This valuable resource guide provides ideas about how to improve school labor relations by incorporating the principles of Total Quality Management. It presents key historical concepts, necessary tools and important strategies for transforming the current status of school labor relations into one characterized by trust and openness, with the emphasis on students.

Teacher Unions and TQE: Building Quality Labor Relations (Total Quality Education for the World)

Business & Money

Streshly, William A.

DeMitchell, Todd A.

Economics

Corwin

Student Dress Codes and the First Amendment: Legal Challenges and Policy Issues

Students’ early morning decisions about what to wear to school have led many school districts into legal issues and policy challenges. Confederate belt buckles, exposed bellies, sagging pants, political statements, and social commentary have all been banned from schools, and these bans have often resulted in litigation by students who claim their constitutional right to free speech has been violated. Student Dress Codes and the First Amendment: Legal Challenges and Policy Issues explores the legal issues that arise when a school prohibits various types of student attire. Through an analysis of major Supreme and federal court cases, this volume examines conflicts that arise when administrators juggle a student’s right to free speech with the need to maintain an environment conducive to learning.

Fossey, Richard

Reference

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Educators at the Bargaining Table: Successfully Negotiating a Contract That Works for All

Educators at the Bargaining Table provides a roadmap for understanding the path of bargaining for those who have not sat at the table. For those beginning bargainers and experienced at the ebb and flow of table talk, this book provides signposts and practical applications for bargaining. There is something for all educators, teachers and administrators, early career and experienced educators to learn and apply from this book.

Management & Leadership

This book focuses on preparing for the bargaining table and strategies and approaches for bargaining the contract at the table.

The Challenges of Mandating School Uniforms in the Public Schools: Free Speech, Research, and Policy

School uniform polices, often associated with private schools, are increasingly being adopted in public schools; but not without controversy. The often asserted reasons for mandating uniforms include improved student behavior, better attendance, less competition over clothing, and improved student learning because students would not be distracted by who was wearing what and could focus on their studies. Wishful thinking or empirically tested hypotheses? However, opponents assert that a mandated uniform seeks to homogenize the students, violates their free speech rights, and does not solve the problems the policy is intended to remedy. The Challenges of Mandating School Uniforms in the Public Schools: Free Speech, Research, and Policy explores the policy rationale, the constitutional rights of students, and the research on the impact of school uniforms. Educators, parents, and policymakers will find this book and its companion, Student Dress Codes and the First Amendment: Legal Challenges and Policy Issues, a must read when considering student attire issues.

Administrative Law

Teachers stand at the intersection of educational goals, directing students down the road to success or to the byways of diminished opportunities. They are the most important school variable effecting student achievement. Consequently, placing and retaining only qualified and effective teachers in our nation’s classrooms is a critical responsibility of school leaders. Effective supervision and evaluation requires that the school leader possess the knowledge of effective instruction, exhibit skills in documentation of professional conduct, and embrace a professional approach with the will to place and keep students at the center of school policy and practice decisions. Supervising and evaluating teachers is a difficult, but essential work. Research shows that time and expertise are necessary to effectively supervise and to build a case for adverse employment decisions, when necessary. Threading the Evaluation Needle: The Documentation of Teacher Unprofessional Conduct addresses the legal and professional knowledge that structures discipline and dismissal in the public schools. The authors, based on their educational, legal, and research experience, provide templates for various types of documentation necessary to effectively build a case for discipline. This book seeks to give principals the tools and knowledge to institute in good faith a fair and accurate documentation system.

Threading the Evaluation Needle: The Documentation of Teacher Unprofessional Conduct

Paige, Mark A.

Threading the Evaluation Needle

Teachers and Their Unions: Labor Relations in Uncertain Times explores the decade of uncertainty in public education following the Great Recession by first laying a foundation that describes the development of teachers and public education and the rise of teacher unions. The selection of the industrial labor model at the outset of public sector collective bargaining set the table for challenges to its fit with education. The theme of teacher as member of a union and teacher as a professional is explored within the context of a collective bargaining environment. The section “Law and Politics in Uncertain Times: Retrenchment and Assault” explores the decade of uncertainty. It reviews the industrial union model and within the twin challenges of the conundrum of teacher as union member and professional in the struggles of the decade. Tenure (boondoggle or necessary protection), VAM (rank and yank), right-to-work, agency fees, and teacher strikes are explored within the themes of the industrial union model and the tension of union member and professional. The book concludes with thoughts for the future and responds to the question of whether teacher unions are still pertinent.

Teachers and Their Unions: Labor Relations in Uncertain Times

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

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Teacher Unions and TQE: Building Quality Labor Relations (Total Quality Education for the World)

Student Dress Codes and the First Amendment: Legal Challenges and Policy Issues

Student Dress Codes and the First Amendment: Legal Challenges and Policy Issues

Educators at the Bargaining Table: Successfully Negotiating a Contract That Works for All

Educators at the Bargaining Table: Successfully Negotiating a Contract That Works for All

The Challenges of Mandating School Uniforms in the Public Schools: Free Speech, Research, and Policy

The Challenges of Mandating School Uniforms in the Public Schools: Free Speech, Research, and Policy

Threading the Evaluation Needle: The Documentation of Teacher Unprofessional Conduct

Threading the Evaluation Needle

Teachers and Their Unions: Labor Relations in Uncertain Times