Give your school administrators proven practices to attract and retain top-quality teachers. Developing the Effective Teacher provides easy-to-follow guidelines, sample procedures and forms — along with professional development tools — to help your principals streamline school recruitment and evaluation processes and develop top-of-the-line classroom leaders.

Each section delivers essential checklists and field-tested strategies, such as how to:

• Evaluate applications and conduct successful interviews
• Establish a successful mentoring program for teachers
• Assess teacher performance and correct performance problems
• Set performance goals and activities for professional development programs
• And much more

Plus, you find out what you need to know about the legal implications and requirements involving staff discipline, termination, contract issues and more — so you stay in compliance and out of the courtroom.