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2.  1 Director or Immediate Supervisor  1 Curriculum Supervisor  1 Building Level Administrator  2 Teachers  3 Parents (at least)  1 Child Study Team Member  1 Support Staff Member 2

3.  Solicitation of parent input of at least three parents (One of parents from the PTA)  Use focus group session for input on criteria only  Curriculum supervisor selected by a senior staff member and rotated for future vacancies  Building level administrator selected by chair of committee and rotated for future vacancies 3

4.  Experienced teachers  One teacher HTEA Building representative  One teacher selected by committee chairperson  Child study team member selected by Director of Special Services and rotated for future vacancies  Support staff from the school or department where vacancy exists selected by committee chairperson 4

5.  Exclude any member based on nepotism  Exclude any member who feels he/she cannot be objective  Exclude any member who has a conflict of interest based on board policy regarding ethics and professional expectations 5

6.  Legal matters pertaining to hiring  Confidentiality agreement 6

7.  Establish criteria using job description, unique needs of school or department and Goals of the District  Weigh criteria  Establish timeline 7

8.  Must indicate requirements and essential criteria established by the committee  Post on Applitrack  Budget permitting, advertise in regional paper  Electronically send to all Hamilton employees. 8

9.  Use in-house developed screening chart  Identify between six to twelve candidates that closely match the criteria 9

10. Paper Screen Rating 1 (low) – 10 (high) WEIGHTED CRITERIA Musts / Wants 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 123456789 10 T Comments: Add more as necessary

11.  Formulate questions based on job criteria established by the committee  Interview all candidates using only the questions developed and collect data for each answer  Committee checks references of candidates selected for second round of interviews 11

12.  Second round interviews using different questions for learning more about the candidate’s qualifications. Continue collecting data.  Apply data collected from both interviews using interview matrix 12

13. 13 Example Interview Matrix 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 12345T Comments : Interview Rating Weighted Criteria Musts / Wants Add more as necessary

14. 14 Committee identifies two to three candidates that best match criteria and sends recommendation to Superintendent

15.  Superintendent interviews candidate  Superintendent does a risk analysis on each candidate  Makes recommendation to Board of Education or re-opens the process 15