Chief Human Resources Officer Jill Rhodes Pruin discussed staff positions during the Sept. 15 board of trustees meeting, including custodians, bus drivers, food service employees, teaching assistants, teachers and speech and language therapists.
“These are some areas where we know we have had some challenges with staffing in the past,” she said.
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Rhodes Pruin said district staff is focused on improving retention and ensuring staff stay with the district each school year.
This strategy includes offering paid teacher residencies and promoting teacher assistants to full-time teaching positions.
The district also offers a teacher pathway program, which is being developed to guarantee student teaching opportunities for BISD graduates who pursue a career in education.
“This school year, Boerne hired 121 teachers, and 34 of those were brand new,” Rhodes Pruin said.
While the district is in a better position than this time last year as far as staffing, trustee Rich Sena said the goal is to focus on retention.
“I think that is our next goal is what we can do to reduce turnover and what would the–not just savings be–but the improvement in the operation in the district,” Sena said.
