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District unveils "Portrait of an Educator" framework to guide hiring, growth and retention
Summary
Indian Prairie CUSD 204 presented a new Portrait of an Educator framework the board said will be used to align recruitment, interview practices, professional growth and retention. The framework identifies five core competencies and will be piloted in interviews and expanded over three years.
District leaders presented the results of a committee project to define a Portrait of an Educator on April 7, saying the framework will guide hiring, professional growth and retention across Indian Prairie CUSD 204.
Sharon Ruff, the district's director of human resources, and Katie Popp, IPEA president and teacher, said the committee worked with Battelle for Kids and reviewed roughly 70 candidate competencies before narrowing to five core competencies for educators. They described the work as a complement to the…
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