Category: Operational Vitality

The NSBECS offer a strong framework along with tools and resources for Catholic school leaders to improve their school.

Framing school choice as empowering parents should align all parents whether their students are in public or private schools.

The educator pipeline is a common term and metaphor for talent development and support in education. It encompasses the full range of the talent process from recruiting, interviewing and hiring to onboarding, supporting and retaining. A breakdown in this process, wherever it may occur, is often referred to as a “leak.”

Many schools are facing a new crisis in education—national teacher shortage coupled with historic numbers of open positions. Through strategic resourcing and innovative marketing initiatives, the Diocese of Des Moines pioneered a modern approach to the challenge of teacher recruitment.

We desperately need a way forward that can carry us all the way into a world in which every school matters, every school is held to high academic standards and every parent can choose between high-quality educational options—as a matter of course.