Reward and develop high-quality teachers through substantially higher salaries plus increased professional responsibility¶

Strategy · All strategies
Evidence · no claims cited

Description¶

The strategy the report documents at TEP is to concentrate resources on the teaching force rather than on other inputs: teachers receive salaries of $125,000 along with substantial professional responsibility, funded within a standard public charter school budget. The report presents this personnel approach as the school's distinctive lever and associates it with consistently positive achievement impacts over the school's first four years.

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

• A school operating under standard public funding that reallocates its budget toward teacher compensation and responsibility

Constraints¶

• Evidence comes from one charter school; the report does not print causal decomposition of which personnel practices drove the gains

Target Learners¶

• students in high-poverty urban public charter schools

Target Learning Goals¶

• raising student achievement in math, English language arts, and science

Related Strategies¶

• Tep Teacher Compensation Model
• Reward service in high-poverty Title I schools with a salary supplement and portable credential for recognized effective teachers

Examples¶

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Key Sources¶

• Joshua Furgeson, Moira McCullough, Clare Wolfendale, Brian Gill. (2014). The Equity Project Charter School: Impacts on Student Achievement. Cambridge, MA: Mathematica Policy Research. https://www.mathematica.org/publications/fr-the-equity-project-charter-school-impacts-on-student-achievement-final-report