Coping with Conflict and Complaints: Tips for Handling Grievances and Rogue Complaints
Legal
If there are going to be complaints about you or your campus—and there probably will be—it is preferable the complaining party put it in writing.
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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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What’s a Hostile Work Environment? What’s Harassment?
Legal
If you are in a supervisory position and someone alleges “harassment” or “hostile work environment,” you must know how to handle the situation.
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Reassignments and Pay Cuts: What’s Allowed?
Legal
You have been the successful principal at Rosebud Elementary for 20 years. This year has been a little bumpy, and in March your supervisor tells you effective immediately you are reassigned to be one of five assistant principals at Cactus Thorn Middle School.
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What You Need to Know About TEA’s Do Not Hire Registry
Legal
In March 2020 the Texas Education Agency launched a first-of-its-kind “Do Not Hire” registry for Texas schools. Here are some important pointers.
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Student and Employee Political Speech
Legal
An election is brewing and in case you haven’t noticed, everything these days is political, including COVID-19, masks, social distancing and reopening schools.
