(Priority: Staff Profile, Student Achievement, and Rigorous Curriculum). 3 Implement such strategies as financial incentives, 1. As a recruitment and retention strategy, PGCPS increased opportunities for promotion and career turnaround schools will use a performance growth, and more flexible work conditions that are incentive-based model for teacher compensation August 2010 June Janice Briscoe, – designed to recruit, place, and retain staff with the (Priority: Staff Profile, Rigorous Curriculum); 2013 Rhonda Pitts, skills necessary to meet the needs of the students in Director of FIRST Each turnaround school will be required to the turnaround school program participate in the PGCPS FIRST initiative (Financial Incentive Rewards for Supervisors & PRIORITY: Assessments, School Culture and Teachers) that provides for financial incentive Climate, Effective Leadership rewards for improved performance. (All teachers must agree to participate in FIRST.) The PGCPS FIRST initiative provides financial rewards to teachers and administrators for earning high evaluations and showing evidence of improving student achievement. Monetary rewards will be aligned and calculated within the existing FIRST framework: student achievement; hard-to-staff subjects; rigorous evaluation; and professional growth. Teachers will also be given the opportunities to participate in Leadership Projects which would positions as Single-gender Coordinator, School Improvement Coordinator and member of Outreach Team. [NOTE: FIRST was supported by the Gates Foundation for a specified period of time. The program ended June 2012.] In addition to opportunities for FIRST financial rewards, turnaround schools will utilize a 1003g stipend system that rewards non-FIRST eligible teachers and support staff for school-wide
(Priority: Staff Profile, Student Achievement, and Rigorous Curriculum). 3 Implement such strategies as financial incentives, increased opportunities for promotion and career growth, and more flexible work conditions that are designed to recruit, place, and retain staff with the skills necessary to meet the needs of the students in the turnaround school PRIORITY: Assessments, School Culture and Climate, Effective Leadership 1. As a recruitment and retention strategy, PGCPS turnaround schools will use a performance incentive-based model for teacher compensation (Priority: Staff Profile, Rigorous Curriculum); Each turnaround school will be required to participate in the PGCPS FIRST initiative (Financial Incentive Rewards for Supervisors & Teachers) that provides for financial incentive rewards for improved performance. (All teachers must agree to participate in FIRST.) The PGCPS FIRST initiative provides financial rewards to teachers and administrators for earning high evaluations and showing evidence of improving student achievement. Monetary rewards will be aligned and calculated within the existing FIRST framework: student achievement; hard-to-staff subjects; rigorous evaluation; and professional growth. Teachers will also be given the opportunities to participate in Leadership Projects which would positions as Single-gender Coordinator, School Improvement Coordinator and member of Outreach Team. [NOTE: FIRST was supported by the Gates Foundation for a specified period of time. The program ended June 2012.] In addition to opportunities for FIRST financial rewards, turnaround schools will utilize a 1003g stipend system that rewards non-FIRST eligible teachers and support staff for school-wide August 2010 – June 2013 Janice Briscoe, Rhonda Pitts, Director of FIRST program
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