Comprehensive Faculty Development: A Guide to Attract, Retain, Develop, Reward, and Inspire

Independent School Management developed this guidebook to help schools implement, manage, and sustain effective practices for faculty hiring, evaluation, development, compensation, and selective retention. While we strive at all points to support teachers to the fullest, this book is ultimately not about teachers—it is really about students. We believe, by following these guidelines, your school will ultimately increase student performance, satisfaction, and enthusiasm. By supporting teachers, your school supports its students and helps ensure its long-term growth and success.

This book is written based on ISM’s experience since 1975 in guiding private school administrators, as well as from current knowledge of research and best practices in the human resources, performance, evaluation, growth and renewal, management, and leadership fields of study. Much of the content is derived from ISM’s own research studies (i.e., Research on School Management and the Student Experience Study). Although the book has private school administrators and teachers in mind, the principles and guidelines are largely applicable in most school scenarios.

This book complements well with another ISM publication, Teaching Excellence II: A Research-Based Workbook for Teachers, which is also available on Amazon.