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Prioritizing teacher recruitment for specific license areas
1:22:04
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Chancellor Melissa Aviles-Ramos discusses the prioritization of recruiting teachers for specific license areas, particularly special education and bilingual education. She also mentions efforts to incentivize existing teachers to use additional licenses.
- Focus on recruiting special education and bilingual/ENL teachers
- Efforts to grant automatic tenure for teachers with multiple licenses
- Expectation of increased applications through the open market process at the end of the school year
Rita Joseph
1:22:04
Is there prioritizing certain license areas since there we do have shortages across the city in certain licensing areas?
Melissa Aviles-Ramos
1:22:15
We continue to prioritize special education, our bilingual e and l teachers, and that's not only specific to meeting the class size mandate, but that's just historically that we know we have to do a lot of extra targeted recruitment around those licensing areas.
1:22:33
And also, I'm sure you remember, Chair, you were very helpful when we asked the state to grant that automatic tenure to those teachers who already successfully completed tenure and one license and held a secondary license.
1:22:47
Doing creative things like that so that way the excellent teachers we have in the system, we can incentivize them to use other licenses.
1:22:55
Just on one more point, a lot of the So we will definitely give you the number
May DePierro
1:23:00
of teachers who have applied thus far,
Melissa Aviles-Ramos
1:23:02
but also knowing that as we end the closing of the school year we're going to see those numbers increase through open market in the coming Yes.