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Leading Troubled Schools to the Tipping Point
Abstract:
Financial incentives alone are insufficient to keep our most qualified teachers in schools that need them most, the author asserts. Among such schools are those with the highest concentrations of underqualified teachers. The lack of experienced teachers leaves beginners without needed support, a condition that strongly contributes to a difficult-to-reverse cycle of dysfunction.
The author offers a plan for change that brings such schools quickly to the point of stability-the tipping point-by providing a critical mass of experienced teachers. The single most important incentive for teachers and principals, he asserts, is the promise of membership in a competent and committed team-the one thing that offers the very real prospect that they can succeed in these schools.
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| Strand(s): | Incentives |
| Author: | Futernick, K. |
| Related Speaker: | Ken Futernick |
| Related Session: | What Incentives Attract and Retain the Best Teachers in Schools that Need Them Most? |
| URL: | http://www.edfordemocracy.org/tpoint/TP%20Master.pdf |
| Publisher: | California State University, Sacramento |
| Publication Date: | 2002, November |
| Publication City: | Sacramento |
| Publication State: | CA |
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