Welcome to the Task Force - Notes from 10/13/2008

The Park Hill Alternative Pay Task Force met for the first time on October 13, 2008 to discuss the concept of Alternative/Performance Pay, and to discuss the task forace goals. The goal is the following:

The goal of the Park Hill Alternative Pay Task Force is to gather and study the best information on alternative pay systems in K-12 public education, and explore how such systems could be successfully implemented by the Park Hill school district to align with the district’s vision, mission and values.

As a part of the meeting, the group engaged in activities to discuss how the current teacher salary schedule incents teachers. The task force brainstormed the following ways that teachers are motivated by the current salary schedule:

• Get education more quickly to move laterally on the salary schedule
• Move away from frozen salary areas by getting additional educational hours
• Be loyal to Park Hill to move vertically on the salary schedule
• Be profiled correctly (at step and level) at the inception of employment
• Sponsor clubs and activities for additional pay

The task force discussed the school district's newest vision, mission and values (VMV). From this, the task force identified the following requirements of teachers based upon the district's VMV:

• Demand academic excellence/Have high expectations (12)
• Share best practices throughout the district (10)
• Be a respected role model with integrity and good character (7)
• Focus on the "whole child" (social, academic, emotional, health, vocational, etc.) (7)
• Be motivated and inspiring to other teachers (6)
• Embrace new ideas and methods/Improve practice (6)
• Keep students physically and emotionally safe (4)
• Focus on ALL students/Individualize (4)
• Ensure that students visualize and are prepared for their specific futures in a variety of ways (4)
• Use data to drive instruction (2)
• Meet personal goals that are aligned with the BSIP (2)