Strategic Compensation at Wayside Schools
Background
In the spring of 2022, Wayside Schools became the only open-enrollment charter school awarded the 2022-23 Strategic Compensation Fellowship Grant.
The Strategic Compensation Fellowship Grant provides Local Education Agencies (LEAs) and Education Service Centers (ESCs) the opportunity to plan and implement salary-based strategic compensation systems, in alignment with funds received through the Teacher Incentive Allotment and supplemented with local funds. The purpose of this grant program is to provide the opportunity for planning and implementation for strategic compensation with the goal of rewarding, retaining, and recruiting the best teachers to serve the students who need the most support. Grantees will be districts or ESCs supporting districts that do not currently have a salary-based strategic compensation system in place.
For the purpose of this grant, salary-based strategic compensation includes systems that change total salary based on effectiveness or other external factors, but do not include systems that change salary based on additional responsibilities (e.g. department chair add-on) or systems that include targeted stipends.
What is Strategic Compensation?
Strategic compensation is an approach to paying teachers that thoughtfully aligns compensation with district goals for recruiting, developing, and retaining high-quality teachers.
Strategic compensation may also apply to other educators such as administrators or paraprofessionals.
Contact
Email Us
- Marcia Molinar, Sr. Director of Strategic Initiatives, mmolinar@waysideschools.org
- Shana Walker, Strategic Compensation Coordinator, swalker@waysideschools.org