- Overall district reputation and
quality
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- Research the district; talk with parents, students, teachers,
secretaries. Look at the district Report Card.
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- How many of the last referenda have passed?
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- What is the composition of the School Board?
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- How well does the Board work with the teachers? With the
administrators?
- Administrative policy
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- Is there flexibility? Will you have leeway in the way you
teach?
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- Is there room for creative differences?
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- Can you work with the building administrators?
- Salary and benefits
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- Is the package you are being offered competitive with others in
the area? What makes it a good package? What are its
drawbacks?
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- What was the percentage of salary increase last year?
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- What are the steps in the salary schedule?
- Location
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- Is the school within a commuting distance for you?
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- Will you have a difficult time arriving at work in adverse
weather?
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- What is the composition of the community? Learn as much as you
can about the community before interviewing.
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- What advantages does the community provide?
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- What kinds of families have school-aged children? Where do most
of the teachers live?
- Parental involvement/interest in the
schools
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- What percentage of the parents attended the last open
house?
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- Do parents resist of support educational innovations and
reform?
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- How much parental support is there for the teachers?
- Teaching staff
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- What is the average age of the faculty? What is the average
educational level?
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- What is the average number of years that teachers have been
with the district?
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- How many internal promotions have there been?
- Budget
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- Will you have to furnish many of your own supplies, or will the
district support reasonable requests?
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- How much input will you have in determining what materials will
be ordered?
- Curriculum development
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- How much voice do teachers have in curriculum planning?
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- Is the district technologically competitive?
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- Is the curriculum one with which you are familiar?
- Problems
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- What are the major educational and social problems facing the
district?
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- What sorts of actions are being taken to resolve the
problems?
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- What long-range planning is in place to address issues of
concern?
- Innovations
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- How up-to-date is the school?
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- What is the physical appearance/condition of the facility?
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- What are standardized test scores?
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- What sort of testing is done?
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- How does the school rate in comparison to others in the
state?
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