The Heart of It All Training Resources
Recruiting & Retaining Educators for Ohio Students
Use these resources to bolster your learning from our Winter 2025 trainings, and apply what you’ve learned in your educational organization.
Staff Voices Are the Heart of It All: Use Stay Interviews to Listen for Recruitment and Retention
In the face of growing challenges in educator recruitment and retention, learn how to tap into the voices of your workforce to understand what matters most. This content explores the importance of stay interviews as a proactive tool to attract and retain talent by identifying key engagement drivers. Framing feedback through a Total Rewards Model, gain actionable insights into addressing educators’ needs across categories such as compensation, benefits, career opportunities, and workplace culture.
Recruiting the Future: Engaging Millennials and Gen Z
Discover ways to update your recruitment strategies to appeal to the dynamic and diverse workforce of Millennials and Gen Z. This content will help you to delve into the latest trends and best practices, and provide you with some innovative techniques to attract top talent in education.
Level Up Your Talent Acquisition: Assessing Current Practices
What’s your talent acquisition situation? Stop guessing and gain new awareness of your organization’s current state by pinpointing strengths and weaknesses. This spreadsheet will set the stage for you to plan your learning and action steps to move ahead.
Building a Strong Talent Foundation: Essential Recruitment Strategies
This content is for beginning learners.
Introducing HR professionals and talent managers to the fundamentals of recruitment, learn the basics of crafting compelling job postings and writing effective job descriptions. Explore strategies for leveraging various recruitment channels. Additionally, gain insights into creating a positive candidate experience.
Boosting Your Recruitment Game: Finding Teacher Talent
This content is for advanced learners.
Learn how to strategically leverage data from educator preparation programs (EPPs) to understand the pipeline of potential recruits. Consider how to build new partnerships with educator preparation programs to address talent needs through understanding the data available to support finding sources of new teacher candidates.
Compliance Corner: Your Guide to Legal and Ethical HR Practices
This content is for beginning learners.
This is an overview of the key federal and state laws that impact human capital management in education. Learn about compliance requirements, recent legislative changes, and best practices for ensuring legal and ethical HR practices when recruiting, hiring, and managing staff.
Elevating HR: A Strategic Approach to Driving Organizational Success
This content is for advanced learners.
Ready to develop an HR strategy? This content will equip you with the tools and insights to transform HR into a strategic partner. Explore how to align HR with the organization’s goals, leverage data to make informed decisions, and become more proactive in recruiting and retaining staff. Join us to learn practical tips to elevate your HR game and drive organizational success.
Educator Wellbeing: Creating a Culture of Care: Supporting Educators
This content provides an overview of comprehensive educator wellbeing. Explore resources that will help assess and create wellness plans and explore evidence-based practices in educator wellbeing. Better understand comprehensive educator wellbeing, assess wellness offerings, understand how to create a wellness plan, and learn about evidence-based practices in educator wellbeing.