Attract Qualified Candidates

Market Your District

Expand Outreach to Reach Potential Candidates

Enlist Community Help in Your Recruitment Efforts

Define Your
Ideal Candidate

Craft a Recruitment Message

Strengthen Relationships with Institutions of Higher Education

"Grow Your Own"

Non-Traditional Candidates

Offer Incentives to Attract & Retain Educators

Enlist Community Help in Your Recruitment Efforts

What We Know From the Research:

Teachers are “home-grown.” Six out of 10 (60%) of public school teachers in 2005 got their undergraduate college education within 150 miles of where they were born. Four out of 10 (41%) individuals entering teaching through alternate routes completed their undergraduate college education within 150 miles of where they were born. Two out of three (66%) of public school teachers in 2005 are teaching within 150 miles of the place where they received their undergraduate degree. (National Center for Education Information, 2005)

Efforts to enlist help from your local community can be effective at reaching potential candidates who are close to home.

Promising strategies for enlisting community help in your recruitment efforts:

• Include community stakeholders on your recruitment team;
  
  
• Make sure faculty and staff know about open positions and recruitment needs and encourage them to refer potential applicants;
  
  
• Let parents, PTA's, PTO's, service clubs know about job openings;
  
  
• Ask the Chamber of Commerce, Welcome Wagon, and realtors to disseminate your recruitment materials;
  
  
• Ask your local media to cover stories about your recruitment efforts or your recruitment needs.

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