Goal
Retaining, recruiting, mentoring, and development of top, motivated faculty is recognized by all relevant studies as the number one correlation with school excellence and student performance. The school will identify and hire the best faculty available, nurture and retain them wherever possible, and support them in making the solid living they deserve for fulfilling this noble work.
Strategies
- Begin a compensation system that involves a merit component
Teaching is one of few professions in the world that typically does not have rewards for merit other than leaving the classroom for administration. The best teachers should be rewarded. Among other by-products, such a system will allow the school to improve retention of its star teachers.
- Increase faculty and staff salaries
Raising compensation greatly increases the chances the school can attract and retain high-quality faculty when alternatives exist in public schools or private business. For such important work, we should provide our teachers a solid living which keeps pace with comparable opportunities and the chance for a sustainable retirement.
- Increase faculty and staff professional development and enrichment opportunities
Ten-year studies by Independent School Management, the nation’s leading independent school consulting group, indicate that a culture of professional growth and life-long learning among the faculty is the single best indicator of student and school success.
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