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. Quest for the BestStaffing Our Schools in the Era of No Child Left BehindGeorgia Association of School Personnel AdministratorsFall Conference - December 7, 2005Robert Maxson, TeachGeorgia Program ManagerSherry Smith, Program SpecialistChuck McCampbell, Computer Services Director. Geor
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2. Quest for the Best
Staffing Our Schools in the Era of No Child Left Behind
Georgia Association of School Personnel Administrators
Fall Conference - December 7, 2005
Robert Maxson, TeachGeorgia Program Manager
Sherry Smith, Program Specialist
Chuck McCampbell, Computer Services Director
3. Georgia Teacher Staffing Yesterday
Today
Tomorrow
4. The Beginning of Public Education in Georgia Savannah’s Massie Common School
Opened October 15, 1856
Three teachers
Including the Principal
First day of school, 150 students
Grew to 240 by end of school year
5. General Order No. 29 Issued in 1865 by Headquarters of U.S. Forces
Teachers required to take examinations to qualify for employment
In 1871, passing score was set at “80”
6. Massie Class Size In 1890, the seventh grade at Massie contained 71 students for one teacher
19th century average enrollment per teacher was always well above 50 students
7. The More Things Change... 1867
“Some teachers have shown an interest in their work almost amounting to enthusiasm” per Board Member
1871
School’s first principal left to become first superintendent of Atlanta’s yet-to-be opened school system
8. Public School Teacher Recruitment
July 1991, PSC created as a separate state agency
Attract the highest possible number of qualified personnel to become educators in GA
9. March 1996 “Over the next decade Georgia will enjoy a small surplus of teachers in all areas except physics and chemistry”
Educator Supply and Demand in Georgia, Southern Regional Education Board
10. Late 1990’s Teacher Recruitment Electronic “job boards”
Early Internet Age
Isolated from other data
Recruiting was supported by a “standalone” database… or was totally paper-based!
1999… Teacher Shortage!
11. Public School Recruitment Services
In January, 2000, PSRS becomes TeachGeorgia.org
Developed “Brand” identity
United school systems to drive qualified teacher candidates to clearinghouse
12. Then Comes … No Child Left Behind in 2001
NCLB defines a highly qualified educator…
Redefines teacher recruitment
13. Impact of NCLB on Recruiting Match educator’s qualifications to subject
Requirement for a “highly qualified” educator
Absolute requirement in Title I “situations”
“Hard to staff” schools
“High priority” schools
In all cases, must send the dreaded “letter to the parents” when the teacher is not highly qualified
14. TeachGeorgia.org Between 7/1/04 to 6/30/05, 32,000 new registrants on the web site and 107,530 applications submitted
School systems posted 5,726 jobs
16. 46.6% of Georgia’s newly hired teachers were either teachers from out-of-state OR were individuals transitioning into Education from a different profession
17. Georgia Teacher Supply
Reality Check...
If it was not for out-of-state teachers and career transition professionals, Georgia’s schools would be in a much more difficult position
18. Teacher Supply & Demand
Successful out-of-state recruitment... only as long as other states produce more teachers than they need or GA is more attractive in terms of salary, benefits, and working conditions than in other states
20. Georgia Teacher Supply
Reality Check…
Georgia must remain competitive - not just with other states but with corporate America for talented people
21. Metro Atlanta’s Top Employers #1 Gwinnett County Schools
#2 Kroger Company
#3 Delta Airlines
#5 BellSouth Corp.
#9 Cobb County Schools
#10 DeKalb County Schools
#13 Fulton County Schools
#16 IBM
#17 Atlanta Public Schools
#18 Clayton Clayton Schools
22. To Staff Georgia’s SchoolsWe Must Continue To... Market and promote the teaching profession to children and adults
Attract professionals from other careers into the teaching profession
Continue to encourage and shift perception from...
23. “Teacher Wannabe’s”To “ASPIRING EDUCATORS”
24. We Must Not Leave Any Prospective Highly Qualified Teacher Behind
25. 2,266 Non-Professional Placements in GA - FY05 One year PLT
GATAPP
5-Year Non Renewable
26. Since January - TeachGeorgia Partnership with GA Dept. of Labor & Workforce Investment Boards
Conducted 51 TeachGeorgia Information Sessions across the state (28 locations)
Targeted at increasing the supply of prospective career switchers into GA classrooms
27. Current Value of the TeachGeorgia.org “Brand”for Teacher Recruitment?
30. TeachGeorgia.org
2004 - TeachGeorgia.org was redesigned
Previously, it was a standalone data “silo”
Redesign enabled TeachGeorgia.org to integrate with other PSC databases
TeachGeorgia now part of an “Enterprise data system”
31. What is “Enterprise” Data? Not the “starship”!
Enterprise data consists of
an organization’s data
organized by a “model”
into a common structure
32. Enterprise Data for TeachGeorgia.org Data “Generated” by the Professional Standards Commission
Certification Information System
Certification
Assessment Results
Educator Ethics
Educator Preparation Information System
TAPP Candidates
More to come...
33. Enterprise Data for TeachGeorgia.org
Data acquired from other sources
GDOE Certified Classified Personnel Information (CPI) Report
GDOE Student Information System in future
34. TeachGeorgia.org Integrated data provides value to both job seeker and the school system
Real-time updates of certification status
More accurate picture
35. TeachGeorgia.org Understand “pools” of potential employees
Identify sources of new teachers
What sources of new teachers, what employee characteristics correlate with “retainable” employees?
38. Future for TeachGeorgia.org Increased integration with the Certification process to draw more “traffic”
Online Certification Payments (22% of payments made online since July ‘05)
Online Certification Application (aka “Son of ExpressLane” in FY ‘07)
39. Future for TeachGeorgia.org Enhancements in February and March
Easier job search for applicants
Easier application builder
More attractive pages - style update
More search options to help you find and filter applicants
40. Recruiter’s Future Get the “Highly Effective” Teachers Imagine the next step after NCLB… what if “highly qualified” isn’t enough?
“Highly effective” is measured in the context of student achievement
41. “We have a long ways to go but we’re almost there”Ron Zook, former UF coach
42. QUESTIONS?