Moving to Dallas area and need help!

[MaElFe]

BTW, anyone know of other schools/districts (private or public) that may be looking for an experienced math teacher? I have applied with HEB, Keller, Carroll, Birdville, and GCISD. I thought that Bell and Trinity both look like great schools, but there seems to be very little faculty turnover. Yes, it does seem that I may need an "in"...

[loves2read]

you have hit the nail on the head--very little faculty turnover at Bell or Trinity--HEB is really good district and teachers know that--it is not perfect and there are issues about the continuous improvement teaching formula that teachers are supposed to be incorporating--but they have decent support, good parental involvement comparitively, and students who do want to learn for the most part...taught there for 7 years before I retired and frankly it is one of the best districts overall in Tarrant/Dallas county...they get good results...
if you are a math teacher then you stand better chance than most of getting hired...
check out the Region 11 TEA website for Tarrant co and Region 10 (I think) which is Dallas county--Region 11 has job board for open positions in some schools--check when the Job Fairs are--some start in March--
even though the web sites say not to send resumes to principals--ignore that--send your resume to principals for schools you are interested in--principals superseed the personnel office and if you do the on-line interview and don't hit the mark by whatever criteria they use--you won't get sent to interviews--
frankly I would walk my resume/cover letter into any middle and high school I was interested in teaching at--what can they do--not hire you...
better to be bold than to be passed over...

[loves2read]

You might also check out private schools in Tarrant county--like Nolan Catholic and All Saints or Country Day in FTW
CHECK OUT THESE LINKS
http://spsweb.lisd.net/JobBoard/main...searchTileView[1].jobTitleLink=31cee07a-5461-48ba-987b-66b207b444dd&jato.pageSession=

http://spsweb.lisd.net/JobBoard/main...searchTileView[4].jobTitleLink=0d64d496-2be8-475b-8b1c-dd81ea286d73&jato.pageSession=

While having so much experience would seem to make you the best candidate for any open math slot--the fact that you have so much experience works against you because principals have salary pools now--and have to hire new teachers whose salaries fit into the salary pool--it might be that your exp actually works against you because you cost more than a teacher with 0 or 3 or 5 yrs exp...having more exp is really more about diminishing ROI than quality of teaching experience...hope you find a job--and frankly in HEB the math dept sucks...it needs better teachers more than any other area IMO and from what I hear from parents who have kids in middle and high school--my kids had a math teacher ALL THE WAY from middle school through high school--and my daughter who teaches elementary school (4th grade science in G/T elementary in FL) says that she did not "get" math until she was in college...
so HEB could use some good math teachers...