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June 6, 2007

Live Chat: Teachers and Performance Pay

via a reader involved in these issues:

WHEN: Wednesday, June 6, 4 p.m. to 5 p.m., Eastern time

WHERE: edweek-chat.org

Submit questions in advance here.

Earlier this spring, a panel of 18 highly accomplished teachers assembled by the Center for Teaching Quality—and known as the TeacherSolutions group— released a report that strongly advocates performance-pay systems for teachers.

Under TeacherSolutions' recommendations, teachers would be paid more over time as they advance along a career ladder that extends from "novice" to "expert," but they could also receive extra pay for taking on leadership roles, improving students academic performance, acquiring new knowledge and skills, and working in low-performing schools. According to the report, in Wake County, N.C., for example, novice teachers could make as little at $30,000, while experts could make up to $130,000 per year depending on their performance.

"We have to provide more for those teachers who continually go above and beyond to ensure high academic gains," Betsy Rogers, a member of TeacherSolutions, wrote in an article for teachermagazine.org. "[TeacherSolutions'] goal is to encourage—even provoke—a deep conversation about quality teaching and how a variegated pay system could support the development of teaching as a profession."

In this chat, two members of the TeacherSolutions group, Nancy Flanagan and Lori Nazareno, will be online to take your questions about their recomendations, current issues in teacher compensation and career advancement, and the challenges of evaluating teacher performance.

Please join us for the discussion.

Submit questions in advance here.

Posted by Jim Zellmer at June 6, 2007 9:51 AM
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