Strategic Staffing Models
The world has changed fundamentally in the past hundred years but our approach to K-12 education has remained the same. We need a new approach to teaching and learning that transforms the profession to deepen teacher collaboration and enable personalized learning.
Strategic staffing—redefining the roles of adults in schools to move away from traditional one-teacher, one-classroom models—offers a transformative opportunity.
To succeed, strategic staffing models demand flexible approaches that teacher contracts can sometimes constrain. Strategic staffing and strong contracts are not mutually exclusive. Modifying contract rules to allow the flexibility necessary for innovation, without sacrificing protections for teachers, is both possible and necessary.
Exploring various provisions within our contract bank can illuminate how carefully constructed and flexible policies can support strategic staffing in today’s classrooms.
Teacher Leadership
Create well-compensated, meaningful leadership roles that attract and select highly effective teachers to take on greater responsibility
Compensation
Increase pay for teacher leaders who take on more responsibility
Professional Learning
Encourage the teacher-to-teacher collaboration and dedicated time necessary to make professional learning successful
Teacher Evaluation
Establish evaluation systems that leverage multiple measures of teacher performance, provide opportunities for continuous feedback and growth, and connect to customized professional learning
School-based Flexibility
Create mechanisms for site-based flexibility that allow schools to make decisions best for their school community, thus providing them the means to eliminate contract barriers to strategic staffing
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