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Situational questions test reasoning under hypothetical pressure. Interviewers want to see the constraints you name, the trade-offs you choose, and the assumptions you flag.

Situational · Resource Constraint

You're a principal. The district has cut your building budget and you must submit a staffing plan in three weeks that eliminates the equivalent of two positions. Your reading interventionist is on a year-to-year contract, your arts program is one full-time teacher, and class sizes are already at the contract cap. How do you build the plan?

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I'd start from a protection list, not a cut list: whatever most directly serves instruction for the highest-need students survives longest.…

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