Episode 69: Principals’ Perspectives: Hiring Teachers, Staffing Shortages & Real Talk on School Leadership

About this episode

The episode features an unscripted conversation about the challenges of hiring and staffing in educational leadership.

Connect with the Show Here! Thirteen hires by April. Internal transfers that “go over like a turd in a punch bowl.” Schools trying to keep construction, CNA, phlebotomy, and dual enrollment alive while staffing gets tighter. If you’re leading a building right now, you know the feeling: everything matters at once, and spring turns the pressure up. We sit down for an unscripted conversation with co-host Robert Hinchliffe to compare two very different realities of educational leadership: a rura...

People in this episode

Host: Jeff Linden

Guest: Robert Hinchliffe

Topics covered

• hiring teachers
• staffing shortages
• school leadership
• educational challenges
• internal transfers

Keywords

• educational leadership
• staffing
• teacher hiring
• school management
• internal transfers

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