Thanks to the unwillingness of most suburban district leaders to embrace the underlying tenets of the No Child Left Behind Act — and their efforts to perpetuate the myth that traditional districts in the «burbs are doing just fine — they have ignored the innovations (including in the area of
revamping teacher compensation) embraced by more reform - minded districts in big cities.
Not exact matches
For the last 10 years, it has offered competitive grants for districts to
revamp their
teacher evaluation and
compensation systems.
The plan has since been
revamped to include, among other things,
compensation for teams of
teachers who have a role in moving kids and schools forward.
In my piece I cited a randomized controlled trial of the
Teacher Incentive Fund (TIF), which provided competitive grants for districts to
revamp their evaluation and
compensation systems.
Especially for the AFT, the ruling makes it even harder for the union, which works in the big cities that are the most - fervent hotbeds for
revamping traditional
teacher compensation and implementing other reforms), to keep the grand bargain it has long struck with Baby Boomers and other
teachers to keep their profession the most - comfortable (as well as best - paid) in the public sector.
Misses an opportunity to leverage change: Sen. Alexander should seize this opportunity to
revamp Title II — the part of the ESEA that provides for professional development and support — and create systemic changes to grow and maintain a high - achieving, diverse
teacher workforce, such as improving
teacher preparation, providing intensive induction for new
teachers, and supporting job - embedded professional development, coaching, and innovative
compensation systems that stretch dollars further.
It began using the Common Core a year before the state required it of districts; it was one of the first to
revamp its
teacher evaluations, and it went a step further, tying those evaluations to a new
compensation model designed by
teachers themselves; and in preparation for the new Common Core - aligned tests, it held training sessions on top of those that the state provided.