For over twenty years, The Educator's Guide to Texas School Law has been the preeminent source for information on Texas school law for the state's education community. The sixth edition is the latest in a series of revisions designed to keep the book current, comprehensive, and readable. Readers will find a number of changes in the new edition. First and foremost, the immensely important No Child Left Behind Act has been incorporated at various points in the text, particularly in discussions pertaining to accountability, assessment, and school safety. Other changes include an expanded discussion of charter schools, school uniform policies, and student drug testing programs. Employment issues are now addressed in two chapters, one dealing with contractual matters and the other with personnel management. The new edition includes all legislative developments, relevant federal and state court rulings, and Texas Commissioner of Education decisions to date. In its ten chapters, The Educator's Guide discusses a myriad of topics relating to the legal structure of the Texas school system, attendance law and the instructional program, the education of children with disabilities, employment law, rights of expression and association, the role of religion, student discipline, open meetings and public records, privacy issues, student search and seizure, and legal liability of school districts and employees.

The Educator's Guide to Texas School Law

Frank R. Kemerer

Jim Walsh

Univ of Texas Pr

<p>The new edition accommodates recent developments affecting employment decision making including the Texas Teacher Evaluation and Support System (T-TESS). Whether the goal is performance improvement or preparing for a negative employment decision, the sixth edition provides an indispensable guide for all school administrators on how to go about documenting both professional and auxiliary employee job performance effectively. As with previous editions, the forthcoming sixth edition is desktop friendly in providing up-to-date information and numerous examples and illustrations of how to go about documenting. These include: An overview of the current Texas legal framework within which employee documentation takes place Basic principles and examples for documenting employee job performance effectively whether in or out of the classroom How to tailor supervisory style to teacher characteristics and administrator goals Revised focused observation forms for easily gathering cumulative data in the classroom of the marginally effective teacher and doing so in a way that is compatible with T-TESS or the district or charter school's locally developed appraisal system Sample directives for changing teacher behavior, organized by key components of teaching effectiveness with with more than 70 teacher behaviors linked to more than 90 student outcomes. Discussion of professional communication including social networking through digital devices Appendices containing the Code of Ethics for Texas Educators, documentation forms, and templates ready for use Digital link for downloading the documentation forms and templates in the appendices ready for use</p>

Texas Documentation Handbook Appraisal, Nonrenewal, Termination

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John A. Crain

Schools & Teaching

Texas School Administrators' Legal Digest

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