Nimble Hiring, PBC

Teacher shortages are widespread on a national level, with an estimated 200,000 positions either vacant or staffed by underqualified individuals. Schools with higher vacancy rates have worse working conditions, smaller salaries, fewer early career teachers, and are more likely to have lower levels of student achievement. In prior university-based studies, researchers developed a method to gather real-time reports of teacher shortages via web scraping of district job postings. While research ...

In previous research and development, the developer created a website, Nimble, for K12 administrators to manage the process of recruiting, interviewing, and hiring educators. In this Phase I project, the research team will develop a new prototype with a machine learning engine that predicts the strongest candidates for specific schools to interview, and a user-friendly dashboard for administrators to manage all aspects of the application and hiring process.