The district has established specific goals and is taking steps to ensure that our Hiring & Employment Practices are equitable for all. Please refer to Human Resources webpages for additional information.

Goals

• All students regardless of race, economic status, English language proficiency will have equitable access to diverse high quality educators and school leaders
• Leverage teacher evaluation system to clarify expectations and evaluate teacher competence with culturally proficient and culturally responsive teaching practices

Action Steps and Implementation

• Prioritize diversification of staff:
  • Participated in 5 diversity job fairs
  • Created new recruitment materials
  • Joined the Massachusetts Partnership for Diversity in Education organization 
  • Attended METCO career fair with a high school student to recruit staff of color
  • Formed Diversity Committee and met in December 2018; Committee consists of administrators and teachers
  • Set up a Recruitment Google Calendar to support the DLT (District Leadership Team) in attending a variety of events
• Review and update Hiring practices:
  • Shadow hiring practices at the school level
  • Consistent use of questions in interview process to understand candidates and experience, skills, facility and work with diverse populations
• Develop Retention practices:
  • Created working group to assist in the formation of MALANA (Multi-racial, African American, Latinx, Asian and Native American) group
  • Established a MALANA's professional learning opportunity with the support of Dr. Maureen Walker
• Train evaluators on what to look for:
  • During 3 District Leadership Team meetings, reviewed those aspects of evaluation that are directly tied to our equity work; in small groups, DLT shared dilemmas and worked in teams to develop new perspective on the work
• Develop tools to support process of observation:
  • Support for Goals and Action Steps
  • Resources have been included in the HR Newsletter to support this work