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  • Responding to a Bad T-PESS Evaluation

    Legal

    Writing a response is a time-honored, professional activity that is almost always recommended following a bad evaluation. Despite the absence of an express rule, your supervisor would look foolish rejecting a timely submitted, professional response to the evaluation.

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  • Responding to Intentional Non-Collaborators

    Instructional Leadership

    How would you respond to a student who does not participate in class? Or one who does not follow classroom rules and exhibits behaviors so disruptive they impact other students’ ability to learn?

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  • Giving and Receiving Employee References

    Legal

    Administrators are often asked to give a good reference for an employee. Maybe the employee is excellent, and you have no reservations. Maybe the employee is marginal, or worse, the employee is being pushed out, but a good reference will expedite the departure.

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The Texas Elementary Principals and Supervisors Association (TEPSA), whose hallmark is educational leaders learning with and from each other, has served Texas PK-8 school leaders since 1917. Member owned and member governed, TEPSA has more than 6000 members who direct the activities of 3 million PK-8 school children. TEPSA is an affiliate of the National Association of Elementary School Principals.

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