Consultant
Former K-12 Director of Talent, helping schools win great teachers and keep the ones they already have.
David Makita
Services
Hiring System Overhaul
From $6,500 for the plan. It rises with how many roles you rework, and how far I stay in through implementation.
Rebuild how you hire before the season starts, from sourcing to signed offer.
Staff Feedback & Retention Cycle
From $4,500 for one cycle. It rises with the size of your staff, and whether you run it once or through the year.
Hear what your staff won't put in a survey, while there's still time to act.
Custom Talent Tools
Discovery is $2,500, fixed. The build is quoted from it, and most land between $8,000 and $20,000.
The hiring tool your school needs, specified before it's priced.
Fractional Director of Talent
From $3,000 a month, three-month minimum. It rises with the number of schools, and with how much of the work I carry rather than advise on.
Senior talent leadership for a school or small network, without the full-time hire.
$150/hour. Most engagements run $1,500–$2,400; fractional retainers from $1,500/month.
About David Makita
I build the systems schools use to hire and keep good people. As Director of Talent for a three-school charter network I built its applicant tracking system from nothing, designing position-specific hiring workflows, a job description bank, and the screening criteria underneath them, while running recruitment across every role from teacher to principal. Since then I have partnered with more than 30 Memphis charter schools, roughly half the city's charter enrollment, sourcing and screening on their behalf.
Before that I spent a decade in schools, as a teacher and assistant principal at KIPP Delta and then dean of students in Memphis. I have sat in the seat that has to make the hire, which is why the systems I build assume the person running them also has a school to lead.
Today I co-found School Blueprint and build the software behind it: candidate pipeline triage, structured interview scorecards, AI resume scoring against job descriptions, staff survey instruments, and this marketplace. The same components go into what I build for schools, which is why a custom tool takes weeks rather than quarters. I work with schools nationwide remotely, and on-site across Massachusetts.
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