Click THIS link to access Taleo to access your onboarding paperwork.

The Office of Talent will provide you with information as to when your processing session will be.  The Office of Talent can be contacted through this link!

The Office of Talent will provide you with specific documentation needs prior to your processing session. Here is a link to the required hiring documents!

Processing is the step-by-step system you will go through at SDPs Central Office to fulfill all documentation requirements in order to begin working. New Hire Orientation is a program that allows the District to ensure that new hires are thoroughly prepared to start their journey as an SDP teacher or counselor.

The Office of Talent often hosts “Teacher Meet and Greets.” You can find dates and times on their Facebook page!

Orientation is a program that allows the District to ensure that new teacher hires are thoroughly prepared for the first day of teaching. Orientation is held for five-days in August with consolidated Saturday orientations held September – January for teachers hired later in the year. The five-day August orientation program focuses on the most essential information that newly hired teachers need for the first month of school. For more information, click here!

Before New Hire Orientation or reporting to your school, be sure to go to your processing session. It is also helpful to have obtained access to District email. The Office of Teaching & Learning will be in touch with specific needs leading up to orientation. For more generalized NHO information, click here!

Before showing up to your school, be sure to reach out to your principal, as school hours vary in the summer.

Salary information can be found in the SDP website, as well as in the PFT Contract. Click the respective link for more information!

The Philadelphia Federation of Teachers Health and Welfare Fund was established to provide members and their qualified beneficiaries with collectively bargained benefits, including prescription, dental, vision, long term disability, professional development and retirement counseling. Health and Welfare Benefits are effective upon Five (5) months of service. Click here, to find out more information about your benefits.

Click here to learn in detail about your earnings and deductions found on your biweekly pay check.

Yes! Here is a list you can use to help navigate the SDP. Scroll down a bit to the bottom of the page to find departments, emails, and phone numbers!

The first time you log into your District email, you’ll need to contact the Help Desk. Do that by calling 215-400-5555. For more information, visit the Help Desk online, here!  (As a reminder, it is very helpful to have email access prior to showing up to New Hire Orientation.)

You can contact your principal through email, if you haven’t already heard from them. Here is a list of SDP schools by grade level. Clicking on your school’s name will take you to the school’s website, where you can find your principal’s email.

The School District is the cornerstone of public education in Philadelphia. The 130,000 students entrusted to The School District of Philadelphia arrive at our schools every day with an extraordinary range of needs. Click here to find information about your school!

Consulting Teachers provide job-embedded support by creating student-centered goals paired with teacher-centered action steps focusing on areas of growth within the Danielson Framework for Teaching. If you are hired before January 10th, you will hear from your Consulting Teacher via email within 2-3 weeks. If you are hired after January 10th, you will receive information via email about participating in our Mentoring program, but you will not be assigned to a Consulting Teacher until the following school year. For more information about the Office of Teaching and Learning’s coaching program, click here.

PFT members include teachers, librarians, school nurses, counselors, psychologists and social workers, secretaries, paraprofessionals, classroom assistants, non-teaching assistants, supportive services assistants, Head Start/Comprehensive Early Learning Center and Bright Futures teachers and staff, food service managers and professional and technical employees. For more information, click here!