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New HR director says district 100% staffed for teachers and administrators; substitutes and special education positions remain hard to fill
Summary
Erin Green, in her third month as HR director, reported teacher and administrator staffing at 100% but identified ongoing challenges in special education hires, late resignations and substitutes. The board discussed retention, recruitment pipelines and early‑resignation incentives.
Erin Green, the district's director of human resources, told trustees she has completed three months on the job and that the district had a strong start to the school year: certificated teacher and administrator positions were fully staffed and the district had hired more than 80 people since March (about 12'13% of staff). Green said support staff levels fluctuate and that recruitment continues for custodial leads, a new HVAC position and several special education roles.
Green said the most persistent hiring challenges are fully credentialed special education teachers and speech therapists, filling temporary leaves that occur during the school year, and late resignations that arrive after May and complicate planning. She described ongoing steps to expand pipelines: early recruiting ahead of the county job fair, partnering with Santa Clara County residency programs to develop classified employees into credentialed teachers, strengthening employee referral incentives and exploring longer‑term substitutes through county TIPSL permits and an external substitute partner (Swing).
Green told trustees the district is actively pursuing retention tools including building stronger connections with staff through site visits, improving onboarding, conducting exit interviews and considering targeted early‑resignation incentives that would reward timely notice rather than encourage departures. She emphasized a district strategy to "grow our own" candidates via residencies and internal pipelines and said the district was focused on hiring credentialed substitutes so classrooms are not staffed by short‑term, uncredentialed substitutes.
Trustees thanked Green for the presentation. Public comment reiterated concerns about last‑minute resignations and suggested the district consider overhire strategies to hedge predictable spring departures; Green agreed the district was looking at earlier recruiting and over‑hiring where feasible to reduce midyear disruption.
No board vote was associated with the HR update; trustees asked staff to continue pursuing pipeline and retention strategies and to report back as plans develop.
