Posted on December 16th, 2008 by arodden
Chicago Public School District, one of SMHC’s Case Study districts, is having early success with a federally funded, performance pay pilot program. Chicago Teacher Advancement Program (TAP) is a five-year program that offers bonuses to all staff at nine elementary schools and one high school, depending on the performance of students in those schools. In [...]
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Posted on December 5th, 2008 by arodden
An article from Education Daily focuses on the importance of modern staffing and scheduling systems to well-run school districts. Among other factors, antiquated scheduling and staffing systems are behind the significant teacher shortages, low levels of achievement, and large achievements gaps that afflict America’s largest urban districts. Citing the SMHC case studies, this story highlights [...]
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Posted on December 3rd, 2008 by jkelly
A case study on The New Teacher Project (TNTP) is one of nine case studies recently released by SMHC. This case study scrutinizes TNTP’s holistic approach to education, offering a thorough examination of TNTP’s Teacher Fellows recruitment programs, school-level staffing initiatives, and training and certification programs, among other initatives. To review this case study, please [...]
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Posted on December 1st, 2008 by jkelly
Medill reporter Whitney Jackson wrote this article on the findings of the SMHC Case Studies, released November 18. Jackson reports on urban districts’ strategies to attract and retain top teacher talent, as well as the future of the human capital debate.
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Posted on November 20th, 2008 by jkelly
This article from the Columbia University Teachers College provides an overview of the SMHC Case Studies, including that success in these districts was due to effective collaboration between schools and institutions of higher education. Colleges and universities can be important partners in providing a pipeline for talent. The case study districts worked with local universities on programs [...]
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Posted on October 14th, 2008 by jkelly
In an article in today’s Philadephia Inquirer, SMHC acts as a resource for the 20th most widely circulated paper in the country, in one of our country’s largest urban school districts. The article discusses a common problem in many districts–that of staffing schools. Allan Odden, SMHC co-director, provides information on the comprehensive hiring strategies [...]
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Posted on October 14th, 2008 by arodden
Today, SMHC releases the fifth paper in the series on teacher compensation. Building on the first four installments, this paper articulates the importance of making changes to teacher compensation
as part of an overall strategic plan for improvement, rather than merely because it is the “reform of the moment.” The paper also estimates the costs of [...]
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Posted on October 6th, 2008 by arodden
SMHC today released its forth paper in a series, How to Pay Teachers for Student Performance Outcomes, by Anthony Milanowski. The paper discusses the third key element in a modernized teacher compensation system, variable pay. Variable pay, also often called incentive pay, or pay for results, is typically based on some measure of worker or [...]
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Posted on September 29th, 2008 by arodden
Today, we post the third of six new papers focusing on issues related to new forms of teacher compensation. The previous two papers have shown that new forms of teacher compensation are needed as an important element in the strategic management of teachers. They argued for increases in teacher pay levels through new elements based on [...]
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Posted on September 24th, 2008 by arodden
Today, SMHC releases its second paper in the series on teacher compensation, which asks the question, Do Teacher Pay Levels Matter? This paper and its summary, as well as the other core SMHC resources, can be found in the Resource section of this Web site.
Teachers have always been regarded as an important part of the [...]
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