Updated Edition of Best Seller! Organized in a month-by-month format, this revised edition incorporates feedback from school districts and school administrators, a new look at the evaluation process and identifying the marginal teacher, and key descriptors and phrases for effective documentation. A new CD-ROM includes all of the sample forms, checklists, calendars, letters, and sample teacher dismissal documentation, which can be added for easy modification.

Simplify complicated teacher dismissals by doing your homework! Are you faced with the difficult task of teacher evaluations? Does the burden of proof fall to you in cases of teacher dismissals? For over a decade, principals have turned to The Marginal Teacher as a resource for ensuring instructional competency in their schools. This third edition of The Marginal Teacher offers timely solutions for successfully dealing with marginal teachers. Lawrence illustrates the proper actions that principals should integrate into the evaluation processes to successfully gather documentation to help improve or terminate an ineffective teacher. Complete with tools and resources to streamline the evaluation process, you′ll find: An updated PC or Mac CD-ROM with customizable forms, checklists, calendars, and teacher dismissal documentation Understanding the evaluation process, procedures, policies, and new legislation Handling nontenured teacher dismissal Integrating classroom observation techniques Dealing with teacher misconduct Incorporating action steps for conducting the school level dismissal meeting Let this time-tested guide ease the difficult task of teacher dismissal.

Updated Edition of Bestseller! Simplify complicated teacher dismissals by doing your homework! Are you faced with the difficult task of teacher evaluations? Does the burden of proof fall to you in cases of teacher dismissals? For over a decade, principals have turned to The Marginal Teacher as a resource for ensuring instructional competency in their schools. This third edition of The Marginal Teacher offers timely solutions for successfully dealing with marginal teachers. Lawrence illustrates the proper actions that principals should integrate into the evaluation processes to successfully gather documentation to help improve or terminate an ineffective teacher. Complete with tools and resources to streamline the evaluation process, you'll find: An updated PC or Mac CD-ROM with customizable forms, checklists, calendars, and teacher dismissal documentation Understanding the evaluation process, procedures, policies, and new legislation Handling nontenured teacher,dismissal Integrating classroom observation techniques Dealing with teacher misconduct Incorporating action steps for conducting the school level dismissal meeting Let this time-tested guide ease the difficult task of teacher dismissal.

Shares an extensive selection of practice tests and drills, in an easy-to-follow preparatory guide that includes three additional full-length practice tests on the accompanying CD and full coverage of the essay-writing section.

Teaching Resistance is a collection of the voices of activist educators from around the world who engage inside and outside the classroom from pre-kindergarten to university and emphasize teaching radical practice from the field. Written in accessible language, this book is for anyone who wants to explore new ways to subvert educational systems and institutions, collectively transform educational spaces, and empower students and other teachers to fight for genuine change. Topics include community self-defense, Black Lives Matter and critical race theory, intersections between punk/DIY subculture and teaching, ESL, anarchist education, Palestinian resistance, trauma, working-class education, prison teaching, the resurgence of (and resistance to) the Far Right, special education, antifascist pedagogies, and more. Edited by social studies teacher, author, and punk musician John Mink, the book features expanded entries from the monthly column in the politically insurgent punk magazine Maximum Rocknroll, plus new works and extensive interviews with subversive educators. Contributing teachers include Michelle Cruz Gonzales, Dwayne Dixon, Martín Sorrondeguy, Alice Bag, Miriam Klein Stahl, Ron Scapp, Kadijah Means, Mimi Nguyen, Murad Tamini, Yvette Felarca, Jessica Mills, and others, all of whom are unified against oppression and readily use their classrooms to fight for human liberation, social justice, systemic change, and true equality. Royalties will be donated to Teachers 4 Social Justice: t4sj.org

This book provides the school administrator with a comprehensive, practical approach to the teacher-dismissal process. The procedures are organized in a month-by-month and step-by-step format. The three-part process involves: (1) establishing and implementing a consistent, schoolwide teacher-evaluation process; (2) establishing consistent procedures to identify the marginal teacher and develop a specific assistance plan; and (3) collecting and preparing the documentation necessary for dismissal. Chapters offer suggestions for each of the following processes: defining the marginal and the self-assured teacher; establishing the teacher-evaluation process; beginning the evaluation process; identifying teachers in need of assistance; implementing a plan for intensive assistance; deciding on retention or dismissal; following through with the dismissal process; and preparing for the third-party hearing and bringing closure. Observation forms, checklists, a suggested timeline, and 34 sample documents are included. (LMI)