# Episode 191: Your Employee Handbook Revisions Should Be Written For Your Best Teachers (Not Your Worst)

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Podcast: [The Private School Leader Podcast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-private-school-leader-podcast-5763378)
Published: 2026-06-13T11:00:00+00:00
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## Resource

It's mid-June, the students and teachers are gone and the building is pretty quiet. Many private school leaders are sitting down with a bottle of water, last year's Employee Handbook, and a red pen. For better or for worse, this is handbook season . This is the time of year when we review policies, update language, make revisions, and prepare for the upcoming school year. Unfortunately, when handbook season rolled around, I made the same mistake year after year after year. Let me know if this sounds familiar. During the year, a teacher would do something annoying and frustrating: Maybe they repeatedly showed up late. Maybe they didn’t meet deadlines on report cards. Maybe they sent emails with grammatical errors. Maybe they missed recess duty or lunch duty. Maybe they failed to communicate with parents when small issues bubbled up. And what did I do? I created a new policy. I added another paragraph. I made the handbook more specific. I added another potential consequence. And then one day I realized that my employee handbook looked less like a professional guidebook and more like a legal document written to control the worst employee I ever had. On today’s episode of The Private School Leader Podcast, I want to try to persuade you that Your Employee Handbook Revisions Should Be Written For Your Best Teachers (Not Your Worst) . I hope that you will listen to the podcast for your weekly dose of motivation, inspiration and PD. Thanks so much for listening and thanks for making a difference! Mark Minkus If you like the podcast, please write a review and leave a rating. Your review helps to push this content out as a suggested podcast to private school leaders all over the world. The Private School Leader Podcast has been downloaded in 72 countries and all 50 states. Thank…

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