The Skillful Leader: Confronting Mediocre Teaching » (1st Edition)

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.

Superintendent, Boston Public Schools - Thomas Payzant

"Provides policymakers, superintendents, principals, teachers, and others with a first-rate comprehensive guide to selecting, developing, supervising, and evaluating teachers to make sure that all students have quality instruction."

Chapter 1 - Introduction
Chapter 2 - Confronting Institutional Mediocrity
Chapter 3 - Profiles of Mediocrity
Chapter 4 - Selecting Data Sources
Chapter 5 - Describing Strengths and Problems
Chapter 6 - Designing an Improvement Plan
Chapter 7 - Model Contract Language
Chapter 8 - A Principal Confronts Mediocre Teaching
Chapter 9 - Detecting and Preventing Mediocrity in New Teachers
Chapter 10 - Evaluation in the Early 2000s
Epilogue - Voices of the Students
Appendix A - The 3C's Supervisor's Survey on Competence, Conviction, and Control
Appendix B - Unpromising Institutional Practices Survey
Appendix C - Grading Your Evaluation Procedures
Appendix D - Grading Your Evaluation Procedures (Annotated Version)
Appendix E - Improvement Plan Worksheet
Appendix F - Model Final Summary Evaluation Report Form
Appendix G - Performance Roles of Teacher and Related Competencies