Davis County School District staff describe recruitment work, say district hires roughly 300 teachers a year

Fran Niederhauser, the recruitment coordinator in the Professional Learning and Quality Staffing department at the Davis County School District, described the district's teacher recruitment program and outreach activities in recorded remarks.

Niederhauser said the district hires about 300 teachers a year and that her role centers on coordinating recruiting events such as career fairs and STEM fairs where district staff meet and interview candidates. "We hire around 300 teachers a year in the school district. My job specifically is coordinating the events that we usually attend," she said.

The comments outlined how district staff attend external events to meet prospective educators. "Most of them are career fairs and STEM fairs that we go to, and we travel, we go and meet, we get to interview, and it's great to actually meet all of those students. They're so excited," Niederhauser said.

Two early-career teachers who spoke in the same recording described how district outreach and a teacher academy affected their recruitment and early teaching experience. "As a second year teacher, being able to visit future educators is a wonderful opportunity. I was in their place just 2 years ago," said a second-year teacher, who credited meeting staff and participants for helping them choose the district.

Another teacher who said they were approached about a teacher academy thanked Niederhauser and other staff for the opportunity. "I'd like to thank Fran for giving me a chance, taking a shot on me, giving me the opportunity to show Davis District what I can offer and how I can help these kids and these students and these amazing communities that we're a part of," the teacher said.

Niederhauser also provided personnel figures for the district. She said the district has around 8,000 employees, of whom about 4,000 are teachers; she described the remainder as support staff. In the recording she said "we have around 8,000 employees here in the district, and 4,000 of them are teachers, but the other 4 are support staff." The remark appears to be a verbal truncation; the speaker intended the remainder to refer to roughly 4,000 support staff based on the context of the staffing totals she provided.

Speakers in the recording named Lisonbee Riddle and "Allison" as colleagues involved in recruitment or teacher-academy activities, but did not provide organizational titles for those individuals in the remarks.

No formal votes or policy actions were recorded in the provided transcript excerpts; the content consists of recruitment descriptions and personal testimony about district hiring and the teacher academy program.