Strategic compensation is an approach to professional pay for teachers that emphasizes not only accountability and rewards for student learning, but also for teacher learning and teacher leadership. By incorporating student achievement , professional development, peer-to-peer collaboration, teacher leadership and measures of teaching effectiveness into compensation decisions, strategic compensation seeks to reward the most effective teachers and teacher leaders for using, and spreading, their expertise to other teachers in their schools and districts.

 Use the resources below to learn more about strategic compensation for teachers.

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Articles and Research

• “Performance Pay for Teachers: Designing a System that Students Deserve.” This report argues for paying teachers more and differently to reward good performance. Read more >
• “The Future of Teacher Compensation: Déjà Vu or Something New?” Joan Baratz-Snowden writes for the Center for American Progress about the need to consider compensation for teachers as just one element of more comprehensive reforms – and the importance of teacher involvement and buy-in in these new strategic compensation plans. Read more >
• “Design Components of Incentive Pay Programmes in the Education Sector.” Matthew Springer and Ryan Balch review international best practices to guide identifying and rewarding effective teachers. Read more >