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Creating Professional Norms 

As a new principal one of the most important things you can do is hire the right people in order for students to be successful. Developing hiring norms for the entire campus provides the guidelines for finding the best teachers. For this activity you will reflect on the hiring practices on your current campus. What are the strengths and weaknesses of the hiring process currently in place? Are changes needed or necessary to hire the best teachers? Should these strengths and weakness help develop the norms/guidelines that govern hiring practices.

Use the following guidelines and your textbook to develop 4-6 norms for a comprehensive recruitment, selection, hiring, and retention process. (For example, refer to page 153 in your textbook, Breakthrough Principals, to see the 4 norms/guidelines that the principal of Brooklyn Latin School and his team established as their hiring norms/guidelines.) These questions may guide your thinking as well. 

1. What is the process for selecting the recruitment and selection team? 
2. How will you determine your hiring goals for the next 1-3 years?
3. What type of candidate will best support the vision and mission of your campus?
4. How will you ensure timelines are developed in order to hire the best candidates in a timely manner?
5. How would you use this process of establishing norms with your faculty?