Everett Patrick

• Oversaw staffing for sixteen schools in Zone 5 providing direction on all human resource operations including selection, evaluation, certification, and assignment of school personnel for numerous positions
• Led efforts to fill a variety of school-based positions with a goal of achieving fully staffed teams resulting in over 94% of positions across Zone 5 being filled by the beginning of the 2023-2024 academic year .
• Identified ways to reduce turnover through improved hiring practices.
• Organized onboarding processes for new hires, including orientation sessions and paperwork completion through a collaborative process.
• Analyzed employee data to identify trends and potential areas of improvement.
• Participated in Fulton County Instructional Rounds utilized to supervise principals during school observations to monitor teacher efficacy and alignment between curriculum, instruction, and assessments.
• Participated in school based instructional rounds monthly at 16 schools to discuss data, observe classrooms/professional learning communities, calibrate observations, determine trends in the building and calendar next action steps.
• Assist Zone Superintendent with identifying and interviewing principal and assistant principal candidates.
• Attend Zone 5 Principal Meetings to establish strong relationships with principals in order to provide effective guidance and coach leaders through a variety of human resources situations.

• Design, train and evaluate the instructional coaches at both the elementary and secondary level to increase student achievement at each site.
• Developed and presented new ideas and conceptualized new approaches and solutions to over 14,000 educators through the Professional Development Institute. (2020-2021)
• Created the district's comprehensive strategic plan for professional development, and contributed to the development of the effective schools framework as part of the district strategic planning team.
• Oversaw $1M professional learning budget and managed the fiscal distribution of funds to implement research-based programming that fosters continuous improvement, innovation and collaborative practice.
• Oversaw the teacher certification program which was designed to meet the critical teaching needs of DeKalb County.

Reported directly to the Superintendent, led the district's Compensation Study, Recruitment functions, and Employee Information Services. Achieved a vacancy rate under 1% in the district workforce and increasing teacher retention rates by 2%.

• Collaboratively developed a Human Resource Management Dashboard to monitor and analyze the hiring process of candidates.
• Collaborated in the redesign of the performance management system for evaluating principals and school-based leaders.
• Established a Superintendent Advisory council to gather input for HR practices, principal and district leadership hiring practices.
• Responsible for fiscal management of funds allocated to the department/work units in the Division of Human Resources (over $20,000,000).
• Provided executive leadership in formulating Board policies by providing the necessary data and information and delivering or facilitating the delivery/transmission of such data and information to the appropriate audience.

• Develops and ensures daily implementation of departmental, divisional, and district-wide procedures on issues relative to hiring and applicant screening processes to ensure a standard operation process; provides leadership for recruitment and retention programs for the school system.
• Organized career fairs, workshops, and other events to promote employment opportunities within the company. Over 1,000 participants attended the various career fairs (2016-2017).
• Researched best practices related to recruitment processes in order to stay up-to-date on industry standards. Achieved a fill rate of 98% (2017).
• Co-facilitated and executed annual summer leadership conference for over 500 school and district leaders. Attendee feedback resulted in 95% satisfaction rate.

• Supervises departmental staff and the hiring and staffing of certified and classified employees; stays current with federal and state laws relative to fair hiring practices.
• Participated in regional staff meetings as directed by the regional superintedent.
• Supported new teachers through on-site school visits resulting in a 84% retention rate in middle and high schools.
• Assisted with the development of a partnership between DeKalb County Schools and the University of Georgia Math and Science Education department.
• Assisted with the development of the Attendance Protocol for the DeKalb County School District.

• Monitored academic progress of students (1,900) which resulted in a decrease in overall failure rates school wide.
• Awarded Governor's Cup, largest numerical improvement in SAT Scores in the State of Georgia (Druid Hills HS, 2006)
• Awarded Platinum Award from the Governor's Office of Student Achievement (Druid Hills HS, 2007).
• Awarded High Schools that Work Gold Achievement Award, Greatest Gains Governor's Office of Student Achievement (Druid Hills HS)
• Awarded Georgia School of Excellence in Student Achievement (Druid Hills HS)
• Ranked in Newsweek's Best High Schools Top 1300 for four consecutive years (Druid Hills HS)
• Met AYP in both ELA and Math for the first time in five years (MLK HS)
• Increased the percentage of students scoring 3 or better on AP exams from 7% to 15% (MLK HS, 2009-2013).
• Maintained a staff retention rate of over 93% by fostering a supportive school culture focused on positive relationships (MLK HS).
• Oversaw school implementation of the Teacher Keys Effectiveness System (TKES) as a growth model for teachers to work towards meaningful goals.
• Designed an internal leadership development program and led mentoring for staff members interested in expanding their leadership capacity, many of whom have grown into their own school-based administrative roles.

• Built master schedules that maximized funding and adhered to state standards using the AS400 software.