PERSONNEL GOALS/PRIORITY OBJECTIVES

The personnel employed by this school system constitute the most important resource for effectively conducting a quality learning program. Important contributions to a successful education program are made by all staff members. The system's program will function best when it employs highly qualified personnel, conducts appropriate staff development activities and establishes policies and working conditions which are conducive to high morale, enabling each staff member to make the fullest contribution to students, programs and services.

The goals of the personnel program shall include the following:

A. To develop and implement those strategies and procedures for personnel recruitment, screening and selection which will result in employing the best available candidates, i.e., those with highest capabilities, strongest commitment to quality education and greatest probability of effectively implementing the learning program;

B. To develop general deployment strategy for greatest contribution to the learning program and to utilize it as the primary basis for determining staff assignments;

C. To develop a climate in which optimum staff performance, morale and satisfaction are produced;

D. To provide positive programs of staff development designed to contribute both to improvement of the learning program and to each staff member's career development aspirations;

E. To provide reasonable compensation and benefits as well as other provisions for staff welfare; and

F. To develop and utilize for personnel evaluation positive processes which contribute to the improvement of both staff capabilities and the learning program.

Adopted: 12-7-99