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Dear Reviewer,
Thank you for your feedback. Our team receives your input with much consideration.
We value our staff greatly here at EHTP and we take pride in ensuring that they have the full support they need to thrive and to reach our scholars. Your feedback regarding our leadership staff is important to us, and we will take this into consideration as we think about how to offer more support around professional development for our instructional staff and our school teams. We fully acknowledge and address that the COVID-19 pandemic has contributed to an increase in attrition & we acknowledge high turnover rates in charter school systems are typical. However, the Recruitment Team has been very strategic about setting new retention goals, as we are dedicated to celebrating, valuing and supporting our current and new staff members. One concrete example of this is that we have interviewed 99 newly hired staff members to retrieve feedback about onboarding and 90 day experience working with us here at EHTP. Based on the data we’ve collected from new hires we interviewed, nearly 100% of the staff reported that their ideas in the workplace are “accepted, considered and implemented.” We hope that this data will allow us to improve our best practices in our retention efforts and our support with the onboarding process at the start of hire.
At EHTP and East Harlem Scholars Academies, we also acknowledge that the hours for primarily instructional staff are long, and staff members are typically expected to take on additional responsibilities during the school day that they were originally unaware of at the start of their hire. While there should be an understanding of any staff member that is newly hired that there’s a level of commitment that is expected from our staff, as reflected in the website and the thoroughly written job descriptions, the Recruitment Team is increasing their efforts to create new roles and hire staff for these roles for the current and upcoming school year so that teachers and other staff will have enough time to complete the work that is expected of them. Please see our job description for our Operations and Culture Assistant role here: https://boards.greenhouse.io/eastharlemtutorialprogram/jobs/3642438
Our summer professional development is meant to set the tone and framework for our upcoming year, and is intended to be lived out and embodied by all of our teachers and leaders as they approach their work and practice. We fully believe that continued professional development critical to our school teams is an extension of our Summer Build Days.
Thank you again for your reflection. We hope you find this information useful. Please stay safe and be well!
