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Meeting Date:
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2/3/2022 - 6:30 PM
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Category:
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New Business and Reports to the Board
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Type:
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Info
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Subject:
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ACPS Recruitment Plan Update
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ACPS 2025 Strategic Plan Goal:
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Goal 1: Systemic Alignment ACPS will build a culture of continuous improvement and design equitable systems for school and instructional improvement. Goal 2: Instructional Excellence ACPS will ensure that all students have access to and engagement with high-quality instruction. Goal 3: Student Accessibility and Support ACPS will ensure students have equitable access to and engagement with programs and supports that reduce barriers to learning. Goal 4: Strategic Resource Allocation ACPS will strategically provide differentiated resources and supports to schools and departments. Goal 5: Family and Community Engagement ACPS will ensure that all families and community members feel welcomed, respected, and valued.
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Funding Source or Fiscal Impact (where applicable)
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Agenda Item Summary:
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In a challenging recruitment year, ACPS will continue to commit to creative, dynamic, and diversity-focused recruitment strategies and events to bring in top talent to our schools. To do so, the Human Resources division is committed to strengthening existing university and professional organization partnerships and to greatly increase the number of partners to create direct pipelines to our applicant pool. We are actively seeking partnerships with HBCUs and LatinX organizations.
ACPS is currently scheduled to attend 18 career fairs between February 2022 and April 2022. This reflects a 40% increase in events from the prior year, demonstrating our commitment to establishing connections with potential applicants across Virginia and around the world.
To commit applicants to ACPS early in the hiring season, HR will provide early offers to particularly strong candidates. We will maintain engagement with the full applicant pool through ongoing communications, including newsletters, email announcements, and the offering of informational sessions with key ACPS staff.
The usage of general applicant pools, in contrast to the prior practice of implementing position-specific postings, will greatly increase the number and quality of applicants that are committed to every and all ACPS schools and district vision. This will provide a larger number of applicants for school leaders to interview and consider for hire.
Lastly, the Recruitment team will be participating in ongoing training on recruitment best practices, including job fair preparation, norming on ACPS pitch language, and establishing candidate connections.
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Background:
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Given the global narrative around education and declining education program enrollment, the ACPS Recruitment Team is finalizing a recruitment plan that increases connections with partners and universities, commits applicants to ACPS earlier, and collaborates more strategically with school leaders as thought partners to dramatically reduce vacancy rates at the start and during school year 2022-2023.
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Recommendation:
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The Superintendent recommends that the School Board review the updates to ACPS Recruitment Plan.
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Approvals:
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Recommended By:
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Signed By:
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Dr. Gregory C. Hutchings, Jr. - Superintendent
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