develop, and retain highly qualified staff to carry out the district’s mission, goals, and objectives.

Strategies – Competitive Compensation

Champion

Persons Responsible

Start Date

Completion Date

Funding Source

Monitoring Plan

Develop salary ranges for all positions with competitive rates.

Assistant Superintendent for Human Resources

Assistant Superintendent for Human Resources

March 2010

June 2011

District Operating Budget

Salary Ranges for all positions will be created and maintained with appropriate increases according to budget approved.

Re-evaluate district stipends to accurately reflect duties and provide competitive compensation.

Principals

Stipend committee

Director of Classified Personnel

Ongoing

Ongoing

District Operating Budget

ECA Committee Minutes/ Finance Committee Minutes and creation of new stipend schedule.

Establish and/or maintain relationships with Missouri colleges and other designated programs to increase the pool of highly qualified applicants.

Assistant Superintendent for Human Resources

Ongoing

Ongoing

District Operating Budget

Plan of contact/visits with college classes campuses, number of CPS employees as college instructors/ guest speakers/ Create annual report of new hires by college attended

Re-evaluate the current salary schedules to make adjustments for them to be competitive in our industry.

Assistant Superintendent for Human Resources

July 2010

June 2013

 

District Operating Budget

New Salary Schedules

Re-evaluate the job description and expectations of the teacher role for updates to the PBTE and alignment with a supplemental pay plan.

Professional Development Committee

Principals

August 2010

June 2014

District Operating Budget

New PBTE descriptors and expectations with supplemental pay plan

Re-evaluate the job description and expectations of the administrative role for updates to the PBAE and alignment with a supplemental pay plan.

Asst. Supts. For Elementary and Secondary Education

Principals

August 2010

June 2014

District Operating Budget

New PBAE descriptors and expectations with supplemental pay plan

 

Strategies – Supplemental Compensation

Champion

Persons Responsible

Start Date

Completion Date

Funding Source

Monitoring Plan

Support the development of the district’s own version of a career ladder plan for teachers in which supplemental pay is aligned to school improvement plans.  Investigate alignment of supplemental pay to  student performance gains, market conditions, challenge of job assignment, commitment to school, etc. as possible factors.

Assistant Superintendent for Secondary Schools

Assistant Superintendent for Secondary Schools

Principals

PDC
Teacher leadership of CMNEA and CMSTA

August 2010

June 2015

District Operating Budget

Copy of new Career Ladder Plan

Form a committee of teachers and administrators to develop sample list of Career Ladder activities that support student achievement and intervention.

Assistant Superintendent for Secondary Schools

Assistant Superintendent for Secondary Schools

PDC
Teacher leadership of CMNEA and CMSTA

Principals

August 2010

June 2015

District Operating Budget

List of CL activities

Support the development of the district’s own supplemental pay plan for administrators in which pay is aligned to school improvement plans.  Investigate alignment of supplemental pay to  student performance gains, market conditions, challenge of job assignment, commitment to school, etc. as possible factors.

Assistant Superintendent for Human Resources

Asst. Supts. For Elementary and Secondary Schools

Principals

 

 

August 2010

June 2015

District Operating Budget

Copy of Supplemental pay options for Administrators

Support the development of the district’s own supplemental pay plan for district support staff.

Director of Classified and Substitute Personnel

Director of Classified and Substitute Personnel with Representatives of Employee Support Staff

August 2011

 June 2015

 District Budgets

Copy of Supplemental pay options for Support Staff

 

Strategies – Professional Development

Champion

Persons Responsible

Start Date

Completion Date

Funding Source

Monitoring Plan

Develop and implement professional development for all teachers based upon needs assessment including student achievement growth measures.

Professional Development Strategy (Student Performance)

Assistant Superintendent for Human Resources

Chief Academic Officer

PDC Committee

Director of School Improvement

Principals

July 2010 Ongoing

District Operating Budget

Title IIA

PD plan and Annual Building Audit to ensure access and delivery of PD at all sites

Develop and implement professional development for district and building leaders based upon needs assessment including student achievement growth measures.

Assistant Superintendent for Human Resources

Chief Academic Officer

Director of School Improvement

Asst. Supts. for Elementary and Secondary Education

Principals

Coordinators

July 2010 Ongoing

District Operating Budget

Title IIA

PD Plan
Develop and implement professional development for building services staff based upon needs assessment.

Assistant Superintendent for Human Resources

Deputy Superintendent

Director of Building Services August 2010 Ongoing District Operating Budget PD Plan

Develop and implement professional development for support staff.

  • Basic technology competencies for support staff.
  • Review and redefine support staff job descriptions to include technology competence of each position.
  • Re-evaluate use of Technology Skills Assessment.
  • Incorporate Technology Skills Assessment into appropriate evaluation tools.
Assistant Superintendent for Human Resources Director of Classified Personnel

Supervisors
August 2010 Ongoing District Operating Budget PD Plan
Develop a procedure to assess professional development and academic coursework’s correlation to job assignment and student achievement.

Assistant Superintendent for Human Resources

Chief Academic Officer

Director of School Improvement

Director of RAA

Principals

August 2010 June 2012 District Operating Budget Process to evaluate PD/ courses
Develop and implement a multi-year culturally proficient new teacher induction for those entering the teaching profession and for experienced teachers new to the district.

Assistant Superintendent for Human Resources

Chief Academic Officer

Director of School Improvement April 2010 May 2012

District Operating Budget

Title IIA

Program Curriculum
Develop and implement a high quality mentoring program to assist and retain our new teachers which includes selection criteria, mandatory training and compensation.

Assistant Superintendent for Human Resources

Chief Academic Officer

Director of School Improvement June 2010 May 2012 District Operating Budget

Title IIA
Procedures and Program Curriculum
 

Strategies – Diversified Workforce

Champion

Persons Responsible

Start Date

Completion Date

Funding Source

Monitoring Plan

Develop a recruitment team to identify and implement human resources strategies such as earlier candidate recruitment and contract offers and connections to attract highly qualified applicants. Assistant Superintendent for Human Resources

Assistant Superintendent for Human Resources

Principals and Hiring Managers
April 2010 June 2011 District Operating Budget

List of Team member names and recruitment plan

Annual report of recruitment and retention statistics including under represented groups
Survey current underrepresented groups in our workforce to develop recruitment ideas and connections. Assistant Superintendent for Human Resources Assistant Superintendent for Human Resources

Principals and Hiring Managers
August 2010 June 2011 District Operating Budget List of Recruitment Ideas
Develop a program with local colleges/universities to mirror the fellowship program to increase entry for underrepresented potential applicants. Assistant Superintendent for Human Resources Assistant Superintendent for Human Resources August 2011 June 2012

District Operating Budget

Title IIA

Program design outline

Annual report of numbers of students in program