Managing Marginal School Employees: Applying Standards-Based Performance Measures.Managing Marginal School Employees: Applying Standards-Based Performance Measures by Lynette Relds, Brianne Reck and Robert Egley, Rowman & Littlefield Education, Latham, Md., 2006, 166 pp., $29.95 softcover soft·cov·er adj. Not bound between hard covers: softcover books; a softcover edition. Managing Marginal School Employees is a case study companion text aimed at prospective and practicing school leaders. It attempts to engage the reader in dilemmas that deal with marginal employees in school buildings. The book is divided into 11 chapters, which align align (  līn),v to move the teeth into their proper positions to conform to the line of occlusion. with the Educational Leadership Constituent CONSTITUENT. He who gives authority to another to act for him. 1 Bouv. Inst. n. 893. 2. The constituent is bound with whatever his attorney does by virtue of his authority. Council's program standards. Some 68 cases are presented, each with probing questions and suggestions for follow-up follow-up, n the process of monitoring the progress of a patient after a period of active treatment. follow-up subsequent. follow-up plan activities. The book attempts to contribute to the development of prospective and early career school leaders by allowing them to anticipate the vagaries, quandaries and traps inherent in working with teachers and support staff whose performance is problematic or worse. However, this work has several notable problems. The ELCC ELCC Early Learning and Child Care (Canada) ELCC Educational Leadership Constituent Council (Reston, VA) ELCC effective load carrying capacity ELCC Enchanted Lens Camera Club program standards are dated and obscure. The book refers to the National Policy Board for Educational Administration website, which leads the reader to a document titled "Standards for Advanced Programs in Educational Leadership." Once there the reader finds seven (not 11) standards, which are widely known and used in many texts aimed at school leaders. Accordingly, the seven standards are much more appropriate for use with the cases. The second concern is that the many cases vary in their degree of richness, realism and practical use. Some are too extreme to be transferable to everyday work. A final, though lesser, concern is that several cases use acronyms that are unique to the state of Florida and their references are lost to those without a Florida glossary A term used by Microsoft Word and adopted by other word processors for the list of shorthand, keyboard macros created by a particular user. See glossaries in this publication and The Computer Glossary. of terms. All in all, the book makes a worthy attempt to enrich the development of aspiring as·pire intr.v. as·pired, as·pir·ing, as·pires 1. To have a great ambition or ultimate goal; desire strongly: aspired to stardom. 2. and early career school leaders who will be facing tough personnel problems throughout their careers. Reviewed by Perry Berkowitz, associate professor of education leadership, College of St. Rose, Albany, N.Y. |
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