ERS is excited to announce a new suite of tools and publications to support the design of new teacher compensation systems and career pathways that reward high-quality teaching and offer teachers opportunities to advance without leaving the classroom. Based on extensive research of current best practices within and outside of education, and funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, these tools are designed to help jump-start a new conversation in your district.
- The Teacher Compensation Workshop
- This “do-it-yourself” workshop brings stakeholders together to explore the costs and implications of different compensation structures.
- Misfit Structures & Lost Opportunities: The urgent case for restructuring teacher compensation and career paths
- This paper focuses specifically on teacher salaries and details two urgent reasons for reform: misfit structures of current teacher salary schedules and lost opportunities to impact student achievement.
- Rethinking the Value Proposition to Improve Teaching Effectiveness
- This paper looks at the whole package of what school systems offer teachers and examines how these offerings influence the attraction, development, retention, and motivation of a high-performing teaching force.
- Strategic Design of Teacher Compensation
- This series of memos explores typical goals of compensation redesign and implications for five main design considerations: base salary, district priority incentives, school roles, rewards and responsibilities, and fiscal sustainability.
- New Video: Strategic Resources in Action
- Georgia’s Vidalia City Schools is one shining example of how to strategically leverage people, time, and money in the face of low funding levels.
- Tool Tip: Winning Hold’em Hand on Teaching Effectiveness
- Watch this video and see how School Budget Hold’em can help you find dollars for teachers even when budgets are tight.
For more information go to: http://myemail.constantcontact.com/Restructuring-Compensation-and-Career-Paths.html?soid=1102100306252&aid=4RXiLgjhpPA
