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Strategies and Resourcesfor
Supporting Rural Educator Quality
Webinar – Supporting Rural Schools and Districts
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A School Staffing TsunamiThe Great Wave by Hokusai 1832
We can not use the methods of yesterday … to staff the schools of the future.
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Focus Areas
1. Reinventing Teacher Compensation
2. Recasting the Teaching Profession
3. Improving Teacher Working Conditions
4. Improving Community Infrastructure and Support for Teachers
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Compensation
SC Teacher Advancement Program (SCTAP)
• Currently being implemented in 45 SC schools• Provides “value-added” data on teachers• Distributes performance pay based on student improvement
Salary Incentives for Teaching Excellence (SITE)Concept to transition the current flat salary schedule to a new dynamic system that rewards teacher performance and value-added student outcomes.
Compensation for serving hard to staff (rural) schools and hard to fill positions.
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Compensation
• Provides sizable stipends to National Board Certified Teachers
• Increases compensation and teaching quality.
Take One – A program to help rural school district “grow there own” National Board
Certified teachers. This provides a starting point and assistance for becoming
Nationally Board certified
Housing and Transportation Incentives
Competitive salaries for rural school districts
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Recasting the Profession
• Promote a positive image of the education profession
• Develop less complicated pathways to certification and recertification
• Redefine teacher education programs
• Continue to offer comprehensive mentoring programs for new teachers
• Develop a teacher community model
• Explore innovative methods for inducting new teachers
• Explore options to ensure substitute teachers are prepared to positively affect student performance
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Program of Alternative Certification (PACE)
International Visiting Teachers Program
Diverse Pathways
Recasting the Profession
Adjunct Teacher Corp
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Improving Working Conditions
Leadership Continuum – Provide a comprehensive continuum of leadership development programs with priority to challenged schools
Equitable Distribution of Funding – Create ways for funds to be collected and distributed so that all children have the opportunity for a rich education experience.
Public School Choice – Creating choices for students, creates choices for teachers.
- Single Gender- Montessori- Outdoor-Focused- Language immersion
- Inside out Centers for Learning - New Tech high Schools
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Improving Working Conditions
Teaming and Looping – Teams of learning facilitators oversee the learning of students for multiple years.
SCTeacherVillage.com - An initiative designed to use technology to provide social networking to new teachers, replace the feeling of isolation with a feeling of connectedness.
Teacher Renewal Center – A public-private partnership to create a world-class renewal center for teachers.
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Changing Dynamic in the Workplace
Isolated - Soloist Engaged Team Member
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Community Infrastructure and Support
Teacher Housing Projects -
Palmetto Hero
Establish teacher housing communities in rural areas - Renovation Projects - TeacHouse – Student teachers and induction teachers - Teacher Villages – mixed
use
Partnership with the State Housing Authority to provide low interest loans for teachers that are 1st time home owners – priority to rural areas