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1. Cradles to Crayons - Our Philadelphia Story
cradlestocrayons.org/C2C/conte - [Cached]Published on: 2/7/2007 Last Visited: 5/10/2007
Shawn Crowder, Executive Director, Employee Entry, The School District of Philadelphia -
2. Cradles to Crayons - Our Philadelphia Story
cradlestocrayons.org/C2C/conte - [Cached]Published on: 2/7/2007 Last Visited: 5/10/2007
Shawn Crowder, Executive Director, Employee Entry, The School District of Philadelphia -
3. CED MetLife Partnership: Survey of the American Teacher, School Conditions, and Education Policy
www.ced.org/projects/educ_metl - [Cached]Last Visited: 6/10/2008
Address by Shawn Crowder
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Shawn Crowder, Interim Senior Vice President of Human Resources, delivered the keynote address.
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Keynote speaker Shawn Crowder outlined strategies adopted by the Philadelphia School District to retain the current workforce and to continue to attract high quality teachers.Crowder described the "Three R's" program of recruitment, retention, renewal as an ongoing initiative in the human resources department.
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Shawn CrowderWorking collaboratively with other departments internally.Crowder is working to expedite the process of external recruitment in the regional colleges and the speed in which the talent is approached and hired.Shawn Crowder, Interim Senior Vice President of Human Resources, School District of Philadelphia
Despite reforms, several challenges remain.Ms. Crowder notes that there is a disconnect between the pipeline of new teachers and demand in the schools.A majority of new graduates are trained in elementary education; however, the highest demand in the school district is for middle school teachers.The district faces challenges in preparing the new teachers for these assignments.Additionally, Ms. Crowder is concerned with providing support to the teachers who stay.Ms. Crowder contends that the programs need to be flexible and attentive to the variety of teachers.
