The Key Connection One New England boarding school with limited resources has an excellent tradition of recruiting young male teachers from the Ivy League colleges to […]
Changing a salary system involves risks. Sometimes they are enormous. However, the process of exploring options can be invigorating, intellectually exciting, and can be community building. […]
A May series of three articles in the San Jose Mercury News reported on the movement towards performance pay in California and Denver’s progress on this […]
Across the world in workshops on various topics, trustees ask this consultant how boards should really assess the quality of teaching that the school delivers. In […]
Fully 50% of the nation’s independent schools operate with salary “systems” that are not “systems” at all, but negotiated entry salaries with flat, fairly fixed annual […]
The original model of an independent school workload as viewed through the lens of the boarding school was three or four courses, coaching and advising students. […]
One of the best examples of effective teacher evaluation over time, from both the perspective of the faculty and the Administration, exists at the Haverford School […]
Ladder, Band and Range Considerations and the School’s Philosophy of Compensation In independent schools, the four key elements of compensation planning are: the philosophy of compensation; […]
In a time of economic uncertainty and an anticipated teacher shortage, independent schools are searching for ways to attract and retain quality teachers. One way is […]
