"Tell me how you used your sense of humor to defuse a difficult situation or teach an important lesson." Queries of this sort can be used in an interview to increase the likelihood of hiring high-quality teachers and administrators. Spending time and effort to ensure only people-centered educators are hired who, in addition to possessing significant knowledge and skills, have the attitudes to be effective with students is probably the single most important thing to raise educational performance. Experience suggests few teachers fail because of lack of knowledge of their subject or inadequate teaching skills (classroom management being the most common exception). Most teachers who do not succeed fail because they do not have the right dispositions. When a teacher is hired who turns out to be a "dispositional misfit," time gets gobbled up, stress levels increase and we worry about the educational and legal ramifications of the teacher's poor performance. It is difficult, if not impossible, to change an adult's disposition. This article presents a strategy for a 20-minute interview that can provide insight into an applicant's dispositions--a personal characteristic difficult to quickly assess yet possibly the most important factor in long-term success.