Playlist 1 - Human Capital Management Systems: Strategic Design of HCMS
What this playlist is:
This playlist supports planning in the design of a strategic human capital management system (HCMS) for EED grant projects that focus on multiple aspects of educator effectiveness.
An HCMS is how an education organization (such as a school district, university, or education service agency) makes and implements human capital decisions. These include recruitment strategies such as attraction, selection, hiring, and placement, as well as retention strategies such as induction, professional learning, career ladder, leadership roles, compensation, and organizational climate. Further, organizations may intentionally design the jobs associated with educator positions.
Who should use this playlist?
All EED grant programs interface directly or indirectly with an HCMS, whether in their home organization or with their partners’ organization(s). Project directors, operational managers, and strategic leaders in grantees’ home and partnership organizations should use this playlist to develop and design their strategic HCMS.
In the playlist, we provide recommendations for how to integrate these resources into HCMS Alignment Team Meetings. The HCMS Alignment team works across departments, divisions, and organizations.
- Districts: The team should include representation from human resources, evaluation and accountability, research and evaluation, information technology departments, and teacher and/or principal union leaders.
- Universities, non-profit, or education service agencies: Your HCMS Alignment Team will be a combination of members from your organization and your partner district(s). If you are a university assessing your own HCMS, then members from your own organization are necessary, including the relevant administrators and departments.
Specific EED grant programs might apply an HCMS strategic design in the following ways:
TSL Grantees
Use this playlist to design and plan a school district’s HCMS so that strategic recruitment and retention practices are aligned to one another, and the educator evaluation system supports HCMS decision-making, including the design of jobs and roles, such as career ladder positions.
If you are implementing a performance-based compensation system (PBCS) only, use this playlist to align your PBCS to an HCMS. If you are designing an HCMS and PBCS, this playlist supports the integration of both.
SEED and TQP Grantees
Use this playlist with the school districts you collaborate with to understand how your key grant strategies integrate into the district’s HCMS. If the district does not have a formalized HCMS, use this playlist as a starting point to begin strategic discussions about how your grant strategies fit within their human capital decision making and strategic planning.
For grant strategies within your own institution, such as a university prep program, use this playlist to design an HCMS within your university department or division. This playlist also includes the design of jobs and roles in an HCMS, such as mentors, coaches, and other educator leadership roles.
AHCA and AHC-NA Grantees
Use this playlist to understand how your grant strategies focused on professional development fit within an HCMS. For example, you might engage district administration on how professional learning fits within human capital decision making at the district. This playlist also includes the design of jobs and roles in an HCMS, such as mentors, coaches, and other educator leadership roles.
Entry Point 1: Design/Refine a HCMS
- Strengthening the Educator Workforce Through Human Resource Alignment
- Horizontal and Vertical Alignment Assessment
- Human Capital Data Use: Building a System that Informs Strategic Human Capital Management
- Redesigning for a Strategic Approach to Human Capital Management Spotlight: San Antonio Independent School District