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

Alexander D. Platt; Caroline E. Tripp

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1886822573 ISBN 13: 9781886822573

Publisher: Ready About Press, 2013

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author:

Alexander D. Platt, Ed.D.
Alexander (Andy) Platt is a founding and senior consultant with Boston-based consulting firm Research for Better Teaching (RBT). In 2000, while he continued to be affiliated with RBT, he founded Ready About Consulting, dedicated to working with leaders of underperforming schools. He is the lead author of the first two books in the best-selling Skillful Leader series: Confronting Mediocre Teaching and Confronting Conditions That Undermine Learning. He specializes in coaching urban leaders on raising the quality of instruction through supervision and evaluation. Over his 35-year career, he has developed numerous long-term relationships with client districts and has taught courses to over 2,000 administrators in the United States, Europe, and Japan.

Caroline E. Tripp, Ed.D.

Caroline Tripp is also a senior consultant with Research for Better Teaching (RBT). A co-author of the first two books in the Skillful Leader series, she has spent more than 20 years training and supporting district and school-site leaders across the country. She specializes in long-term district development work that includes the design and implementation of supervision and evaluation systems for teachers and administrators, building effective leadership teams at all levels, training evaluators, and supporting the development of new administrators. She has presented nationally on a wide range of topics related to teacher quality and leadership development. Dr. Tripp served as the Director of Curriculum and Training for RBT's 10-year joint project on workplace excellence with the Montgomery County (MD) Public Schools. She was formerly a faculty member of the Boston Principal Fellows Program and Assistant Superintendent of the Shrewsbury, MA, Public Schools.

Review:

With our state adopting a new teacher evaluation system, this book could not have come out at a better time. Offering real-world case studies, Platt and Tripp provide principals with concrete strategies for confronting ineffective teaching. This book should be required reading at every principal training program in America. The authors continue to be the leaders in helping principals to improve classroom instruction. --Jeffrey C. Riley, Superintendent/Receiver, Lawrence Public Schools, MA

The repertoire of reflective questions and diagnostic tools . . . will surely serve as a timely, invaluable resource for any school administrator or teacher leader. --Lisa H. Garrett, Principal, Ponderosa High School, Shingle Springs, CA

. . . Helps leaders shift from the traditional compliance model for teacher evaluation to evaluating teachers in ways that enable them to grow their teaching skills through precise, systematic feedback and attention to practices that can increase student learning. ----Barbara Markle, Assistant Dean Office of K12 Outreach, College of Education Michigan State University

New teacher evaluation systems expect our leaders to be able to analyze data, diagnose needs, and skillfully communicate with teachers. These systems also invite teachers to be partners in assessment and to take more responsibility for their own growth. Much of this work is new and challenging for all parties. Strengthening Teacher Evaluation is a practical, just-in-time resource that gives us tools to calibrate what we do, build leader competence and commitment, and bridge old and new district evaluation practices. ----Michael Hanson, Superintendent, Fresno Unified School District, Fresno, CA

Andy Platt and Caroline Tripp are experienced supervisors and evaluators who have "bellied up to the bar" on the tough issues of ineffective teaching. Their primary commitment is to support and improve teaching and learning in every classroom. They are prime advocates for making Teacher Evaluation systems be non-judgmental engines of growth for everyone. But they are among the rare few who ALSO know how to make responses to ineffective teaching rigorous, helpful, fair, and humane...and when necessary decisive. -- --Jon Saphier, Founder & President, Research for Better Teaching, Inc.

New teacher evaluation systems expect our leaders to be able to analyze data, diagnose needs, and skillfully communicate with teachers. These systems also invite teachers to be partners in assessment and to take more responsibility for their own growth. Much of this work is new and challenging for all parties. Strengthening Teacher Evaluation is a practical, just-in-time resource that gives us tools to calibrate what we do, build leader competence and commitment, and bridge old and new district evaluation practices. ----Michael Hanson, Superintendent, Fresno Unified School District, Fresno, CA

Andy Platt and Caroline Tripp are experienced supervisors and evaluators who have "bellied up to the bar" on the tough issues of ineffective teaching. Their primary commitment is to support and improve teaching and learning in every classroom. They are prime advocates for making Teacher Evaluation systems be non-judgmental engines of growth for everyone. But they are among the rare few who ALSO know how to make responses to ineffective teaching rigorous, helpful, fair, and humane...and when necessary decisive. -- --Jon Saphier, Founder & President, Research for Better Teaching, Inc.

New teacher evaluation systems expect our leaders to be able to analyze data, diagnose needs, and skillfully communicate with teachers. These systems also invite teachers to be partners in assessment and to take more responsibility for their own growth. Much of this work is new and challenging for all parties. Strengthening Teacher Evaluation is a practical, just-in-time resource that gives us tools to calibrate what we do, build leader competence and commitment, and bridge old and new district evaluation practices. -- --Michael Hanson, Superintendent, Fresno Unified School District, Fresno, CA

Andy Platt and Caroline Tripp are experienced supervisors and evaluators who have "bellied up to the bar" on the tough issues of ineffective teaching. Their primary commitment is to support and improve teaching and learning in every classroom. They are prime advocates for making Teacher Evaluation systems be non-judgmental engines of growth for everyone. But they are among the rare few who ALSO know how to make responses to ineffective teaching rigorous, helpful, fair, and humane...and when necessary decisive. -- --Jon Saphier, Founder & President, Research for Better Teaching, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Ready About Press
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1886822573
• ISBN 13: 9781886822573
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 254
• Editor: Merry B. Post
• Illustrator: Dean Bornstein