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Equitable Hiring Practices For Hr Directors: It Is All About The How, Jennifer B. Harlan
Equitable Hiring Practices For Hr Directors: It Is All About The How, Jennifer B. Harlan
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District Human Resource departments are tasked with developing rationale, policies, and a hiring process that prioritizes hiring high quality applicants that reflect diverse backgrounds with proven experience and success with district student populations. Staff must hire diverse candidates but to do so, they must examine the implications for equitable hiring practices and remove obstacles and barriers currently in place. The purpose of this paper is to research district action plans and system changes that are taking place in schools to hire a diverse staff. State laws, district policies, and action plans are a great step but how the steps are …
Measuring Cultural Competency In Educators: The Educators Scale Of Student Diversity, Ronak A. Patel
Measuring Cultural Competency In Educators: The Educators Scale Of Student Diversity, Ronak A. Patel
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The purpose of this study was to uncover a rich theoretical basis of cultural competency and awareness in education and create an instrument, Educators Scale of Student Diversity (ESSD), which reliably and validly measures cultural competency in educators. Current measures lack in both a wide theoretical basis of cultural competency as it relates to educators in diverse teaching environments and in reported psychometric quality. The ESSD derived from a wide range of theoretical constructs that encompass the experience of modern teachers in diverse environments. The original 50 items, which were written after an extensive literature review, were reviewed by a …