Strategic Design of Teacher Compensation

With national focus on reforming teacher evaluation and development, school districts are finding themselves in need of rethinking how teachers are compensated and how to tie this compensation to attracting and keeping high-quality teachers, all while making the new system sustainable. This report by Education Resource Strategies combines a series of memos and explores standard goals of redesigning compensation and its implications for base salary, district priority incentives, school roles, rewards, and fiscal sustainability. This resource seeks to provide a starting point.