CSRA RESA hosts job fair for 12 local school districts

AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) – With an ongoing trainer scarcity occurring throughout the county, college districts within the CSRA are searching for the following set of leaders for the 2023-2024 college yr.

CSRA Regional Academic Companies Company hosted a college system job truthful on Saturday at Augusta Technical School. Twelve college districts attended taking a look at positions for each in and outdoors the classroom.

Latest knowledge from the Division of Training exhibits Georgia trainer shortages for the 2022-2023 college yr in topics resembling math, science, social research and English. Pre-Ok by twelfth grade are all impacted by the scarcity.

It’s not an in a single day repair however Saturday’s job truthful proved the eagerness for the occupation goes past any sort of scarcity.

“It’s one thing that I’ll have a ardour and a drive for doing,” Robert Bryant, who attended the job truthful, mentioned. “So it received’t simply be a job, it’ll be a profession.”

It’s a profession Bryant has thought of for years.

“I really feel like I’m a trainer,” he mentioned. “It’s not like I need a job as a trainer, however I’m the trainer naturally.”

Naturally, he discovered himself on the CSRA College System Job Truthful searching for his dream profession.

“There’s all the time been a necessity for academics, each college yr,” Christina Ethridge, Louisville Academy principal, mentioned.

It’s a necessity college districts from Richmond all the way in which all the way down to Emanuel County really feel proper now.

“We’re not searching for as many as we have now prior to now few years however you by no means know issues change,” Donna Bennett, Maxwell Elementary College principal, mentioned.

It doesn’t matter what adjustments, the eagerness for the job all the time stays the identical.

“This offers us that chance to actually join with individuals in the neighborhood about what educating and schooling is all about,” Ethridge mentioned.

For some, schooling means greater than a each day 9 to 5 job.

“My mom, she’s retired, as a trainer, and she or he nonetheless has college students that come as much as her and that’s form of one thing that I need to depart a legacy,” Bryant mentioned.

Taking part Faculties:

Burke County

Columbia County

Emanuel County

Glascock County

Jefferson County

Jenkins County

Lincoln County

McDuffie County

Richmond County

Taliaferro County

Warren County

Wilkes County

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