[YEP-DC] Exciting opportunities with the new DC Public Schools Teacher Recruitment and Selection Team

I wanted to let you know about an exciting opportunity to be a part of D.C. Public Schools' work to transform public education. We are hiring for positions on the new DC Public Schools Teacher Recruitment and Selection Team.

 

The Office of Human Capital is at the center of many of Chancellor Kaya Henderson's most important reforms, which focus on what has come to be recognized as the most critical school-based factor in driving student achievement: teacher quality. Under the direction of Jason Kamras, the office works toward the goal of having a highly effective teacher in every DCPS classroom through a range of initiatives spanning teacher recruitment, selection, compensation, evaluation, recognition, and retention. Over the past three years, we have designed and implemented a groundbreaking new teacher evaluation system, a revolutionary teachers' contract, and an innovative performance pay system designed to provide our best educators with an unprecedented level of compensation for the extraordinary work they do. This year, we are looking forward to rolling out a new teacher career ladder that will help us to recruit and retain outstanding teachers and keep DCPS at the vanguard of the national educational education policy landscape.

As we move into the next phase of our human capital reform agenda, teacher recruitment and selection is our top priority. We have doubled the size of the central office team that will lead this work, and we are now seeking ambitious, innovative, talented individuals to join our efforts to assemble the smartest, most innovative, and best paid teacher force in America.

The Teacher Recruitment and Selection team will develop and execute an aggressive, innovative, national recruitment campaign and continue to improve DCPS's teacher selection model – already one of the most rigorous in the country among traditional public school systems.

Our goal is to be the first public school district to close the achievement gap – and to serve as an example for the rest of the country that this audacious goal can be achieved.

Will you join us?

For more information about the positions available on our team, please see the attached position descriptions. If you have any questions, please send an email to elizabeth.smyth@dc.gov.  

 

Best,

Elizabeth

 

Elizabeth Smyth

Coordinator

Teacher Effectiveness Strategy

 

Office of Human Capital

District of Columbia Public Schools

1200 First Street, NE
Washington, DC  20002
T  202.724.2232
F  202.442.5026
E  elizabeth.smyth@dc.gov

W http://dcps.dc.gov

 

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