Q&A With Springbranch ISD Employees

Much like any other school setting or administrative school setting.

Tiresome. Frustrating. Intense.

Mine were lengthy. At least one hour.

Just the same as at any other interview. Use your interviewing skills.

All interviews are 'da bomb.' I have never been interviewed for a professional position that did require and imposing and intense interview.

Professional attire.

Principal, vice-principal, department head, and the entire department. I interviewed three different times. And it took three or four months to hear back. That was way too long.

No idea. My interview was "innovative" with potential teachers allowed to ask me questions. It was the most intense interview I have ever had.

Both flexible and not flexible. I was expected to meet with my classes. I was able to negotiate a deal with my building principal about coming in late and staying later for afterschool activities. However, this proved to be a problem when more and more responsibilites were dumped on me in the after school activities. I wanted out of the arrangement for two years, but felt I couldn't ask to opt out since I had agreed to it initially. I retired instead.

You can never really work at home in education. You must be present in the classroom. Although, you do end up working from home, as teaching is a job that never ends.

Not to my knowledge as a former teacher do they drug test. But I was hired 13 years ago. I know they did a background check. Or at least, I assume they did.

If you mean for teachers, you are told you will get a student teacher, and then you are given no feed back or help to train some of them which are clearly not ready to take on a classroom. I had a student teacher who was assigned two schools. She did a middle school first, then moved to my high school. By then, she thought she knew it all, but she didn't. I did not even know who to contact to tell about how she was not working out. Also, principals just randomly assigned them. No input from teachers.

They are great with human resource issues. I never had any issue with HR.

Too inovative. Overly inovative. They need to slow down their interest in online schooling and focus on the classroom. Everything does not need to be on line. Students should not be allowed to use cell phones between classes. And lap tops in the classroom are useless. They are cheap and don't work half the time. Libraries and computer labs are what should be utilized.

Time off

Dr. Muri is leading us in the right direction. I feel confident that we will help our students become successful members of society.