Rio Linda Dist. Recruiting & Term Paper

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A principal, for instance, will advertise on Ed Join for, say, a third grade, second grade or whatever opening he or she has, screen and hire the candidates, and then notify Personnel.

At the Rio Linda Union School District, job candidates still bring in their applications in person. They bring portfolios to interviews. Not nearly as much is done online, in the screening and hiring processes, as it is at within other districts nowadays. The Rio Linda Union School District's still-centralized hiring, according to Barker, allows for greater consistency in hiring. Barker also added, however, that unlike in the past, she now considers it best for principals to select their own new hires from a pool of recently hired candidates, in order to best meet the needs of, and have the best fit with, that principal's own school. This, Barker said, is because unlike in the past, schools today must rely so much on collaboration and teamwork within each school, so a new hire's being the best fit for that school is more important than ever.

Barker said she also frequently attends job fairs as part of the district's ongoing recruiting efforts, and takes principals with her to these job fairs.


Recommendations for Improvement of Practice

Measures that the author of this study believes might improve recruitment and hiring practices now used within the Rio Linda Union School District, several of which were also identified by Barker (October 17, 2005) would be to begin using technology more frequently, and with more versatility, in candidate interviews. Instead of teacher candidates' bringing in portfolios, for example, they might give PowerPoint presentations on their attitudes about and practices in teaching. It would be helpful also, to be able to see videos of their teaching.

The author of this study also asked several principals what they believed could improve the current district-wide hiring and recruiting system. Many said that they might like to see job candidates actually teaching in….....

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