Even if your district has adequate space, survey all buildings to see where and how, in a pinch, classrooms could be added at a later date. CSR attracts teachers. Obviously, teachers love smaller classes. Districts like Long Beach and Mammoth used the promise of CSR to sell themselves to teachers and, as a result, the demand was greater than the supply. Both districts feel they greatly enhanced their staffs by hiring skilled and experienced teachers.
Money often follows results.
Schools that achieve CSR by any means possible have something to sell to the public when the inevitable bond ends up on the ballot. Be media savvy. If it s something good, we can t get them to come out, even if we buy ads in the paper. It s a continuing frustration. One strategy widely used in dealing with the press is going to the press before it comes to you, which the Long Beach district did to great effect when it held a job fair to recruit new teachers.