Department of Catholic Schools
Personnel and Administrative Services
To identify Catholic administrators and teachers and to support them in carrying out their personnel and administrative responsibilities, the staff provides the following services:
- development of a principal recruitment and selection process, incorporating the use of the SRI Principal Perceiver instrument;
- development of professional growth opportunities for administators;
- direction and guidelines for determining salary scales for both certified and classified employees;
- consultation regarding legal, human resource, and insurance matters;
- development of guidelines for classified personnel practices;
- updating principals on new regulations from the Commission on Teacher Credentialing and on state and federal laws pertaining to teachers;
- an up-dated Administrative handbook for elementary and secondary schools;
- facilitation of conflict resolution/management and use of grievance procedures.
For Elementary Schools
- orientation for all principals new to the Archdiocese; inservice for all first year principals who are enrolled in the Principal Internship Program;
- recruitment of teachers;
- initial and continuing inservice for all first year teachers who are enrolled in the Teacher Internship Program;
- facilitation of the distribution and completion of principal/teacher applications and the furnishing of names to principals for possible placement;
- assistance to pastors in identifying, interviewing and selecting principals
For Secondary Schools
- identification of future administrators
- regularly scheduled visits on organizations/publics;
- approval of requests for employment of certificated and classified personnel;
- inservice for first year teachers
