Review Agenda Item
Meeting Date: 9/11/2023 - 6:30 PM
Category: New Business
Type: Action
Subject: Secretary Mentor/Mentee Program
Board Goals:
2. Attract, Recruit, and Retain High Quality Staff
i. Provide market competitive salaries ii. Maintain appropriate class size and caseloads iii. Promotion of continuous training and advanced degrees iv. Racial Equity among staff v. Workplace satisfaction and Value
Enclosure
File Attachment:
Background & Rationale: Last school year we lost approximately 18 secretaries from around the district. In addition to needing to look at compensation, we also clearly needed to provide more intentional training and support for our building and department secretaries. Creating a Mentor/Mentee program that ensures a “like” counterpart is accessible and responsible for guiding and growing our new secretaries will help us retain our highly qualified and highly critical secretarial staff. Given that this is a significant commitment for the secretaries that agree to be Mentors, we are proposing that each Mentor receive a $500.00 stipend for their work as Mentors over the 23-24 school year.
Budget to be Charged:
Motion: I move that the Board approve the Secretary Mentor stipend be approved as proposed for the 23-24 school year.
Approvals:
Recommended By:
Signed By:
Dr. Carl Calcara - Assistant Superintendent of Human Resources
Signed By:
Penelope Martin-Knox - Superintendent