Project SMART (Strategies for Motivating and Rewarding Teachers) focuses on teacher effectiveness and growth in student learning at the school, individual teacher, and principal levels. The incentive structure is comprised of three strands.
STRAND I: School value-added analysis of multiple years of data from the SAT-10 and TAKS.
STRAND II: Rewards core instructional staff for individual efforts at improving classroom/student test scores based on value-added analysis. In order to include more teachers, there are four parts of this strand to ensure the inclusion of the maximum number of core teachers in PK-12.
STRAND III: Rewards instructional staff for cooperative efforts at achieving or maintaining the Recognized or Exemplary performance of their students.
Principals will be eligible for rewards based on school performance in Strand I and Strand III, and on student value-added performance for Strand II.
The maximum reward for teachers is $3,000, increasing to $7,600 by the sixth year.
The SAS® EVAAS® system of value-added data, designed by William Sanders, is used to determine the impact of each teacher's instruction on learning.
Formative and summative evaluations are being conducted to determine the effectiveness of the Project SMART model.
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Wednesday, February 4, 2009
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