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Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Slarce
When you got hired as a teacher, were you hired by the district or the school? Down here we're hired by the district and placed at the school but the principal recommends who he/she wants to hire.
Re: Slarce
This county has "Site based management" so the principals have more control than usual. There was a teacher fair and I signed up with which principals to interview with (so I could avoid the really bad schools). If one wants you, they offer you a contract. Two offered me a contract, so I signed with the county and was able to pick which school (from those two) that I wanted.
VA isn't that way, but this county is.
Why are they taking so long in giving you the contract?
Because our gov. won't accept stimul $$, they're relocating teachers rather than fire teachers. Because of this contract date got pushed back until May 15th.
I had the principal say he recommended me to the district which is an offer. I'm now getting calls from other schools to interview and I don't know if I am allowed to interview with them or not.
Aahh... DEFINITELY interview with other schools. Until you sign the contract, you can interview. Offers aren't binding and even if the principal recommends you, there many not be a space for you if they move another teacher and you could be left hanging! Moving teachers around will take them awhile, and there will be teachers who wait until the last minute to tell them they're moving, got another jobs, etc.
I got offers from 6 different school districts and that way I could decide what classes I wanted to teach, if it mattered to me to get my own classroom, etc.
Our county did accept stimulus money and it allowed them to give us a raise, continue matching retirement contributions, and keep more positions. We call moving teachers "D staffing", but some people still lose their jobs if there aren't places to put them, because the positions are full.