Teacher Pay-for-Performance: What Motivates Teachers to Opt in?

Improving teacher compensation is a critical lever for improving student achievement and rewarding the impact of high-quality teachers. Teacher incentive structures remain a contested issue within education policy debates. The ultimate question of whether pay-for-performance (PFP) systems lead to more effective teachers and higher student achievement also has not been definitively answered. A recent study…

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Strong Student-Teacher Relationships Form Foundation for Success at Dresden Elementary

They’re called parent-teacher conferences. But for Dresden Elementary fourth-graders, a more accurate term might be student-parent-teacher conferences. When teachers at 2015 SCORE Prize finalist school Dresden Elementary meet with parents twice each year, the student involved is always present and at the center of the conversation, said fourth-grade teacher Honey Cantrell. “It’s more of a…

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