This book and downloadable resources show school leaders how to develop teacher portfolios and put them into action. They will provide confidence and credibility as you engage in:

- "high stakes" summative evaluations

- initial hiring, tenure, and other key personnel decisions

- fostering a school culture which encourages high levels of performance

This book and downloadable resources provide a reliable and easy way for teachers to:

- collect and analyze data about their effectiveness

- monitor and improve their own performance

- improve student learning

Adopting the templates in this book and downloadable resources will enable you to define:

- standards which describe actual duties and activities of teachers

- behaviors which indicate the quality of teaching

- "artifacts" which provide evidence of teaching and learning

- scoring rubrics which assist in objective evaluation

The downloadable resources, contain easy-to-use templates of performance assessment rubrics, feedback forms, and other documents to help you organize & implement Teacher Portfolios in your school.