WGEE Presents:
Making Sense of Compensation Reform
The WGEE presents a new working paper on Educator Compensation Reform. This paper reflects the core principles of the WGEE: that improving educator quality requires a comprehensive approach to reform and that no single reform is sufficient to ensure uniformly high quality teaching and leading. The paper describes eight essencial principles to guide comprehensive reform to existing compensation systems:
- The reforms are linked to a comprehensive and coordinated vision of teaching and learning.
- The process of reform includes broad, and meaningful, stakeholder participation and endorsement.
- The reforms are designed to promote continuous improvement for educators and schools.
- There are multiple measures of performance and multiple incentives and rewards at all levels of the system.
- The compensation system includes differentiated career opportunities and new roles and responsibilities for teachers and leaders.
- The compensation system promotes and enhances a culture of high expectations, collaboration, teamwork, and innovation.
- The compensation system is designed to be responsive to ongoing feedback about the effectiveness of the overall system.
- The compensation system is sustainable.
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