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Employee engagement committee focuses on substitute rates and teacher retention as KPI
Summary
The board’s Employee Engagement and Culture committee reported an 11.27% resignation rate for 2024–25 and recommended focusing the committee’s KPI on employee engagement, with follow-up work on substitute pay and staffing methods.
Board member Carr reported on the Employee Engagement and Culture Committee meeting July 15, which focused on substitute pay, resignation rates and committee priorities for the coming year.
Carr said committee staffer Dee Garcia compared the district’s substitute pay to neighboring districts and found the district sometimes pays at or above peers’ daily rates. The committee discussed whether using staffing agencies (for example, Edges or Teachers on Call) would affect “fill rates” for substitutes and whether barriers beyond pay — scheduling triggers for requesting substitutes — explain shortages. The committee agreed to continue investigating and examine how subs are triggered so building substitutes are reserved for emergencies.
Carr said the district’s resignation rate for 2024–25 was 11.27%, and the committee concluded that many retention metrics point back to employee engagement; it named four candidate KPIs — teacher retention, vacancy rate, employee engagement and workplace diversity — and selected employee engagement as the year’s focus. Next steps include analyzing employee‑engagement survey data and presenting trends to the committee prior to the next meeting.
Board members asked committee staff to clarify processes by which subs are called and to report back with proposals for removing non‑pay barriers to substitute staffing.
