This paper reports on a 2023-24 school recruitment effort for participation in a validation study of a series of rubrics to assess school stakeholders engagement with cultural responsiveness. The design of the rubrics features a triangulation of the perspectives of school leaders, teachers, students, and parents; and consequently stakeholder representation was a key requirement of recruitment. The research team sought a diverse national non-probability sample of 60 schools to pilot the rubrics. During a year-long recruiting effort, we tried eleven different recruitment strategies, including emails to a curated list of education professionals, advertisements in national organization newsletters, outreach to participants in an earlier small pilot, presentations to the project team’s university-affiliated education practitioners, emails to graduates of the university’s educational leadership program, and personal contacts. Three of the strategies yielded all of the resulting sample, with most contacts coming from a small set of recruits within these three strategies. The lessons from this experience contribute to other researchers seeking to recruit practitioners in the post-COVID era.