Based on The Skillful Teacher framework, this book is targeted to evaluators and supervisors who want a field-tested tool kit of strategies to improve, rather than remove, underperforming teachers. The text includes valuable legal notes and a model contract, case studies, assessment tools, and personal accounts of leaders in action.

The Skillful Leader: Confronting Mediocre Teaching

Education & Teaching

Alexander D. Platt

Caroline E. Tripp

Wayne R. Ogden

Robert G. Fraser

Schools & Teaching

Research for Better Teaching

NEW TITLE: The Skillful Leader II: Confronting Conditions That Undermine Learning has been reissued under the title Transforming Ineffective Teams: Maximizing Collaboration's Impact on Learning ISBN: 978-1886822603 to better reflect the content of the book. This is a book for leaders who have advanced beyond basic teacher improvement strategies and want to tackle some of the hidden, stubborn blockers that are limiting what they can accomplish in schools. The Skillful Leader II places a major emphasis on finding and improving groups and school communities that are not functioning together effectively to help their students.

The Skillful Leader II: Confronting Conditions That Undermine Learning

James R. Warnock

Rachel E. Curtis

Ready About Press

New edition! From the lead authors of The Skillful Leader series, this work serves as a how-to handbook that offers dozens of illustrations, new cases, and sample documents plus legal advice to help you confront ineffective instruction. It is a cover-to-cover guide for solving thorny teacher performance problems. Highlights include how to: Use strategies for early intervention, support, and remediation Write a negative evaluation Escalate communication about teacher performance issues Craft high-leverage improvement plans Use student performance measures responsibly A must for administrators and teacher leaders.

Strengthening Teacher Evaluation: Taking Action to Improve Ineffective Teaching, Second Edition

From the lead authors of The Skillful Leader series, this work, also known as The Skillful Leader III, serves as a how-to handbook to accompany the best selling The Skillful Leader: Confronting Mediocre Teaching, with over 55,000 in circulation. Like its predecessor, the book offers dozens of illustrations, new cases, and sample documents plus legal advice to help you confront ineffective instruction. It is a cover-to-cover guide for solving thorny teacher performance problems. Highlights include how to: - Use strategies for early intervention, support, and remediation - Write a negative evaluation - Escalate communication about teacher performance issues - Craft high-leverage improvement plans - Use student performance measures responsibly A must for administrators and teacher leaders.

Strengthening Teacher Evaluation: Taking Action to Improve Ineffective Instruction - The Skillful Leader III

The Skillful Leader II: Confronting Conditions That Undermine Learning ISBN: 978-1886822115 has been reissued under the title Transforming Ineffective Teams: Maximizing Collaboration's Impact on Learning to better reflect the content of the book. This important book in The Skillful Leader series arms administrators and teacher leaders with step-by-step strategies to confront and raise the performance of teams and individuals who undermine student learning. The text includes methods of collecting data, strategies for intervention, and tips for hiring and training. Individual and community profiles, together with legal notes, provide practical tools for busy leaders.

Transforming Ineffective Teams: Maximizing Collaboration's Impact on Learning: The Skillful Leader II