For the remainder of the day, Dan concentrated on reviewing the lesson plans on file and making notes as to those that showed deficiencies, or, worse, were missing altogether. He would schedule his first conferences with these faculty members and get them on the right track. At least four faculty had missing or deficient lesson plans and that would not do. On Friday, he would announce the new required one-on-one meetings and class visitations and would schedule these for the week following their first faculty meeting—giving faculty members at least three days’ notice before a class visitation as a courtesy. The evaluation schedule would be announced at Friday’s meeting—though not the reason they were chosen which would hopefully be obvious to the individuals involved and a first unspoken warning that they needed to step up their games.


    Dan remained at his desk and made it a point to be visible several times during the day by taking a stroll on both floors of the school, walking slowly past every classroom and observing from outside the goings on while walking by. When he passed Vanessa Hunter’s classrooms on three different occasions that day, he noticed her sitting at her desk reading while her students worked on assignments in their workbooks or sat at their desks chatting with their neighbors or looking bored. A few were clearly flipping pages on magazines that had nothing to do with the course. Mental note—she would be the first person whose classroom he would visit and the first scheduled in-person meeting. She was also one of the faculty members with shoddy and missing lesson plans.


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