My wife had the exact same situation. What helped her was walking into the schools with a resume in hand as well as a little unique item/card to be remembered with. What my wife ultimately had to do was get certified in special ed. That's how she was hired to get through this first year of teaching. Today was her first day. In her experience with NISD, if you're still a probationary teacher, it was tough, unless you went to the middle school level to teach math or science. Has she taught fulltime before? One school wanted to hire my wife, but then HR pulled it as they didn't want to deal with the probationary teachers regarding monitoring and training for the first year it seemed. If she's not already teaching, have her try another district, then moving her way "up" to her goal or ideal school. That's what's working for us.