Recruiting and Hiring
Recruiting and hiring the right staff is critical, and developing intentional processes for identifying and hiring the most appropriate candidates can have long-term institutional strategic value.

Webinars

Hiring for a Diverse Faculty - Kip Bordelon of The Picardy Group offers straight talk on the importance of schools building diverse candidate pools for every teaching and administrative position - and how to go about this. 
Mission-Smart Teacher Hiring - Peter Gow offers advice and guidelines for making the most of hiring fairs and interviews off and on campus—spotting the right characteristics, asking the right questions (and avoiding the wrong ones), and landing the teachers your school wants and needs.
At the Intersection of Policy and Practice: Hiring and Retaining Faculty of Color - As schools explore how best to hire and support faculty of color, it is worth reflecting on the many ways our actual processes are misaligned with what our policies outline—in places like school handbooks, hiring protocols, and school mission—as well as what we theoretically hope to achieve.
Building Your School's Faculty Recruiting Case - Peter Gow offers tips for creating a serious case statement for recruiting and hiring mission-appropriate and culture-compatible teachers. Diversify your recruiting pool as you focus on the right people to deliver and develop your school’s independent curriculum.

Professional Development

​On-Demand Programs
  • Interviewing and Hiring in Legal Compliance - NBOA Members click here & Non-Members click here: This on-demand program provides crucial training for supervisors, administrators and any employee involved in the interviewing and hiring process at your school. Participants will learn to engage in meaningful interviews while avoiding legal claims and pitfalls in the hiring process.
  • Mission-Smart Hiring: Starting Right​: Each year independent schools are faced with having to fill teaching positions, a task many leaders find onerous and that is always, to a degree, a kind of gamble. By starting from a position of institutional self-awareness and a clear sense of mission and a set of known priorities, a school can design a process for recruiting and hiring new faculty that will serve the needs of students and institution and vastly improve the chances of creating a great hiring match. This course shows how to design such a process.
Cohort Courses​​
  • HR Compliance: Participants will develop an understanding in key areas of federal human resources compliance and be empowered with the knowledge and tools to spot issues, address day-to-day human resources challenges, improve their policies and practices, and know when to engage legal counsel.

Podcasts

Thinking Strategically About Hiring - Host Peter Gow interviews Dr. Greg Martin, author of the Triple Threat Blog and principal at www.teachcoachlive.com, about how independent schools ought might think more strategically about the VERY important work of hiring faculty. It's not just about filling positions—it's about fulfilling your mission!

E-books & Research Papers

An Admirable Faculty: Recruiting, Hiring, Training, and Retaining the Best Independent School Teachers was first published by the National Association of Independent Schools in 2005. In this new edition for e-readers, author Peter Gow has extensively revised and updated the original text to help school leaders approach the critical task of building faculties with a set of intentional, proven-by-experience principles designed to maximize teacher effectiveness, achieve strategic goals, and most importantly to optimize the student experience.

The 2020 edition of An Admirable Faculty is now available from One Schoolhouse. For a PDF version, click HERE. For a print copy, click HERE. For the .epub version, click HERE. For the .MOBI version, click HERE. Kindle users might also want to download this easy conversion-and-upload-to-Kindle tutorial HERE.

Blogs