Alaska School Performance Incentive Program

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Alaska School Performance Incentive Program

• Measuring Individual Student Achievement

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What is the Program?School Performance Incentive
Program

• Performance incentive pay when the students in a
  school demonstrate growth in academic
  achievement based on the Standards Based
  Assessments (SBAs) given annually in April
• Growth is defined in the law as more rapid than
  expected or advanced performance that remains at
  that level
• Compares the same student from the previous year
  to current year
• Ninety-five percent of all students enrolled must
  participate in the assessment

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BenefitsSchool Performance Incentive Program

• Strong workforce for Alaska
• Enhance teacher recruitment
• Entire staff in a school receive incentive
  (teachers, principal, support staff, etc.)
• Accountability directly linked to high and
  rapidly improved levels of achievement
• Promote collaboration, effective instruction and
  spread responsibility across grade levels and
  content areas
• Requires focused instruction aligned to Alaska
  standards

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Expected OutcomesSchool Performance Incentive
Program

• All staff have ownership of instruction and share
  responsibility for results
• Incentive to work differently, embrace innovation
  and create partnerships to improve student
  achievement
• Accountability and incentive to cause all
  students to reach proficiency and higher levels
  of advanced achievement
• Instruction designed and delivered to meet
  student needs

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Value TableSchool Performance Incentive Program
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Computing IndexSchool Performance Incentive
Program
Each student test record is included in the table
to develop the index score. In this example two
students participated in all three subtests and
two students only participated in two subtests.
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Computing IndexSchool Performance Incentive
Program
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Performance LevelsSchool Performance Incentive
Program
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Performance Level IncentiveSchool Performance
Incentive Program
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Statutory RequirementsSchool Performance
Incentive Program

• Up to 850 certificated staff in the state may
  receive incentive payment and the
  non-certificated staff employed in the schools
  where awarded certificated staff are employed
• To reach the 850, the schools are ranked based on
  the index from the highest performing school to
  the lowest performing school
• Schools receive the payment starting with the
  highest school until the count reaches 850
  (without going over) certificated staff, stopping
  at the school that does not cause the count to go
  over 850
• 5 of the funds awarded to schools within a
  district are allocated to district wide staff who
  contributed to the awarded school performance, as
  determined by the Commissioner and superintendent
  in consultation with site principals
• Superintendent or chief officer is not eligible

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Regulatory RequirementsSchool Performance
Incentive Program

• Performance Levels and Value Table
• The performance levels (advanced, proficient
  plus, proficient, etc.) defined in the regulation
  were determined by using the adopted scale scores
  from the Standards Based Assessment and dividing
  in half those levels below advanced
• The value table was developed after a statewide
  stakeholder committee provided input in June 2006
  and revised when the same group evaluated the
  first years performance and provided more
  feedback in October 2007
• Each value is in relation to those values above
  and below that level of achievement

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Regulatory RequirementsSchool Performance
Incentive Program

• Eligible Schools
• Provide mathematics and language arts instruction
• Any combination of grades K-12, except for 11-12
  only, which is not eligible
• Administer the reading, writing, and mathematics
  standards based assessment

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Regulatory RequirementsSchool Performance
Incentive Program

• Data Required from District
• All staffing reports due October 15 submitted for
  individual staff members including FTE
• Verification of staff submitted May 1 to include
• Mailing address of all eligible staff
• Verification that staff were at least employed
  100 days between September 1 and April 1
• Updated addresses of staff after the selection of
  schools, which takes place July 25

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Regulatory RequirementsSchool Performance
Incentive Program

• Timeline of Incentive
• Schools selected on July 25
• Payment made within 60 days
• 30 days from selection of schools the
  superintendent, after consultation with the site
  principal, and Commissioner agree to district
  wide employee incentive reward recipients
• Payment made within 60 days

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Regulatory RequirementsSchool Performance
Incentive Program

• Part Time Multi-Site Employees
• Must be employed .25 to receive award, and
  payments are partial based on employment at an
  FTE of .25, .50, .75 or 1.0
• Employees who work in multiple sites follow the
  same payment method as part time employees, being
  awarded if they are at least .25 FTE at an
  awarded site

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Regulatory RequirementsSchool Performance
Incentive Program

• First incentive was based on assessment results
  in 2007 as compared to 2006, and 2008 incentive
  payments are based on 2008 results compared to
  2007
• School districts are notified of school awards on
  July 25, 2008
• Payments will be sent to recipients in September
  2008