Case Study: IDEA Public Schools achieves faster leadership hires and a stronger talent pipeline with LinkedIn Talent Solutions

IDEA Public Schools - Customer Case Study

IDEA Public Schools, a 44-school Texas charter network serving over 25,000 students, was facing a severe talent challenge as it scaled: competition for high-quality instructional leaders and teachers is fierce, and the passive candidate pool in education is limited. Don Gladish, Director of Leader Recruitment, needed a way to find and pipeline exceptional principals and other leaders quickly and affordably to support rapid growth and maintain school performance.

By using LinkedIn Talent Solutions to build candidate pools, proactively pipeline future leaders, and train colleagues on Recruiter tools, Don filled a mid‑year principal vacancy in about a month and significantly raised applicant quality across roles. The nonprofit discount made the tools affordable, allowing IDEA to redirect savings into students while creating a repeatable recruitment approach that shortened time‑to‑fill, improved hire quality, and scaled across the organization.

IDEA Public Schools

Don Gladish

Director of Leader Recruitment