Human Resource Management
Sub-Competencies
- Recruit, hire, select, assign, and induct personnel.
- Support and develop staff through meaningful professional learning opportunities aligned with school goals.
- Implement and monitor employee performance and evaluation systems in accordance with legal, ethical, and organizational requirements.
- Ensure a safe, respectful, and productive work environment that supports staff effectiveness and student success.
Reflections and Artifacts
Summary: During mid-August, one of the elementary school music teachers accepted a position at another school district. This process involved interviewing, selecting, and hiring a new music teacher to fill the position. * The questions have been redacted
Reflection: One of the most important responsibilities of a school principal is selecting teaching staff to serve the students in the school building. During the summer hiring cycle, I handled the hiring process for 6 positions across the high school and the elementary school. While participating in this process, I learned how to read a candidate's application and which types of questions need to be answered after the candidate has finished their interview. I also learned about the importance of strategically designing the job description to align with what you expect in the role, so you can have a pool of candidates who know exactly what the job entails. Finally, I gained insight into the challenges that accompany interviewing candidates very late in the hiring season. Because several positions did not open until mid-August, there were fewer potential applicants for the roles, and in one case, this necessitated hiring from outside the licensure area. Overall, I learned about strategies to use, questions to ask, and the importance of maintaining staff before the start of the school year.
Summary: As board members of the Minnesota Music Educators Association, we are tasked with supervising the organization's executive director. This artifact is part of the formal reprimand letter, approved, and the action steps that will be taken to ensure the situation does not occur again
Reflection: School leaders are responsible for ensuring the rights of all students are being upheld. This is vital when working with students with varying needs. During a summer camp, a student was denied their due process rights in the administration of discipline, leading to a stressful situation for the camp's leadership and the student's impacted family. I learned that as the leader of a school or organization, it is important that your actions honor the rights of all those affected. As board members, our options for resolving the situation are limited; in this case, we ensured that proper processes were in place going forward. I learned the importance of following the correct chain of command when addressing system-wide failings and proactively creating support systems.
Summary: As part of the district mentorship and peer coaching leadership team. I am responsible for delivering and organizing new-teacher and mentor training, which takes place prior to the back-to-school workshop at the beginning of September. This dual-purpose training is the result of a complete revamp of the mentorship program within Foley Public Schools. Through this new teacher and mentor program, we have now trained more than 40 teaching staff in mentor training through the New Teacher Center Framework.
Reflection: A principal must have a clear vision and set of expectations within their building. On the second day of the new teacher workshop. New teachers had the opportunity to work with building principals to understand how their individual buildings operate. In this case, creating school handbooks and having clear, easy-to-scan materials that give new teachers guidance on addressing and distinguishing Tier 1 and 2 behaviors, and on when incidents are ones they are strong enough to handle. I have learned that in these early days, it is vital to help create an organized environment that enables teachers to enter the building on day 1, ready to serve students.