This page has a more robust search interface, designed to allow Florida Charter School operators to search all of the teachers in a district and to identify and recruit excellent effective teachers to work at charter schools. One of the greatest competitive advantages Florida charter schools have is that, with a few rare exceptions, they are not constrained in hiring teachers by collective bargaining agreements. After the first few years of teaching, years of experience have minimal impact on how good a teacher is, yet that is how most teachers are paid, even those in Charter schools. Charters need to identify 3-10 year teachers in the regular public schools that are demonstrably the best teachers, and pay them what they are worth based on student results to come teach in your charter. And don’t forget to take care of the best teachers you already have: many teachers leave the profession within their first five years. Do what it takes to encourage your best teachers to stay, and to encourage those not performing as well to move along. If you operate a charter school, you may request a free search login with the “Request a login” button below.
This search lets you search an entire district, or a single school, for the teachers in the statewide top 10, 20 and 30 percent in mathematics or English/Language Arts/Reading. The results show each teacher’s years of experience, school and address, can be sorted by any column, and can be downloaded as a spreadsheet to help you start recruiting.
Charters, request a login or enter your email address and password to start searching!
A few caveats about the database. Years of experience are as reported by districts, and some districts report all years of teaching experience, but others only report years in district, so this number is not always going to be an accurate reflection. Also, teacher addresses are not always updated, so that information is a good starting point but will probably need to be verified. And, as explained on the Home page, some teachers who would otherwise qualify were left out of the database by the DOE because of various claimed statutory exemptions. Also, only teachers who taught an evaluated subject in 2017-18 are included in the database.
While this database only identifies the high performing teachers, if you are a charter operator, we can help you identify your lowest performing teachers that you may need to replace to see improved student results.