Sentences with phrase «teacher compensation»

Moreover, the statewide schedule is typical of teacher compensation in most other public school systems nationwide.

The plan has been promoted by union leaders, school officials, and experts on teacher compensation as a way to reduce teacher «burnout» and cut costs.

His primary area of interest is the development of alternative strategies for teacher compensation in public schools.

, which ties teacher compensation directly to student test scores.

Again, these charts don't, by themselves, support any sweeping conclusions about reforming teacher compensation.

I've spent some 25 years negotiating and arguing to support improved teacher compensation.

The stability of value - added measures of teacher quality and implications for teacher compensation policy.

This research brief considers the stability of value - added measures of teacher effectiveness over time and the resulting implications for the design and implementation of performance - based teacher compensation schemes.

In public schools we spend over a third of our budget on teacher salaries, yet we tend to view teacher compensation as a separate issue from raising student achievement.

Another thing is that we could be more strategic about teacher compensation.

Our paper documents the importance of this omission, and suggests a way to make teacher compensation more fair for more teachers.

But while base teacher salaries have not risen, total teacher compensation has, driven by large increases in health care and retirement costs.

Again, I am committed to seeing teachers compensation packages improve.

I also tried to take a look at teacher compensation, but found it very difficult to compare with the data out there.

Once we've empowered schools, we're ready to address teacher compensation.

The alternative is to rest teacher compensation on factors that have little to do with student learning.

One of the most challenging issues in assessing teacher compensation is determining how much time teachers spend working compared to other professionals.

Our findings make clear that a significant fraction of the resources allocated toward teacher compensation in current public education budgets is not being invested in resources to educate today's students at all.

About 85 percent of the funds would fund teacher compensation; the remaining money would fund independently run, public charter schools.

As the study this site recently showed about teacher compensation nationally, teachers are not being over compensated.

Poor teacher compensation is associated with lower job satisfaction and higher turnover rates, which can affect children's learning and development.

Finally, the need to broaden the discussion of performance pay to a more comprehensive review that explicitly connects the structure of teacher compensation to school district goals is highlighted.

He has specifically come out in favor of efforts to tie teacher compensation to student performance.

If we used the mean compensation of these educational policymakers as the benchmark for teacher compensation, we might at least approach a fair wage for teachers.

Understanding the actual costs that providers incur at higher - quality levels — including increased teacher compensation — can help states target tiered child care subsidies and QRIS quality awards more appropriately so that programs are adequately incentivized and compensated for achieving high quality.

Gov. Pat McCrory said in a press conference on Tuesday that NCAE was perpetuating confusion about the new teacher compensation plan, and that had another party recommended the pay raises, they'd be cheering.

She was the co-lead author of It's More Than Money; Tying Earning to Learning: The Link Between Teacher Compensation and Student Learning Objectives; Focus on Literacy: Professional Development Audit; Catalyst for Change (the summative Denver report on performance - based compensation); and New Directions in Christina (the summative report on systemic reform in Delaware's largest district).

Last year, lawmakers authorized the creation of a task force to consider teacher compensation models that took into account teacher performance in the classroom.

Unhappy with those findings, they then exaggerated the value of teacher compensation by comparing the retirement benefits of the small minority of teachers who stay in the classroom for 30 years, rather than comparing the pension benefits for the typical teacher to their peers in other professions.

These restrictions make it difficult for the city to overhaul its overly burdensome traditional teacher compensation structure — or develop alternatives that are more cost - effective (and, at the same time, reward the district's good - to - great teachers).

Awarded grants can be used to implement a high - quality mentoring program for new (three or fewer years) teachers; a teacher evaluation system using multiple measures to include classroom observation (can also include student comments), degree of student learning, and results of teacher self - evaluations; restructuring of the school day or year to maximize collaborative learning for educators; an alternative teacher compensation program; and incentives to reduce teacher turnover.

GothamSchools reports on the release of E4E's pay structure policy team paper, «A New Way to Pay: Reimagining Teacher Compensation.»

Proposition A also provided funding for a number of innovative teacher compensation programs, including extra pay for teachers in difficult - to - staff schools and difficult - to - fill subject areas.

to consider teacher compensation models that took into account teacher performance in the classroom.

«Study Casts Cold Water on Bonus Pay,» read Education Week's headline, and the news was widely interpreted as a setback for attempts to link teacher compensation to classroom performance.

This paper examines how teacher compensation varies across California and how the variation is driven by factors beyond the control of school districts.

Macon County Schools, which also submitted a proposal, prefaced their plan with a long list of reservations about moving to a pay - for - performance teacher compensation system.

A few publications have simplified / demystified / explained / provided context for what's happening: EdWeek, the Washington Post, and Fortune have tackled the broad topic of teacher compensation with varying levels of detail.

That there are other fiscal matters that they consider to be equally important, including police and fire service and Medicaid, that have been subjected to cutbacks, makes taxpayers less willing to listen to cries against revamping teacher compensation.

Check out NCTQ's study of states» strategic teacher compensation policies.

States may be able to play a strong role in rethinking teacher compensation systems, including basing rewards, in part, on student gains.

There is a strong case, then, for modifying teacher compensation systems to offer larger salaries for math and science teachers as a means to improve teacher quality — and student achievement — in these subjects.

A recent survey of teachers in Washington state conducted by the University of Washington - Bothell economist Dan Goldhaber similarly found that 59 percent of teachers opposed differentiating teacher compensation by subject area.

«It won't be principals bringing the tool to teachers, it will be teachers bringing the tool to teachers,» said Donaldson, who recognizes staff may be «a little anxious» about the new process, even though it will not affect teacher compensation.