Episode 191: Your Employee Handbook Revisions Should Be Written For Your Best Teachers (Not Your Worst)
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This episode discusses the importance of revising employee handbooks to support the best teachers rather than focusing on the worst behaviors.
It's mid-June, the students and teachers are gone and the building is pretty quiet. Many private school leaders are sitting down with a bottle of water, last year's Employee Handbook, and a red pen. For better or for worse, this is handbook season . This is the time of year when we review policies, update language, make revisions, and prepare for the upcoming school year. Unfortunately, when handbook season rolled around, I made the same mistake year after year after year. Let me know if this sounds familiar. During the year, a teacher would do something annoying and frustrating: Maybe they repeatedly showed up late. Maybe they didn’t meet deadlines on report cards. Maybe they sent emails with grammatical errors. Maybe they missed recess duty or lunch duty. Maybe they failed to communicate with parents when small issues bubbled up. And what did I do? I created a new policy. I added another paragraph. I made the handbook more specific. I added another potential consequence. And then one day I realized that my employee handbook looked less like a professional guidebook and more like a legal document written to control the worst employee I ever had. On today’s episode of The Private…
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