Double principals' pay

Double principals' pay: "Nick Anderson's story on a new Gates Foundation survey of 40,000 teachers. That is a big sample, canvassed via telephone and online by Harris Interactive, and they produced another strong answer to an old question: How do you get good teachers? Answer: Hire great principals. When given a choice of methods to retain good teachers, the most popular response from the teachers was supportive leadership, with 68 percent saying it was absolutely essential. Second place went to having time to collaborate with other teachers, 54 percent. High salaries took only sixth place, with 45 percent. One way to do that would be to offer double the usual salary for exceptional principals willing to lead schools that need an infusion of good teachers to raise mediocre student achievement. Of course you would have to be very careful whom you picked for such jobs, and make it




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