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J Casas and Associates
www.jimmycasas.com
Jimmy Casas
Business Address: 118 Parkhurst Lane, Allen, TX 75013
Mailing Address: PO Box 308, Bettendorf, IA 52722
info@jcasasandassociates.com Phone: (563) 447-5776
1. What are your core beliefs about leading and managing adults? Give an example of how you use your
core beliefs to influence the thinking and behavior of others?
2. Describe an experience where you gave a consequence to a student. Tell us what you did to make
that student and his/her parent feel as though they were still a positive part of your school
3. Describe what it means to you to be a connected educator and share with us how you model this on a
daily basis.
4. What do you believe to be the purpose and/or function of teacher evaluation? Give us an example of
how you have held others for whom you are responsible accountable to your expectations.
5. How do you establish a caring environment in your classroom or current school? What have you done
in your current job to promote tolerance, acceptance, and diversity?
6. What strategies or programs have you implemented to help students who are failing classes, dropping
out of school, or who don’t feel connected to school?
7. Give us a specific example of how you helped build a “sense of community” in your current classroom
or school.
8. How do you respond to staff/parental concerns and complaints before and after a new initiative has
been implemented?
9. If you could make one change to the senior year of high school, what specific change would you make
to better prepare students for life after high school?
10. How do you view yourself as a disciplinarian?
11. Share a time when you advocated for a student/teacher/colleague & the reason why. What was the
outcome?
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12. Gossip and negativity are the silent killers for school cultures. Give us a specific example of how you
have addressed either issue in your current school. What was the end result? What did you learn from
this experience?
13. Share a professional goal that you once had and the process you went through to achieve that goal.
What did you learn about yourself from that experience?
14. If you were offered the position as (fill in the blank), what are three things you would to do in order to
best prepare for your new role?
15. What was the most difficult question that you have had to respond to today during this interview
process (ask Q towards the end of the interview)?
16. What frustrates you as a (fill in the blank)? What have you done to help alleviate this concern(s)?
17. In your opinion, what is the greatest challenge facing educators today in public education? What ideas
do you have for addressing this concern?
18. What gives your professional life purpose and meaning?
19. Upon what basis do you delegate responsibilities?
20. As a school leader, what do you believe to be the best uses of your time and why?
21. How would you take a strong stand on an issue without coming across as autocratic?
22. You have an important decision to make about a student who assaulted another student. How do you
go about making this decision, who do you involve, and what does the final outcome look like?
23. What are your thoughts on home visits? What do you see as a benefit? Challenges? What ideas do
you have to work around these challenges?
24. If I were to walk into your classroom, what are three things that you would want me to see that would
demonstrate a positive classroom environment.
25. As an educator, what is your most significant accomplishment in the last 10 years?