Twelve studies find that overall gains in charter schools are larger than other public schools; four find charter schools’ gains higher in certain significant categories of schools; six find comparable gains; and, four find that charter schools’ overall gains lagged behind traditional schools.
Source: Charter School Achievement: What We Know, July 2005 Update
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Pay is based on performance and responsibility. See FLC Expectations of Staff. The Family Learning Center has four levels of performance pay for instructional roles based on specific, valuable skill and responsibility areas: advisor, facilitating learning, applying technology, assessing learning, learning networker, achieving learning results with all students, and contributing to the development of the program. An individual begins at level one accepting or being assigned various skill areas of responsibility. An individual moves to the next level in each skill area based on demonstrated performance and knowledge. Decisions about having reached a new level of performance is made by independent, objective means. Individuals can move to a next level at any time, budget permitting.
Levels
- New on the job.
- Initial demonstration of skill.
- Demonstrated proficiency.
- Expert (in demand to teach others)
Each level of expertise carries additional salary increments from the table below based on continued performance. Increments are prorated for the year.
Base Salary
- Employed as facilitator of learning: 22,500
- Educational assistant: 14,500
- For educational assistant, add 400 per year of completed college work up to four years.
- For a completed masters degree add 800.
| Skill Area |
Level 1
Starting |
Level 2
Initial |
Level 3
Proficient |
Level 4
Expert |
| Advisor |
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500 |
1,500 |
2,500 |
| Facilitator |
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500 |
1,500 |
2,500 |
| Technology |
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500 |
1,000 |
1,500 |
| Assessor |
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500 |
1,000 |
1,500 |
| Networker |
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500 |
1,000 |
1,500 |
| Learning Results |
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500 |
1,500 |
3,000 |
| Program Develop. |
|
500 |
1,000 |
1,500 |
| Total |
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3,500 |
8,500 |
14,000 |
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| Supervisory |
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1,000 |
2,000 |
3,000 |
| Total Possible |
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4,500 |
10,500 |
17,000 |
Note: A person may be at various levels for different skill areas.
Skill Area Definitions
- Advisor means being an advocate, guide, personal learning coach to a group of students.
- Facilitator means using instructional processes that impact all students.
- Technology means facility with various kinds of technology for learning.
- Assessor means ability to use multiple means of evaluating student progress.
- Networker means obtains ideas, programs, resources from various sources to augment program.
- Learning results means success at obtaining student learning with all students.
- Supervisory means managing adults.
- Program development means contributing to the continuous improvement of the school.
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