1. Staffing & Deployment – Equitable Distribution
Summary

2. Equitable Distribution
Content in Context
How do you ensure the best teachers to the students and schools who need them most?
Equitable Distribution 

3. What is Equitable Distribution?
Equitable Distribution is a deliberate and systematic structure of selecting, staffing, incentivizing, and grouping teachers and principals within and across schools with the aim of closing achievement and opportunity gaps
A number of complementary factors impact how effective teachers and principals are distributed within and across schools. Attending to one factor below, without addressing others may yield insufficient results
Principal leadership
Working conditions
Principal and teacher assignments - novice and experienced staff placement
Transfers - involuntary and voluntary transfers by seniority, etc.
Lockstep pay structures
HR policies/processes - hiring timelines, timing of transfer periods, reduction in force, etc.
Opportunities/incentives for working in high-needs schools
HR policies and processes may be a result of collective bargaining contracts that need revision
Strategic or Not

4. Ways of Measuring Equity
Between Schools
Within Schools
Access to effective teachers across schools
% of effective teachers by high/low-needs designation
Distribution of highly-effective teachers
Other indicators used
% of vacancies and turnover in high/low-needs schools (stability of staff)
Pre-service measures such as scoring on national tests (like Praxis) or SAT scores
Effectiveness of principal
Access to effective teachers across classes
Level of effectiveness or experience of teacher compared to their assignment of students (Miami-Dade study)
% of minority/high-needs students taught by secondary teachers with deep content knowledge (subject majors or advanced degrees)
Students assigned to first-year teachers
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5. Why is This Important? Equitable Distribution
No matter how you “define” teacher effectiveness, low-income, minority and lower achieving students end up with the least effective teachers*
Value-added
Teacher experience
Licensing scores
Equity challenges exists across and within districts and schools*
Human capital policies can help or hinder equitable distribution efforts
Strategic or Not
Goldhaber, Theobald, & Lavery, 2015

6. Keep in Mind Things to Remember
There is no silver bullet – multiple factors impact equitable distribution and must be addressed
Begin by looking at your data to understand your challenges – looking within and across schools
Differentiate services to provide additional supports to schools with the greatest inequities
Strategic or Not

7. Making Connections Related Content
Levers for Impacting Equitable Distribution
Highlights key district practices and policies that impact equitable distribution of teachers and principals from the Teacher and Principal ABC Tools
Guiding Questions for Equitable Distribution Conversations
Offers guiding questions district teams can use to hold conversations about equitable distribution
Differentiated Services to Schools
Establishes well-rounded criteria for identifying High-Needs or Highest-Needs schools in the school district, and then provides samples of differentiated services options to drive improved talent and performance
Power Metrics
Provides the top metrics HR/HC must measure and use to support and improve the quality of teachers, principals, and HR/HC services within the district