Strategic Priority 3 -
Foster Staff Growth & Engagement

Enhance recruitment practices: Implement targeted recruitment and retention initiatives such as affinity groups, growing our own educators, and partnering with Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and other higher education institutions to focus on unfilled vacancies and staff diversity.

Retain excellent staff: Enhance onboarding, new staff mentoring that includes a focus on conditionally licensed staff, and professional learning to reduce turnover.

Support engagement and well-being:

• Create structures to solicit feedback and promote shared decision making.
• Create a welcoming and inclusive work environment that values staff.
• Develop and implement a comprehensive plan to support staff well-being.

Rethink professional learning:

• Value staff time while providing access to effective professional learning that is role specific.
• Implement a system calendar and evaluate professional learning offerings.

Foster staff advancement: Provide staff with opportunities and support toward career advancement including understanding the career ladder and accessing job shadowing.