Sentences with phrase «use teacher compensation systems»

Not exact matches

Most of that money was paid out using traditional single - salary compensation schedules, a system that typically pays the same salary to all teachers with the same level of education and number of years in the classroom.

Meanwhile, in school districts from Washington, D.C., to Los Angeles and Seattle, teacher unions and superintendents have clashed over the use of new evaluation systems that base compensation on student test scores.

The measures of teacher quality that are used by most public school systems to screen candidates and determine compensation — certification, experience, and education level — have been well researched, but there is little definitive empirical evidence that these characteristics, defined in general terms, are associated with higher student achievement.

The task has proven so difficult that last August, the federal Education Department gave states and districts until the start of the 2013 - 14 school year to have the systems fully implemented for use in teacher compensation and retention decisions.

She has extensive experience in student achievement data analysis, design and implementation of district data systems, statistical methodologies, and the creation and use of relational databases in teacher evaluation and performance - based compensation reforms.

States and school districts are using the evaluation systems to make key personnel decisions about retention, dismissal, and compensation of teachers and principals.

«While some of these districts are able to do so because they converted to a performance pay system, like Washington, D.C., some do so using a traditional model of teacher compensation, like Chicago and Milwaukee,» she added.

Strauch - Nelson said «the new system won't change how the district makes employment decisions or compensation,» but it «will be used to tailor support for teachers and inform professional development.»

Perhaps the strongest model in the United States of a collaborative urban school system, Cincinnati has a long history dating back to the mid-1980s of experimenting with team - based instructional approaches, using innovative compensation systems to reward excellence, and providing career ladders to enable the most effective teachers to coach their colleagues.

While there is justification for rewarding teachers based in part on how their students perform, compensation systems should use multiple measures, including classroom observation.