Oakland Unified School District Classroom Teacher Employment Report

1. Oakland Unified School District Classroom Teacher Employment Report New Classroom Teachers: Gender 100 65 66% Percentage 40 34% 15 Male Female Classroom Teacher Education Levels Doctorate 1% Juris Doctorate .08% Master’s 32% Bachelor’s 66% The Oakland Unified School District continued to strive for excellence in its 2006-2007 recruitment efforts. The District Human Resources Services & Support and its partners are dedicated to the vision of selecting qualified teachers who will connect each child to a successful future, everywhere and every day. This report provides an overview of the classroom teachers employed for the 2006-2007 academic year. These are highlights of demographics, source, education level and assignment of the newly-hired teachers. As a school district, we employed approximately three hundred teachers. As a result, 99% of our classrooms were staffed for the first day of school. This year’s recruiting season proved that the District remains an attractive school district for new teachers. New Classroom Teachers: Bilingual 100 65 64% Percentage 40 36% 15 Bilingual Non-Bilingual Diversity is essential to our students and community. This recruitment season brought teachers from across the country. New teachers have relocated from such states as New York, Ohio, Michigan, Colorado and Texas. Recruitment efforts also included Spain. The District recruited seventeen credentialed teachers from Spain. Of our newly-hired teachers, thirty-six percent are bilingual. Eighty-two percent of our bilingual teachers are Spanish bilingual. Our recruitment cohorts helped to make a significant impact in our hard-to-fill teaching assignments. The New Teacher Project brought forty percent of our new teachers, of which the majority were math, science and special education teachers. Teach For America candidates constituted ten percent of our new teachers who teach primarily math and science. 45% of new teachers applied through Edjoin, the District’s online applicant tracking system. 56% of new classroom teachers are graduates of a California college or university Recruitment Source Classroom Assignment Spain Recruitment # Teachers New Teacher Project 60 Edjoin 134 6% 44% New Teacher Project 35% 120 30 Percentage Edjoin 40% Teach For America 45% 30 21% 10 Spain 17 10% Teach for America Total 301 Elementary School Middle School High School

2. Classroom Teacher Assignments by Subject Matter Human Resources Services and Support manage both the transition of current classroom teachers from traditional to new small schools, as well as replacing the teachers who leave the District. The District lost a total of 193 teachers from June 14, 2006 to August 22, 2006. The recruitment strategy was focused on both hard-to-fill subject areas and multiple subject positions. Close to 50% of the classroom teaching positions were in subject areas such as, math, science, Spanish and special education. The development and opening of our new small schools created 173 classroom teaching positions. 94 of these positions were staffed with existing District teachers. 79 were staffed with newly-hired teachers. At the close of the 2005-2006 academic year the District had over 1,800 classroom teachers. The turnover rate over the summer was 13.4%. Classroom Teacher Turnover (June 14 – August 22, 2006) The majority of classroom teachers resigning from June 14, 2006 to August 22, 2006 was due to personal reasons, which include health and continuing education. A small Classroom Teacher Turnover (August 23 – September 29) percentage, .05%, of classroom teachers indicated job dissatisfaction. Due to great strides in our recruitment efforts, including strong relationships with our cohorts, the District can continue to meet the demands of recruiting classroom teachers to teach in our hard-to-fill subject areas. ___ ___ ___