Sumner County Schools

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Human Resources Contacts

Director of Human Resources - Craig Ott

• District employee initiatives, leadership development, strategy, staffing, compliance and training
• Grievances from principals, employees, and parents with issues involving staff
• Investigations, counseling, disciplinary actions including separations
• Board policy, procedure, and employee handbooks
• Employee compensation, job descriptions, departmental organizational charts

Administrative Assistant (Ext: 71207) - Jennifer Runion

• Requests for information from principals, employees, and public
• Schedule and coordinate meetings for HR Director and staff
• Handles Information Change Forms for address and name changes
• New employee badge requests

HR Supervisor of Compliance and Risk Management (Ext: 71029) - Catrina Curd

• Risk Management
• Worker’s compensation workplace injury reports
• Worker’s compensation liaison for employees and Key Risk
• OSHA reports
• Insurance Liabilities
• Supervisor over Leave Coordinator and Substitutes/Non-Faculty Specialist

HR Leave of Absence (FMLA) Coordinator (Ext: 71220) - Kelly Vigil

• Extended leave of absence for all employees
• Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA)
• Short term/long term disability claims
• Return to work documentation
• Non-FMLA leave of absences
• Educational extended leave
• Non-FMLA qualifying absences
• Sick leave bank administrator
• Paid parental leave

HR Specialist for Substitutes/Non-Faculty/Frontline (Ext: 71535) - Patricia Crandall

• All aspects of hiring both substitute teachers and non-faculty
• Management of Frontline
• New hire orientation for substitute teachers and non-faculty
• Ending of employments (voluntary/involuntary) for substitutes and non-faculty

HR Supervisor for Classified Staff (Ext: 71539) - Robyn Brewer

• All aspects of hiring/terminating classified staff including job openings, ending of employments, transfers, offers, and additional positions. (Does not include coaches, non-faculty, or nurses)
• Salary information/questions
• Years of experience information/questions
• ATS assistance for principals, employees, and potential employees
• Employee issues/grievances
• Discipline issues
• Unemployment Claims

HR Specialist for Classified Staff (Ext: 71538) - Syble McGee

• All aspects of hiring/transferring classified staff including new hires, rehires, transfers, offers, and additional positions
• Completes onboarding paperwork with each new hire/rehire
• Salary information/questions
• Years of experience information/questions
• ATS assistance for principals, employees, and potential employees

HR Coordinator for Background Checks (Ext: 71229) - Debbie Knowlton

• Completes fingerprinting for all new hires, rehires, and current employees
• Receives, reviews, and vets background check results
• Performs background check audits
• DCS and sex offender checks
• Private duty nurses

HR Technician for Classified Staff (Ext: 71005) - Brenda Ann Jenkins

• Verification of employment for all employees
• Background check assistance

Central Office Receptionist (Ext: 71200) - Robin Halliwell

• General information for Sumner County Schools
• Assistance reaching a specific individual
• Mail for all of central office

HR Supervisor for Certified Staff (Ext: 71208) - Marla Pike

• All aspects of hiring/terminating certified staff including job openings, ending of employments, transfers, offers, and additional positions. (Includes nurses)
• Teacher licensure information/questions
• Salary information/questions
• Experience verification
• Tenure information/questions
• Teacher discipline reporting
• ATS assistance for principals, employees, and potential employees
• Employee issues/grievances
• Discipline issues
• Public School Works

HR Specialist for Certified Staff (Ext: 71052) - Geneva Weatherford

• All aspects of hiring/transferring certified staff including new hires, rehires, transfers, offers, and additional positions
• Pre-screening of candidates for licensure/endorsement
• Experience verification forms
• Loan forgiveness form
• Salary information/questions
• Tenure information/questions
• ATS assistance for principals, employees, and potential employees

Position Control Specialist (Ext: 71082) - James "Adam" McMurtry

• Vets, prepares, and posts all jobs for Sumner County Schools
• Tracks and compiles data regarding positions
• Assistance for principals with posting positions

HR Specialist, Certified (Ext: 71427) - Anna "Faye" Schardt

• Completes onboarding paperwork with each new hire/rehire
• Experience verification forms
• Loan forgiveness forms

Recruiting and Training Coordinator (Ext: 71575) - OPEN

• Post certified job openings
• College EPP and Recruiting
• ATS Assistance
• Recruiting responsibilities: universities, job fairs, social media platforms

Issues that Human Resources does not handle:

• Benefits/Insurance (Medical, Dental, etc.)
• Questions about check amounts, withholdings, check stubs, whether or not a check was deposited, paycards, etc. should be directed towards payroll. (We can, however; tell you salary information.)

EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS FOR LICENSURE ADVANCEMENT

To advance from an initial license (practitioner) to the professional license, teachers and school service personnel must demonstrate three years of experience working in an appropriate pre-K-12 instructional setting. The experience no longer must include 10 months in a Tennessee public school.

Educators may submit experience not reflected in TNCompass, including experience outside of Tennessee, using the Experience Verification form. Additional guidance and the Experience Verification form is available here.

NEW OUT-OF-STATE PROFESSIONAL-LEVEL LICENSURE GUIDANCE

Applications for initial educator licensure, submitted on or after July 1, 2021, will be evaluated under the new licensure requirements (in accordance with the passage of Section 1 of Chapter 125 of the Public Acts of 2021, which amends TCA 49-5-108(c)).

Educators holding a professional-level license in a state other than Tennessee will receive a Tennessee Professional 6-Year license (professional teacher license, professional occupational teacher license, or professional school services personnel license), provided the professional license from another state is equivalent to Tennessee’s Professional license. The Professional 6-Year license is a full, professional-level license.

Additional information is available here.