Strategies to Attract New Teachers to Schools that Need Them Most
This article was written originally for MultiBriefs Education . School principals from coast to coast are reporting that this year may have been one of the most tumultuous for hiring and staffing. The pandemic disrupted normal staffing patterns for a variety of reasons, including filling the voids left by teachers who needed to take leaves of absences and those who needed to work remotely (which means someone needed to be in the classroom with in person students). Principals had to get creative on how they would find new teachers, and many answered the call and gave a teaching career a try for the first time. In my school for example, I hired no less than fifteen teaching positions over the course of the year for my sixty teacher school. This is more than double the hiring rate that is typical for my school community. Many of my new hires were recent college graduates who didn’t necessarily study to be a teacher but pivoted when their original industry was having hiring delays as