GASPA PSC Committed to having a highly qualified teacher in every Georgia classroom

2. Quest for the Best Staffing Our Schools in the Era of No Child Left Behind Georgia Association of School Personnel Administrators Fall Conference - December 7, 2005 Robert Maxson, TeachGeorgia Program Manager Sherry Smith, Program Specialist Chuck McCampbell, Computer Services Director

3. Georgia Teacher Staffing Yesterday Today Tomorrow

4. The Beginning of Public Education in Georgia Savannah�s Massie Common School Opened October 15, 1856 Three teachers Including the Principal First day of school, 150 students Grew to 240 by end of school year

5. General Order No. 29 Issued in 1865 by Headquarters of U.S. Forces Teachers required to take examinations to qualify for employment In 1871, passing score was set at �80�

6. Massie Class Size In 1890, the seventh grade at Massie contained 71 students for one teacher 19th century average enrollment per teacher was always well above 50 students

7. The More Things Change... 1867 �Some teachers have shown an interest in their work almost amounting to enthusiasm� per Board Member 1871 School�s first principal left to become first superintendent of Atlanta�s yet-to-be opened school system

8. Public School Teacher Recruitment July 1991, PSC created as a separate state agency Attract the highest possible number of qualified personnel to become educators in GA

9. March 1996 �Over the next decade Georgia will enjoy a small surplus of teachers in all areas except physics and chemistry� Educator Supply and Demand in Georgia, Southern Regional Education Board

10. Late 1990�s Teacher Recruitment Electronic �job boards� Early Internet Age Isolated from other data Recruiting was supported by a �standalone� database� or was totally paper-based! 1999� Teacher Shortage!

11. Public School Recruitment Services In January, 2000, PSRS becomes TeachGeorgia.org Developed �Brand� identity United school systems to drive qualified teacher candidates to clearinghouse

12. Then Comes � No Child Left Behind in 2001 NCLB defines a highly qualified educator� Redefines teacher recruitment

13. Impact of NCLB on Recruiting Match educator�s qualifications to subject Requirement for a �highly qualified� educator Absolute requirement in Title I �situations� �Hard to staff� schools �High priority� schools In all cases, must send the dreaded �letter to the parents� when the teacher is not highly qualified

14. TeachGeorgia.org Between 7/1/04 to 6/30/05, 32,000 new registrants on the web site and 107,530 applications submitted School systems posted 5,726 jobs

16. 46.6% of Georgia�s newly hired teachers were either teachers from out-of-state OR were individuals transitioning into Education from a different profession

17. Georgia Teacher Supply Reality Check... If it was not for out-of-state teachers and career transition professionals, Georgia�s schools would be in a much more difficult position

18. Teacher Supply & Demand Successful out-of-state recruitment... only as long as other states produce more teachers than they need or GA is more attractive in terms of salary, benefits, and working conditions than in other states

20. Georgia Teacher Supply Reality Check� Georgia must remain competitive - not just with other states but with corporate America for talented people

21. Metro Atlanta�s Top Employers #1 Gwinnett County Schools #2 Kroger Company #3 Delta Airlines #5 BellSouth Corp. #9 Cobb County Schools #10 DeKalb County Schools #13 Fulton County Schools #16 IBM #17 Atlanta Public Schools #18 Clayton Clayton Schools

22. To Staff Georgia�s SchoolsWe Must Continue To... Market and promote the teaching profession to children and adults Attract professionals from other careers into the teaching profession Continue to encourage and shift perception from...

23. �Teacher Wannabe�s�To �ASPIRING EDUCATORS�

24. We Must Not Leave Any Prospective Highly Qualified Teacher Behind

25. 2,266 Non-Professional Placements in GA - FY05 One year PLT GATAPP 5-Year Non Renewable

26. Since January - TeachGeorgia Partnership with GA Dept. of Labor & Workforce Investment Boards Conducted 51 TeachGeorgia Information Sessions across the state (28 locations) Targeted at increasing the supply of prospective career switchers into GA classrooms

27. Current Value of the TeachGeorgia.org �Brand�for Teacher Recruitment?

30. TeachGeorgia.org 2004 - TeachGeorgia.org was redesigned Previously, it was a standalone data �silo� Redesign enabled TeachGeorgia.org to integrate with other PSC databases TeachGeorgia now part of an �Enterprise data system�

31. What is �Enterprise� Data? Not the �starship�! Enterprise data consists of an organization�s data organized by a �model� into a common structure

32. Enterprise Data for TeachGeorgia.org Data �Generated� by the Professional Standards Commission Certification Information System Certification Assessment Results Educator Ethics Educator Preparation Information System TAPP Candidates More to come...

33. Enterprise Data for TeachGeorgia.org Data acquired from other sources GDOE Certified Classified Personnel Information (CPI) Report GDOE Student Information System in future

34. TeachGeorgia.org Integrated data provides value to both job seeker and the school system Real-time updates of certification status More accurate picture

35. TeachGeorgia.org Understand �pools� of potential employees Identify sources of new teachers What sources of new teachers, what employee characteristics correlate with �retainable� employees?

38. Future for TeachGeorgia.org Increased integration with the Certification process to draw more �traffic� Online Certification Payments (22% of payments made online since July �05) Online Certification Application (aka �Son of ExpressLane� in FY �07)

39. Future for TeachGeorgia.org Enhancements in February and March Easier job search for applicants Easier application builder More attractive pages - style update More search options to help you find and filter applicants

40. Recruiter�s Future Get the �Highly Effective� Teachers Imagine the next step after NCLB� what if �highly qualified� isn�t enough? �Highly effective� is measured in the context of student achievement

41. �We have a long ways to go but we�re almost there�Ron Zook, former UF coach

42. QUESTIONS?