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TODAY
• Chicago Tribune, Merit Pay For Teachers
• Extra Lecture Write on Merit Pay
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IDEOLOGY Shared Beliefs and Values
Views about school reform
Progressives
Conservatives
Does it matter? YES in
Priorities
Identifying problems
Kinds of solutions
• MERIT PAY SLIDES
• PLACED ON HOMEPAGE AFTER
LECTURE TODAY
• TEACHER PAY RESOURCES:
– E-RESERVES J. Keilman 2009 Chicago
Tribune
– DARLING-HAMMOND on NCLB
– FINNISH SCHOOL REFORM
Race to the Top
From the Blueprint
Full bill yet to pass
Secretary Arne Duncan
Plans to “soften sanctions”
• Provide rewards
• Raise bar—everyone ready for college
• Link merit pay for teachers to test scores
• Give teachers more autonomy
• Drastic measures for bottom 1% of schools
• Strong curriculum—teachers also need the school
to have a strong curriculum that aligns with
learning standards, and be supported by resources
that match the standards.
Darling-Hammond recommends we focus on ways
to keep more qualified teachers in the classroom.
Looks to Federal Government for Leadership
• Qualified teachers—
– *Recruit more candidates in high-need fields (math,
science, special education) and locations (low
performing schools, provide incentives). Provide
scholarships and forgive loans to students who
commit time in high-needs fields and locations.
– Provide new teachers with mentors to reduce
attrition (1/3 new teachers leave the profession in
first five years)
Darling-Hammond recommends we focus on ways
to keep more qualified teachers in the classroom.
Looks to Federal Government for Leadership
• Qualified teachers—
– *Schools should provide strong professional
development to teachers
– *Increase teachers’ salaries
– *Improve working conditions (more planning time,
encourage more teacher collaboration)
*Highlighted in blueprint for “Race to the Top”
Duncan on qualified principals and teachers….
Great Teachers and Leaders in Every School
• Effective teachers and principals. We will elevate the
teaching profession to focus on recognizing, encouraging,
and rewarding excellence.
• We are calling on states and districts to develop and
implement systems of teacher and principal evaluation and
support, and to identify effective and highly effective
teachers and principals on the basis of student growth and
other factors.
• These systems will inform professional development and
help teachers and principals improve student learning.
Race to the Top--Qualified Teachers
How do you read this statement
about teachers? Your thoughts?
• Teachers are the single most important resource to a child’s
learning. President Obama will ensure that teachers are
supported as professionals in the classroom, while also holding
them more accountable.
• He will invest in innovative strategies to help teachers to
improve student outcomes, and use rewards and incentives to
keep talented teachers in the schools that need them the most.
President Obama will invest in a national effort to prepare and
reward outstanding teachers, while recruiting the best and
brightest to the field of teaching.
• And he will challenge State and school districts to remove
ineffective teachers from the classroom.
Randi Weingarten, AFT
President (1)
Responding to claim:
You can’t fire a bad teacher.
Unions protect bad teachers.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQa1Qu2Uec0 (30 s ad, 2:20)
http://www.oprah.com/oprahshow/American-Federation-of-Teachers-Response-Video
Duncan on qualified principals and teachers….
• In addition, a new program will support
ambitious efforts to recruit, place, reward,
retain, and promote effective teachers and
principals and enhance the profession of
teaching……
• “R2T” How will states implement?
• How will districts negotiate with unions?
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The Senate bill shortens that time, but modestly. It will still take too long to remove a
teacher who can't cut it in the classroom. For starters, the House should shorten the
"remediation" period — the time a consultant works with a failing teacher to improve his
or her performance. That takes up to one year now. Principals should have the authority
to decide after 30 school days whether a teacher will continue in remediation.
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• The Senate bill sets a higher bar for granting tenure to teachers. The House should
create a tougher standard, and push for merit pay for teachers who prove their worth, who
take on tougher assignments, who are proficient in high-demand subject areas. Optimally,
the House would eliminate tenure for newly hired teachers, as Florida recently did.
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• The Senate bill allows the Chicago Board of Education to extend the school day and
school year, a key demand from Mayor-elect Rahm Emanuel. But the bill also says
teachers can bargain for more pay in exchange for that extra time. The school board faces
a $720 million budget gap. It needs full authority to extend time in the classroom without
added expense. Chicago teachers' salaries compare favorably to other big city systems. In
terms of classroom time, Chicago comes up woefully short.
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• The Senate bill requires a 75 percent vote of approval by teachers to authorize a strike
in Chicago. That's a fairly high bar, but as new school leadership gets established and
Chicago sorts through its financial crisis and contract talks, children need a guarantee that
they will be in school. The House should set at least a five-year moratorium on Chicago
school strikes.
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Performance Counts emerged from the Senate after months of bargaining
Race to the Top
Includes having states and districts adopt plans to
change the reward structures for teachers.
Pay for Performance of Teachers has many different options. Pay
increases:
1.Assess teachers’ instructional skills in the classroom.
2. Use test results
% of students to grade level,
% students with value added improvements
3. Combination
4. Bonus Pay for observable (test results) gains by students
Race to the Top
Includes changing reward structures for teachers.
Pay for Performance of Teachers has many different options:
4. Bonus Pay Some teachers receive bonus pay based
on higher test results.
Recently Chicago Teachers’ Union agreed to a bonus
system, see Chicago Tribune Article by KEILMAN, J.
“School districts retooling how they evaluate teachers”
In recent study of this bonus pay system in Chicago
showed no difference between bonus teachers and
non-bonus teachers.
E-RESERVES School Districts Retooling How
They Evaluate Teachers Chicago Tribune, Nov.
2009 John Keilman
Teachers are rarely fired for poor performance, rarely
rewarded for excellence.
• Elgin School District is using observation of practice
– Clarity of lesson
– Classroom management
To provide feedback to improve teaching.
• PROCESS OF TEACHING, NOT SCORES
• http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/education
/july-dec10/teachers_09-21.html
• Tennessee institutes bonus pay for
teachers. See analysis at the link above.
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School Districts Retooling How
They Evaluate Teachers
Chicago Tribune, Nov. 2009 John Keilman
Evanston-Skokie School District—
– Highest increases in pay will depend on
classroom teaching style and student test
scores, compare test results in September
and again in May.
TEST SCORES AND OTHER FACTORS
Evanston-Skokie School District—
teaching style plus test scores
Teachers earn excellent if:
• Move one low scoring child to grade level
• And most of the class shows one full year of growth
no matter where they start.
• Allows some scores to be excluded if child has
extended absences due to illness
Scores of tests are combined with traditional evaluation to
produce a final appraisal of excellent, satisfactory, or
unsatisfactory. Teachers must earn one excellent over several
years to earn the highest pay boost.
• In Chicago 30 schools are trying
incentives for higher test scores
– Bonus pay
Unions are beginning to agree with merti
pay plans IF scores are a small piece of
the evaluation of teachers.
Pay for performance
Many educational professionals see this
trend as “unstoppable.”
Work with teachers
• R2TT raising concerns that too many good
teachers are driven out of the profession
because they aren’t rewarded for the great
strides their students make.
• DUNCAN: Let me be clear. Teacher
compensation should never be based on just
one test score. That absolutely makes no sense
whatsoever.
Work with teachers
• Duncan has been careful to emphasize that
performance pay systems are complex, and
need to be developed in cooperation with
teachers, not imposed on them.
Research shows that “involving key
stakeholders in any pay-for-performance
effort is vital to future success,” says Susan
Freeman Burns, program manager at the
National Center on Performance Incentives
in Nashville, Tenn.
Would you work harder for a
$15,000 bonus if you raised your
students’ test scores?
In the future, there is a chance that raises
and job security could be based largely
on some form of test scores.
All salary increases
Job termination
• Unions are not perfect
• Management is not perfect
• Unions give teachers some voice in
their profession.
Extra Lecture Write
1. What is collective bargaining?
2. Comment on the Tennessee bonus pay
research. What did you learn?
Question 3 coming up.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/education/july-dec10/teachers_09-21.html
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http://learningmatters.tv/blog/on-the-newshour/race-to-the-top-teaching-for-dollars-pt-4/5123/ (6)
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http://learningmatters.tv/blog/on-the-newshour/race-to-the-top-teacher-unions-friend-orfoe-pt-3/4329/
One approach by Illinois
http://www.ieanea.org/featured/teachers-support-education-reform-package-that-puts-kids-first/
• The education reform package known as SB 7 was passed by
the state Senate on April 14, 2011 and sent to the Illinois
House for consideration. Still has to pass the House.
• SB 7 was developed during months of discussions involving a
wide variety of education stakeholders including IEA, the
Illinois Federation of Teachers and the Chicago Teachers
Union, along with school administrators, the state board of
education, lawmakers and others, including the education
reform groups Stand for Children and Advance Illinois.
• “A sprawling education-reform package that could lengthen
the school year in Chicago, give school districts new powers
to oust poorly performing teachers and impose new
obstacles on teachers strikes passed the Senate Thursday
without dissent.”
Merit pay for teachers
Bonus pay can be based on:
– Higher performance on tests scores of
teacher’s students (show growth during the
school year),
– Assessing classroom teaching
– Adding in the overall performance of the entire
school
– Involvement in professional development
• What do teachers fear? Shift from bonus incentives to
firing teachers that the score lowest.
Texas merit pay program did not
improve achievement
• A recent attempt at merit pay failed in Texas. In 2006, the
Texas Educator Excellence Grant was established with the
hope that it would produce academic improvement. However,
by Nov. 2009, the $300 million spent on merit pay for teachers
in 1,000 schools serving low-income students had not
achieved its goal, and was quietly retired.
• Supporters of TEEG maintained that bonuses were too small
and were awarded to groups of teachers at a particular school,
rather than to individual teachers. This strategy vitiated
competition between teachers that was deemed by supporters
to be indispensable to improved performance.
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http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/walt_gardners_reality_check/2010/04/skepticism_about_dc_merit
_pay_agreement.html
• Teachers mistrust the idea of merit
pay—especially when it might be based
on just one item---achievement test
scores.
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http://learningmatters.tv/blog/on-the-newshour/race-to-the-top-teacher-unions-friendor-foe-pt-3/4329/
• Who will decide what defines high
quality teaching and merit pay
structures?
R2TT will challenge States and school
districts to remove ineffective teachers
from the classroom.
When a teacher struggles in the
classroom, what should be done?
• http://learningmatters.tv/blog/on-thenewshour/race-to-the-top-teacher-unionsfriend-or-foe-pt-3/4329/
• Merit pay for teachers (6)