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Subject:
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Update on Substitute Hire Program |
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ACPS 2025 Strategic Plan Goal:
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Goal 2: Instructional Excellence ACPS will ensure that all students have access to and engagement with high-quality instruction.
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Funding Source or Fiscal Impact (where applicable):
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File Attachment:
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Agenda Item Summary:
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Regionally, the pandemic situation has worsened the perennial substitute shortage. To prepare for this challenge, ACPS plans to employ a third-party vendor to help recruit and hire substitute staff. Using both internal and external hiring services, this recruiting initiative will help ensure we have available, trained and qualified substitutes for our schools. As a strategic-recruiting initiative, this dual-sourcing approach is a similar effort to the highly successful and popular classroom monitor program employed in our schools this past spring. |
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Background:
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While the substitute shortage is a perennial recruiting challenge, the COVID-19 pandemic has worsened and complicated efforts to recruit and hire these workers. First, the availability of persons to do substitute work is impacted and constrained by the public health situation at home (e.g. need to stay-at-home to care for family) and work (e.g. ability to wear masks all day). Second, there is a high demand for substitutes who possess computer skills. The best substitutes have a measure of skills, knowledge and ability to learn and use on-line software programs. These conditions make recruiting quality substitutes more difficult than ever before. |
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Recommendation
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The Superintendent recommends the School Board to review this information contained in the brief. |
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Approvals:
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Final-Clerk of the Board - Proxy |
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