Personnel Priorities in Schools Today: Hiring, Supervising, and Evaluating Teachers

Although administrators have many responsibilities, none is more critical to their school, students, and personal success than hiring, supervising, and evaluating teachers. Excellent teachers make the difference in how well students achieve and this book offers the formula for hiring the best teachers available.


About the Author
Thomas A. Kersten is associate professor emeritus in Educational Leadership at Roosevelt University in Chicago and Schaumburg, Illinois. He has twenty-eight years of public school administrative experience in Illinois including eleven as superintendent. He is also the author of Stepping into Administration: How to Succeed in Making the move and Moving into the Superintendency: How to Succeed in Making the Transition.

Margaret E. Clauson is assistant superintendent in Wilmette, Illinois. She has served as an Illinois educator for over twenty years as a teacher, assistant principal, middle school principal, Administrator for Human Resources, and Assistant Superintendent. She has written and presented on a variety of leadership topics.