Category: Operational Vitality

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.

As choice expands, Catholic schools and systems should be ready to respond with gusto.