Recruit and Hire Diverse Teachers and Leaders

You need this if you want to: Diversify your talent pool and redesign your recruitment and selection practices.

Key activities conducted by the DEI specialist may include:

Define goals for recruitment and hiring so that teachers and leaders reflect the backgrounds of the students and communities served.
Review recruitment and hiring timelines and streamline application processes to reduce barriers for applicants. Expand recruitment efforts to increase outreach to candidates of color.
Review and revise hiring policies, practices and rubrics to make them more transparent, unbiased and inclusive (e.g., by training interviewers on mitigating bias).
Develop a standardized onboarding process that provides support to people from diverse backgrounds.
Consider deeper organizational changes necessary to become an employer of choice for diverse teachers and leaders.

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Retain and Advance Diverse Teachers and Leaders

You need this if you want to: Support diverse teachers and leaders to advance in their careers.

Key activities conducted by the DEI specialist may include:

Identify retention, advancement and compensation gaps between staff of different race/ethnicities and socio-economic backgrounds.
Engage with relevant stakeholders, such as the leadership team, staff and board, to set clear time-bound retention and advancement goals.
Design and implement equitable professional development opportunities and other structures (e.g., standardized onboarding process, affinity groups, etc.) to support retention and advancement.
Revise and standardize staff evaluation processes (e.g., systems to enable managers and employees to track feedback and progress). Train managers on how to give performance reviews and feedback to mitigate bias.
Define clear and transparent principles for compensation and advancement decisions.
Develop a succession plan to achieve/maintain diverse leadership and provide growth opportunities to support development.
Develop processes and systems to track and review retention and advancement data and trends, recalibrating policies and practices as needed.

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You need this if you want to: Recruit, retain and engage a diverse board.

Key activities conducted by the DEI specialist may include:

Define the profile for members of the board which includes diversity, expertise and personal experiences.
Review existing board policies and expectations to understand its possible impact on the organization’s ability to recruit and retain diverse board candidates.
Aid in the process of identifying and recruiting new, diverse board members, including adding members of the community.

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