At some point, most teachers will raise the question of equity of workload both across divisions from lower to upper school and even within the same […]

Where to Start? Every school needs to develop a philosophy of faculty compensation that should be tied to the school’s mission. Very few schools have thought […]

Almost all schools want to pay their teachers more competitive packages to be in the running to recruit them in a tightening market and to ensure […]

Great heads are characterized by persistent focused leadership. They do not flit from one initiative to the next leaving earlier ones unfinished or in limbo. When […]

Faculty salaries and benefits make up 60% to 85% of the budget of most schools. In today’s challenging economic environment, boards are worried about managing the […]

Most independent schools have moved now from individually negotiated salary decisions, often inherited from prior heads, to public school type lock step lane and track scales. […]

In the realm of international and independent schools, boards and heads talk frequently about wanting and needing professional teacher evaluation/appraisal. Yet in most of our schools […]

Does your school have a “mission based compensation” delivery system? Are the board and school leadership even familiar with the term? The concept of “mission based […]

I. An Interesting Model Picture a well known boarding school which has four compensation “strands”: 1. There is a typical, age based salary scale, up to […]