This past year the pandemic pushed all of us responsible for education talent management and culture to focus on the essentials: ensuring our people...
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Welcome to Candid Conversations with AASPA.
We are fortunate to have members willing to share their expertise, experience and wisdom as human resource professionals. These topics are not only relevant to human capital leaders, but are at the forefront of the issues facing education today. Read on, and enjoy. And if you feel like contributing, go ahead and Tweet and remember to include #AASPA.
As with many school districts, the process of recruiting, hiring and managing substitute teachers and paraprofessionals had become an overwhelming...
Read PostAs we approach a year of learning disruption at the hands of COVID-19, students across the country are still not where they need to be academically....
Read PostLooking ahead to the 2021/22 school year, we see one North Star guiding school staffing: educators across America are irreplaceable. Fatigued...
Read PostWhen we talk about education, it is important to make a distinction between equity and equality. Equality would mean allocating the same level of...
Read PostI had no plans to become a teacher. Sure, I liked kids, I had been a camp counselor, and I always knew I would do something to serve the public...
Read PostFor decades, school districts across the U.S. have been struggling to do more with less: Budget constraints are established top-down at the state...
Read PostSourcing Through Networking Webster’s (2021) defines networking as “An interconnected or interrelated chain, group, or system.”...
Read PostIf ever there was a time to bring together a diverse set of stakeholders to help identify their most urgent needs and weigh in on spending...
Read PostA2020-2021 AASPA Award Nominations Nominate your colleagues, districts and affiliates for international recognition through AASPA! You can...
Read PostTake Time for You: Self-Care Action Plans for Educators by Dr. Tina Boogren is a straightforward approach to making self-care a priority for...
Read PostFun fact #1:I “accidently” came upon this thin, purple, hard-back book, Through the Cracks, (Sollman, Emmons, & Paolini, 1994),...
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