Rethinking the Value Proposition to Improve Teaching Effectiveness

Rethinking the Value Proposition to Improve Teaching Effectiveness explores the complete set of offerings and experiences provided by a school system to a teacher. We explore what the Value Proposition is comprised of and how it can be transformed into an effective management tool in attracting, retaining, and motivating high-performing teachers.

This white paper is part of a series of publications and tools devoted to Teacher Compensation and Career Path. The rest include:

• Misfit Structures and Lost Opportunities: The Urgent Case for Restructuring Teacher Compensation and Career Path: This white paper focuses specifically on teacher salaries and details two urgent reasons for reform: misfit structures of current teacher salary schedules and lost opportunities to impact student achievement.
• Strategic Design of Teacher Compensation: This series of memos explores typical goals of compensation redesign and implications for five main design considerations: base salary, district priority incentives, school role, rewards and responsibilities, and fiscal sustainability.
• First Steps: What School Systems Can Do to Reform Teacher Compensation and Career Path Right Now: This action-oriented brief outlines four key steps districts can take this year to move toward a future vision of the teaching job. Backed by ERS research and experience, these steps will have a positive impact on student outcomes, require little or no new investment, and lay the foundations for building a highly effective teaching force.