jeff camp alternative teacher compensation presentation
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Jeff CampJeff Camp
AltCompAltComp
Hand over your lupines!
Teaching is a
Rewarding Profession
What Will Affect Her Earnings?
What Will Affect Her Earnings?
• Stay in teaching for many years
(years)
• Invest in getting an advanced
degree (degrees)degree (degrees)
• Work for one district (loyalty)
• Work on the side
What is pay for?
Why do some jobs
pay more than others?
In principle, when should
one person be paid more
than another?
Pay should be fair.
Differentiated pay can
Insights
Differentiated pay can
support a strategy.
Be careful.
Private Sector Example
Look, then LeapLook, then Leap
Private Sector Example
Not
Bill Gates
Elements of Pay
SalaryIndividual BonusIndividual BonusGroup Awards
Stock Participation
Schematic pay model
Proven contributor,
Leader
Less responsibility
Proven contributor,
key role
Raise
Promotion
Schematic pay model
Support
TestDesign
Code
Pay Supports Evaluation Cycle
Employee
Writes Self-
Evaluation,
Draft Goals Meet. Discuss.
Clarify goals.
Revise if
Manager adds
comments to
employee’s
Raises,
bonuses,
promotions,
Peers, others
provide written
input
Revise if
needed.
Managers set
“review scores”
with guidance
from HR dep’t.
employee’s
self-evaluation,
revises goals as
needed.
promotions,
corrective
support, other
actions
Guard RailsGuard Rails
• Human Resources expertise
• Training, especially for managers
• Budgets, audits
• Feedback, communication… TRUST• Feedback, communication… TRUST
Complexity? Whoa, there.
Questions?Questions?
AltComp
in Schoolsin Schools
Program DesignTie pay increases to
Teacher
Knowledge
and Skills
Pay teachers for
Gains
in Student
Achievement
Direct funds to
Position
Incentives(“Hard to Staff” schools
and subjects)
Direct funds to
Additional Pay
For Added
Responsibilities(mentors, coaches,
evaluators)
Knowledge and SkillsKnowledge and Skills
Knowledge and Skills
• When does a teacher advance a “step?”
– Automatic?
– Satisfactory review?
• Change the meaning of columns?
– Only qualifying degrees/institutions?
– Ability to teach targeted subjects?
– Completion of targeted professional
development?
Knowledge and Skills
• How will Knowledge and Skills be assessed?
– Who will review whom?
– How often and on what rubric?)
Pay for Position
Pay for Position
• What are “hard-to-staff” schools?
• What are “hard-to-staff” subjects?
• Who decides? On what basis? Does this
standard change? standard change?
• What if a teacher in a higher-
compensated position is ineffective?
Pay for Position
• What are “hard-to-staff” schools?
• What are “hard-to-staff” subjects?
• Who decides? On what basis? Does this
standard change? standard change?
• What if a teacher in a higher-
compensated position is ineffective?
Pay for Position
Pay for Added Workand Additional Responsibility
Pay for Added Workand Additional Responsibility
• Will there be a compensated career path for
teacher leadership?
– Master, mentor, evaluator? Administrator?– Master, mentor, evaluator? Administrator?
• Is it “side” work or part of the career ladder?
• Base pay or bonus?
– What if they leave the leadership position?
Pay for Results
Pay for GROWTH
Pay for GROWTH
• Which results count?
– Only what you can test?
– Other criteria? – Other criteria?
Measured in what way?
How frequently?
– What are the most useful ways to measure growth
in learning?
Pay for GROWTH
• Will you
determine top and
bottom performers bottom performers
and give them formative
feedback? How?
• Absolute “grade” or on a
curve (e.g. 20-70-10)?
Pay for GROWTH
• Who gets “credit” for learning growth?
– Which faculty drive each student’s advancement?
– Are there multi-year effects?– Are there multi-year effects?
– Who decides?
• What could cause those results to vary from
one year to the next? Should there be an
adjustment process?
Program Design
Program Design
• All schools or some schools?
• Just for teachers?
• All teachers or some teachers?• All teachers or some teachers?
• Opt-in, opt-out, or all-in?
• Group goals or individual goals?
• Using what funding source?
• What happens to surplus funds?
Program Design
• What system calculates pay?
• How are issues identified and addressed?
• How are leaders trained?• How are leaders trained?
• How are participants trained?
• How will you ensure critical systems will work?
• How will you evaluate and adjust?
No Magic
Taking theTaking the
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