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Teacher improvement and performance plans

Pages where the archive text discusses a formal performance, capability or improvement process applied to a teacher or school leader. Different systems used different names for similar processes.

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Terminology across systems

Different jurisdictions and employers used different names for similar performance processes, including TIP / TPI (Teacher Improvement Plan), MUP (Managing Unsatisfactory Performance), PIP, IIP, IAP, TSP and DPMP. The archive text is classified when these terms appear in meaningful body context. Page counters include guides and process articles; unique-story counters exclude hubs, pure research and generic guides.

Archive pages mentioning a performance/improvement process: 19 · Unique stories: 4

13MUP (pages)1 in unique stories
3TIP / TPI (pages)3 in unique stories
0PIP (pages)0 in unique stories
0IIP (pages)0 in unique stories
0IAP (pages)0 in unique stories
0TSP (pages)0 in unique stories
0DPMP (pages)0 in unique stories
16Other performance / capability (pages)2 in unique stories

Reported outcomes (among improvement-plan stories)

2Dismissed
1Resigned / retired under pressure
0Survived or returned
1Unresolved or unknown

Stories where a performance or improvement process was reported before dismissal, resignation or departure. This does not establish that the process caused the departure.

Stories (4)

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A NSW assistant principal

New South Wales1979Unresolved or unknownpersonal_accountTeacher improvement and performance plansWorkplace bullying, mobbing and isolationMental and physical harm to teachers

The account states / reports themes reflected in the archive text.

Bad Apple school principals and departmental officers bully classroom teachers into ill health and out of work. A Workers Compensation loss. A northern NSW story. Other VIC principals say... A teacher…

1,073 words · 5 min read

A workers’ compensation loss

New South WalesMultiple outcomes reportedpersonal_accountTeacher improvement and performance plansDismissed, forced out or career endedViolence against teachersWorkplace bullying, mobbing and isolationStudent behaviour and lack of administrative supportMental and physical harm to teachersCasualisation, insecure employment and non-renewalcontent warning

The account states / reports themes reflected in the archive text.

A NSW science teacher has been refused Workers Compensation for 'workplace bullying'. - Bad Apple Bullies Bad Apple school principals and departmental officers bully classroom teachers into ill health…

11,442 words · 57 min read

Bec, Reader's Comment, Teachers are powerless to stop schoolyard violence, NSW H

New South Wales01 September 2009Multiple outcomes reportedhub_extractTeacher improvement and performance plansDismissed, forced out or career endedViolence against teachersWorkplace bullying, mobbing and isolationFalse, secret or defective investigationsMental and physical harm to teachers

The account states / reports themes reflected in the archive text.

Bec, Reader's Comment, Teachers are powerless to stop schoolyard violence, NSW High School Teacher, 01 September 2009: http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/teachers-are-powerless-to-stop-schoolyard-vio…

1,084 words · 5 min read

The falsified records

National / generalMultiple outcomes reportedpersonal_accountTeacher improvement and performance plansDismissed, forced out or career endedViolence against teachersAccounts alleging institutional gaslighting or narrative reversalWorkplace bullying, mobbing and isolationWhistleblower retaliation or paybackFalse, secret or defective investigationsStudent behaviour and lack of administrative supportMental and physical harm to teachersUnion, regulator or departmental failureCasualisation, insecure employment and non-renewalDiscriminationcontent warning

The account states / reports themes reflected in the archive text.

How your Education Queensland "official records" can be extensively falsified. And how decisions concerning you can be based on these falsified "records". An abusive school principal can "edit" the do…

62,486 words · 312 min read

Background material

Research, guides, hubs and commentary — not counted in the unique-story total above.

About Bad Apple Bullies

National / general23 June 2002Multiple outcomes reportededitorialTeacher improvement and performance plansDismissed, forced out or career endedAccounts alleging institutional gaslighting or narrative reversalWorkplace bullying, mobbing and isolationWhistleblower retaliation or paybackFalse, secret or defective investigationsStudent behaviour and lack of administrative supportMental and physical harm to teachersCasualisation, insecure employment and non-renewalDiscriminationcontent warning

Background or process material in the archive.

Australian teachers are being bullied into ill health and out of work. - Bad Apple Bullies Bad Apple Bully school principals and departmental officers can bully Australian teachers into ill health - a…

2,144 words · 11 min read

Crime and misconduct

National / general01 October 2002Ill-health retirementguideTeacher improvement and performance plansDismissed, forced out or career endedWorkplace bullying, mobbing and isolationFalse, secret or defective investigationsMental and physical harm to teachersUnion, regulator or departmental failureDiscrimination

Background or process material in the archive.

Home | Bullyproof Yourself | The Early Stages | Meeting the Mob | Investigations | "Other Ways" | Research | Changing the culture | For Administrators | Mob Theory | Crime and Misconduct | News |…

1,963 words · 10 min read

EQ discipline files

Queensland2000guideTeacher improvement and performance plansViolence against teachersWorkplace bullying, mobbing and isolationWhistleblower retaliation or paybackFalse, secret or defective investigationsStudent behaviour and lack of administrative supportMental and physical harm to teachersUnion, regulator or departmental failure

Background or process material in the archive.

What happens when you try to make a Public Interest Disclosure (PID) to the CMC Liaison Officer in Education Queensland Head Office? The CMC Liaison officer may not respond to your email. The people t…

3,508 words · 18 min read

For administrators

National / general2005guideTeacher improvement and performance plansViolence against teachersWorkplace bullying, mobbing and isolationFalse, secret or defective investigationsStudent behaviour and lack of administrative supportMental and physical harm to teachersUnion, regulator or departmental failureDiscriminationcontent warning

Background or process material in the archive.

Bad Apple Bullies inservice: Dealing with Workplace Psychopaths - An inservice course for Queensland Department of Education and the Arts administrators. Why do Queensland Department of Education ( DE…

3,547 words · 18 min read

Get legal advice

National / general2006Multiple outcomes reportedguideTeacher improvement and performance plansDismissed, forced out or career endedViolence against teachersWorkplace bullying, mobbing and isolationWhistleblower retaliation or paybackStudent behaviour and lack of administrative supportMental and physical harm to teachersUnion, regulator or departmental failurecontent warning

Background or process material in the archive.

The Bad Apple Bullies webmaster has come to the conclusion that what teachers who are dealing with workplace abuse really need is good legal advice. Teachers - you need good legal advice right from th…

2,379 words · 12 min read

Help Robina

National / general2004Left teachingeditorialTeacher improvement and performance plansDismissed, forced out or career endedWorkplace bullying, mobbing and isolationMental and physical harm to teacherscontent warning

Background or process material in the archive.

Please help Robina Cosser research the workplace bullying in Australian schools. - Bad Apple Bullies A teacher's story: Victoria Help Robina Robina Cosser has contacted the webmaster to ask for help i…

351 words · 2 min read

Internal review

National / generalguideTeacher improvement and performance plansWorkplace bullying, mobbing and isolationWhistleblower retaliation or paybackFalse, secret or defective investigationsMental and physical harm to teachersUnion, regulator or departmental failureDiscrimination

Background or process material in the archive.

What happens if Education Queensland tell you that they are going to have an "internal review" of your complaint? Watch the wording that the Education Queensland officers use very carefully. An "Inter…

5,389 words · 27 min read

Letters

National / general23 June 2002Multiple outcomes reportededitorialTeacher improvement and performance plansDismissed, forced out or career endedViolence against teachersWorkplace bullying, mobbing and isolationWhistleblower retaliation or paybackFalse, secret or defective investigationsStudent behaviour and lack of administrative supportMental and physical harm to teachersUnion, regulator or departmental failureCasualisation, insecure employment and non-renewalDiscrimination

Background or process material in the archive.

In Dangerous Liaisons Robert Needham has reminded us of the words of Aldous Huxley - "the means employed determine the nature of the ends produced". If I were invited to speak to the APSACC conference…

27,082 words · 135 min read

Ministerial briefings

Queensland17 October 2006Multiple outcomes reportedguideTeacher improvement and performance plansDismissed, forced out or career endedWorkplace bullying, mobbing and isolationWhistleblower retaliation or paybackFalse, secret or defective investigationsStudent behaviour and lack of administrative supportMental and physical harm to teachersUnion, regulator or departmental failure

Background or process material in the archive.

by senior officers of Education Queensland seems to encourage Queensland school principals to abuse the MUP and Grievance policies - and to drive good Queensland classroom teachers into ill health and…

9,701 words · 49 min read

Research

National / general30 October 2013Multiple outcomes reportedresearchTeacher improvement and performance plansDismissed, forced out or career endedViolence against teachersWorkplace bullying, mobbing and isolationFalse, secret or defective investigationsStudent behaviour and lack of administrative supportMental and physical harm to teachersCasualisation, insecure employment and non-renewalDiscriminationTeacher shortages and loss of experienced teachers

Background or process material in the archive.

Research into the working conditions of Australian teachers. - Bad Apple Bullies A teacher's story: Victoria COAG Report: many Australian adults lack the basic literacy and numeracy required to functi…

6,464 words · 32 min read

Stage 1 grievance

National / generalguideTeacher improvement and performance plansViolence against teachersWorkplace bullying, mobbing and isolationFalse, secret or defective investigationsStudent behaviour and lack of administrative supportMental and physical harm to teachersUnion, regulator or departmental failureDiscriminationcontent warning

Background or process material in the archive.

What happens when you make a Stage 1 Grievance to an Education Queensland District Director? The person whose behaviour you are complaining about may be asked to investigate their own behaviour. Educa…

4,591 words · 23 min read

The allegations

National / general29 November 2000DismissedguideTeacher improvement and performance plansDismissed, forced out or career endedWorkplace bullying, mobbing and isolationFalse, secret or defective investigations

Background or process material in the archive.

What sort of allegations do abusive "Bad Apple Bully" administrators make against teachers? A workplace psychopath can take nothing at all and turn it into an allegation against you which is never exp…

4,641 words · 23 min read

The Queensland Ombudsman

Queensland21 December 2006guideTeacher improvement and performance plansWorkplace bullying, mobbing and isolationFalse, secret or defective investigationsUnion, regulator or departmental failureDiscrimination

Background or process material in the archive.

Home | Bullyproof Yourself | The Early Stages | Meeting the Mob | Investigations | Freedom of Information | The falsified records. | The Queensland Ombudsman | "Other Ways" | Research | Changing the c…

2,616 words · 13 min read

Verifact investigations

National / generalDismissedguideTeacher improvement and performance plansDismissed, forced out or career endedViolence against teachersWorkplace bullying, mobbing and isolationWhistleblower retaliation or paybackFalse, secret or defective investigationsStudent behaviour and lack of administrative supportMental and physical harm to teachersUnion, regulator or departmental failureCasualisation, insecure employment and non-renewalDiscriminationcontent warning

Background or process material in the archive.

What happens if Education Queensland appoint a Verifact Investigator to investigate your complaint about workplace bullying or harassment? Verifact investigation records are excellent. You can underst…

28,942 words · 145 min read

Your rights at work

National / generalMultiple outcomes reportedguideTeacher improvement and performance plansDismissed, forced out or career endedWorkplace bullying, mobbing and isolationMental and physical harm to teacherscontent warning

Background or process material in the archive.

The Bad Apple Bullies webmaster has no legal knowledge and cannot endorse any particular solicitor. Please use your own judgement. )); $A(this.attributes).each(function(attribute){ if (attribute.name!…

1,237 words · 6 min read