Title: Innovative Compensation Strategies Dom Summa, Assistant Executive Director California Teachers Assoc
1InnovativeCompensation StrategiesDom Summa,
Assistant Executive DirectorCalifornia Teachers
AssociationMarch 30-31, 2009
2Evaluating Compensation Models
- Any Model Must Be Consistent with the CTA Mission
and Policy
3The CTA Mission Statement
4Protect and Promote the Well Being of its Members
Improve Conditions of Teaching and Learning
Advance the Cause of Free, Universal, Quality
Public Education
Protect Human Dignity and Civil Rights
Secure a More Just, Equitable and Democratic
Society
5We Believe Every Alternative Compensation System
Must Meet These Minimum Standards for Adoption
- CTA State Council in April 2007 adopted a list
of minimum standards - List used data from other states, such as
Minnesota - Included as CTA Handout
6Educational Change Workgroup ReportPart 2
Approved by State Council January 2008
7Teacher Compensation
- Improve Overall Teacher Pay in Order to Recruit
and Maintain a Professional Teaching Force - Single Salary Schedule Continues to be a
Foundation of Teacher Pay - Pay System Should Promote Teaching as a Career
8Teacher Compensation
- Successful Compensation Systems Should
- Be voluntary, locally bargained and available to
all unit members - Be funded by new money, above the current
funding, and that new funding to support the new
system must be guaranteed and permanent - Provide salary enhancements that are adequate,
fairly distributed and designed to support
professional practice
9Examples of Collaboration
- Denvers ProComp Plan
- Minnesotas Quality Compensation Plan (Q-Comp)
- San Francisco Plan
10Next Steps
- Improve from 48 in our effort to fund California
Schools - Fully fund BTSA and PAR programs to provide
support for newer teachers and assistance to
experienced teachers - Union involvement is necessary