Working With Under Performing Employees and Progressive Discipline

Progressive discipline can be good for staff, bad for children and either an asset or a liability for education leaders. Our guests walk us through what we need to know about progressive discipline and when and how to abandon it.

Chris Hawthorne is an attorney at Ronald V. McGuckin and Associates, the nation's foremost resource for legal, business, and administrative support for the early care and education industries, (Bristol, Pennsylvania). David Bloomfield is Professor of Education Leadership, Law, and Policy at Brooklyn College and the City University, and author of American Public Education Law. Michael Smith is Superintendent of Tuscola Community Unit School District #301 in Tuscola, Illinois. He has more than 17 years of education experience as a teacher, coach, K-12 Principal, Assistant Superintendent, and Superintendent.