How is FCPS teacher/staff shortage?

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Anonymous wrote:I think stipends should happen for SPED and Gen Ed teachers. SPED teachers with more than 5 IEPS should get a stipend per extra kid. Classroom teachers should get a stipend per kid when class size goes above 25.

That would be quite nice, but that would mean essentially all teachers would receive that stipend.

When I was a special education teacher, I had 50-60 IEPs (10-12 per class). Almost all of those had 3-5 goals for which I was responsible (reading comprehension, basic reading, written expression, organization, and/or behavior), so I was responsible for tracking between 120-300`goals.

I switched to general education several years ago. I now have between 135-150 students each year. It is rare to have classes smaller than 25, and most classes have 28-32 students. As a general education teacher, I usually have 5-8 students with IEPs (usually for speech, writing, organization, and/or behavior) on my roster, another 10-12 who are on my coteacher's roster, and at least a dozen 504 plans.

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LOL. I thought the same thing. There is no way that she had 50 IEPs.

NP. Why don’t you believe this? If she was a high school teacher and team taught 5 different classes 50+ is easily possible. I’m a general ed teacher, I didn’t have any team taught classes and I had over 20 students in my classes this year with IEPs or 504s. It could have been closer to 30.

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correct but I think people are thinking caseloads which would not happen.

Our school's special education teachers have caseloads closer to 10, but that is really not that relevant for anything other than re-evals because the case managers are responsible to code very few goals unless the case manager happens to be a math or English teacher.

English/reading teachers code reading comprehension, basic reading, and written expression goals. Math teachers code math goals. Personal development teachers code behavior goals for any students who take personal development. The speech clinician codes all speech goals.

Case managers are technically responsible for checking in with all teachers of students on their caseload, but that doesn't always happen.

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Anonymous wrote:Parents should be very concerned. Just counted vacancies for teachers. Did not include SPED instructional assistants or staff not working directly with kids. 604 teaching positions open. Some may not be listed so this number could be higher. 😫

Okay, I'm a parent and I'm concerned. I'll bite my nails until they bleed this summer. This fall you can point and laugh and say I told you so.

Then what?

Check your school’s vacancies- they aren’t evenly spread

Do you think FCPS isn't listing all the vacancies accurately. I know someone who says they don't want to put up too many vacancies up at once. This seems weird though since they need to fill these vacancies.

My school has one position listing for a teacher grades 4-6. There are 6 unfilled positions 4-6. One listing, 6 vacancies.

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Anonymous wrote:Lots of turnover at a Title I school in Falls Church. 22 vacancies and counting. Lots of turnover within the administration in the past few years or so.

Which school is that?!

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Anonymous wrote:Lots of turnover at a Title I school in Falls Church. 22 vacancies and counting. Lots of turnover within the administration in the past few years or so.

Which school is that?!

SHES in the JHS pyramid

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Anonymous wrote:Parents should be very concerned. Just counted vacancies for teachers. Did not include SPED instructional assistants or staff not working directly with kids. 604 teaching positions open. Some may not be listed so this number could be higher. 😫

Okay, I'm a parent and I'm concerned. I'll bite my nails until they bleed this summer. This fall you can point and laugh and say I told you so.

Then what?

Check your school’s vacancies- they aren’t evenly spread

Do you think FCPS isn't listing all the vacancies accurately. I know someone who says they don't want to put up too many vacancies up at once. This seems weird though since they need to fill these vacancies.

My school has one position listing for a teacher grades 4-6. There are 6 unfilled positions 4-6. One listing, 6 vacancies.

So it could be closer to 700 teaching vacancies

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Guess we all just have to hope our kids don’t have long terms subs next year.

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Anonymous wrote:Guess we all just have to hope our kids don’t have long terms subs next year.

So far looking ok at my kid’s school. Long term subs suck though - we have had several over the years due to teacher pregnancies. Fingers crossed for no long term subs!

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Anonymous wrote:Guess we all just have to hope our kids don’t have long terms subs next year.

We couldn't even find long term subs. We had a mix of daily subs until Christmas, one long term sub until March and then daily subs until the end of the year.

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Anonymous wrote:Guess we all just have to hope our kids don’t have long terms subs next year.

We couldn't even find long term subs. We had a mix of daily subs until Christmas, one long term sub until March and then daily subs until the end of the year.

Are you at a bad school?

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Anonymous wrote:Guess we all just have to hope our kids don’t have long terms subs next year.

We couldn't even find long term subs. We had a mix of daily subs until Christmas, one long term sub until March and then daily subs until the end of the year.

Are you at a bad school?

No. There is a teacher shortage. All schools are affected!

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It’s beginning of summer but our principal emailed vacancies for the school with his last day of school email send off.

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DCUM for past 2 years-teachers are evil, lazy, etc
DCUM now- why are all these teachers quitting?

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Anonymous wrote:It’s beginning of summer but our principal emailed vacancies for the school with his last day of school email send off.

Ours did too. They had 2 vacancies at the end of school year. Now there are 6 listed. Teachers had till June 15 to resign.

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This school is recruiting on its web page. I've never seen that before.

https://eagleviewes.fcps.edu/features/why-work-eagle-view

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Our school has no listing for teachers. This does not seem to be an evenly distributed problem