This text integrates the core instructional leadership tasks of all principals: supervision, evaluation, and professional development. It is a practical, hands-on approach based on sound theory and research. The text provides both a conceptual frame and practical exercises that contemporary principals can use in their supervision, evaluation, and professional development activities. The models for these tasks are research-based and reflect the current realities that confront principals and others committed to improving instruction.

Principals Improving Instruction: Supervision, Evaluation and Professional Development

Education & Teaching

Hoy, Wayne K.

DiPaola, Michael F.

Schools & Teaching

Allyn&Bacon

This book provides guidelines to Boards of Education and the members of communities to conduct a high-quality, research-based evaluation of their school superintendent. It also includes examples of contemporary practices of evaluating superintendents practiced across the United States. In exploring the important issue of evaluation for the superintendent the complexities and aspects of the process that make it unique are highlighted. 
Issues addressed include: 
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<li>Existing state policies that require/govern superintendent evaluations &amp; their impact on practice</li>
<li>Evaluation models that should be considered for evaluating superintendents</li>
<li>The consequences of not having a clear set of policies/procedures</li>
<li>Determining the major roles and responsibilities upon which the superintendent's evaluation should be based </li>
<li>Documenting the superintendent’s job performance</li>
<li>The policy, procedures, and training required for board members to successfully implement a superintendent evaluation system</li>
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The evaluation process proposed ensures fairness to the superintendent as well as providing accountability to the school district and community. The focus of all evaluations should be on improved performance. Evaluation is a means to an end. The ultimate purpose of superintendent evaluation is improving individual performance in order to ensure quality services and programs to students.

Evaluating School Superintendents: A Guide to Employing Fair and Effective Processes and Practices

Schneider, Tracey L.

Staples, Steven R.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

This new book recognizes the reality that all principals are responsible for supervision, evaluation, and professional development of their teachers-tasks that are neither simple nor without conflict. The primary audience of this text is aspiring and practicing principals. We hope to help them understand both the theory and practice of supervision, evaluation, and professional development. Observing instruction, collection data for reflection, and having conversations about teaching however, are not sole provinces of principals. Master teachers, teacher leaders, and teacher colleagues can also benefit from the Supervisory sections of the book, especially the chapters on high-quality instruction, improving instruction, and the classroom data collecting tools

Improving Instruction Through Supervision, Evaluation, and Professional Development (Hc)

Emerald Publishing Ltd (Iap)

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