Goals+-+Staffing


 * STAFFING ** –
 * __Goals: (Derived from the SWOT Issues)__**
 * 1) St Francis of Assis Catholic school will design, implement, and fund staff-focused programs that nurture and enhance the spiritual, professional, academic, physical, mental, and emotional aspects of the lives of the teachers and staff thereby helping to create a happy, serene, loving, deeply spiritual, and Catholic culture at SFA.
 * 2) St Francis of Assis Catholic school will analyze, assess, and implement a teacher-student ratio that promotes efficient and effective instruction and articulation of the curriculum while taking into account the need to maintain reasonable, competitive, and affordable tuition rates.

__**Objectives: (Derived from the Goals listed above)**__

> resignation, immediate termination, or non-renewal of employment contracts.
 * 1) Design and implement an exit interview process for all exiting faculty members regardless of the cause, i.e.,
 * 1) Design and implement a conflict-resolution program that will allow parents, faculty, administration, and pastors to effectively communicate issues, concerns, conflicts, and problems in a non-threatening and positive manner that fosters and reinforces the partnership between parents and faculty in the education of the children.
 * 2) Establish a five- to eight-member committee comprised of one or two parents, one or two faculty members, Principal or Vice-Principal, guidance counselor, and the lead pastor that will design and develop the conflict-resolution process for SFA. This committee will also develop and design a "pastor-led" exit interview for teachers and staff leaving SFA. Parents and teachers could be volunteers or appointed by the pastors.
 * 3) Administration must identify programs and courses that will benefit faculty in terms of prefessional growth, spiritual enrichment, social development, and academic advancement. Teachers must be allowed time to take such courses or attend seminars during school days.
 * 4) Finance Council must ensure that SFA's annual operating budget funds professional development programs for faculty and staff including funding for substitute teachers' compensation to allow teachers to attend classes and/or seminars.
 * 5) Establish a committee appointed by the pastors and Principal to identify the root causes of the high turnover of staff at SFA. This committee will then recommend mathods of mitigating such causes to the pastors and Principal.
 * 6) The Principal with input from teachers and feedback from parents, will analyze and determine the effective student-teacher ratio per class that promotes optimum learning and instruction while considering affordability, competitiveness, and reasonableness of tuition rates
 * 7) The Principal with input from teachers and feedback from parents, will identify and evaluate non-academic related school activities to determine their relevance, impact on students' school life experiences, and impact on teachers' need for adequate instructional time to teach required curriculum.