1. R3 – Recruiting, Retaining, Rewarding Excellent Educators for the Success of Every Child, Every Day
Pitt County Schools, NC

2. Purpose By the end of the presentation, participants will:
Understand how the components of R3 work together to support teachers and students in Pitt County Schools
Identify similar program aspects to empower collaboration between PCS and themselves
Provide feedback and suggestions to PCS personnel on program implementation
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3. Program Overview: Goals
Recruit effective teachers to our classrooms
Retain effective, experienced teachers in the classroom
Decrease teacher turnover by supporting and retaining young teachers
Increase the pay and expand the influence of highly effective teachers
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4. Program Overview: Assumptions
Teachers need and desire Autonomy, Purpose, and Mastery (Pink, 2011)
Autonomy is achieved by being trusted to make an informed choice to take initiative within a safe, collaborative environment
Purpose is found in addressing significant challenges impacting student learning with practical solutions
Mastery is developed through collaborative action research, high quality training, and support through coaching
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5. Program Components Key BT Teacher Leadership Institute
Career Pathways and Performance Based Compensation
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6. How do you all plan to address the disparity in access to qualified teachers in your TIF schools?
Teachers leave for many reasons, but in our work with teacher’s we’ve identified two primary ones we believe are important and we can address: Influence and Compensation
Hide needs schools get more access to advanced roles that are funded
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7. Instructional Coaches Advanced Teaching Roles (Career Pathways)
Influence
Instructional Coaches
Advanced Teaching Roles (Career Pathways)
Key BT
TLI
Compensation
Beginning Teachers
Professional Teachers
The primary way we’re looking to bring staff to our neediest schools (and to be fair almost every school is classified as needy) we are implementing a career pathways model to offer advanced teaching roles for teachers – roles that allow them to have increased influence and receive increased compensation as a reward for their work and achievement
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8. Targeting High-Need Schools
178 teachers in ATR placements through TIF in high-needs schools this year
Additional positions are allotted for future years
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9. Questions & Suggestions
Grab an index card
On one side write “Questions” and the other side right “Suggestions”
Identify some specific questions you may have for this section
Identify suggestions for us to:
Think about
Try
People to reach out to (including yourself)
So the project can be more successful
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10. Describe the direct correlations to how the pathways will impact and improve teaching and learning in not only individual classrooms but through collaboration, which will extend effective teachers’ influence to reach multiple classes across the system.
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17. Facilitating TeachersCT
Problem of Practice
Student “Reaches”
25 Students
Now indirectly with 100 students
Teacher Impact
Started with 1 reflective teacher
Now a team of reflective teachers learning collaboratively to improve a specific practice FT CT CT

18. Multi-Classroom Teacher
Co-Teacher #1
Student “Reaches”
25 Students
Now directly with 75 students
Teacher Impact
Directly supporting 3 teachers
Collaborative 4 are growing
Multi-Classroom Teacher
Co-Teacher #3
Co-Teacher #2
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19. Questions & Suggestions
Grab an index card
On one side write “Questions” and the other side right “Suggestions”
Identify some specific questions you may have for this section
Identify suggestions for us to:
Think about
Try
People to reach out to (including yourself)
So the project can be more successful
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20. What local universities are you partnering with and what support and training are they providing?
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21. Partnerships & Resources
University Partnerships
East Carolina University
Co-Teaching
NC State University (Indirect)
UNC Chapel Hill (Indirect)
Other Training & Support
Center for Leadership Studies
Situational Leadership
Center for Creative Leadership
360-Degree Leadership Assessments
Center for Teaching Quality
Teacher Leader Competencies Rubric
Thinking Collaborative
Cognitive Coaching & Adaptive Schools
Dale Carnegie & Associates
Leadership Training & Consultation
Program Evaluator - TBD
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22. Questions & Suggestions
Grab an index card
On one side write “Questions” and the other side right “Suggestions”
Identify some specific questions you may have for this section
Identify suggestions for us to:
Think about
Try
People to reach out to (including yourself)
So the project can be more successful
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23. How are the laws enacted by the state’s governing body, which modifies teacher compensation to focus on including performance based measures in the teacher evaluation system helping and hindering your project?
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24. State Legislative & Policy Impacts
Alignment
Class Size Waiver for districts participating in an Advanced Teaching Roles Pilot program (allows for flexibility in designing career pathway roles)
6 Districts in NC are involved in the pilot
We are the only district in that pilot and in TIF
State is adding (and paying for) performance based bonuses for some teachers (helps sustainability down the road)
State has state-wide teacher evaluation rubric and system
State has a state-wide student data management system
Misalignment
Elimination of some state assessments means more teachers will NOT have value-added scores (EVAAS)
EVAAS is used to help qualify teachers for ATR positions
EVAAS is used as one indicator for performance based pay
Cuts to K-16 budgets have reduced the candidate pool for effective teachers (50% increase in the percentage of new hires that are lateral entry teachers since 2014)
When we look at state legislative changes and policies we see some that align with our goals and program, thereby making our job easier, and we also are experiencing some that are not aligned and they are creating barriers we need to address.
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25. Questions & Suggestions
Grab an index card
On one side write “Questions” and the other side right “Suggestions”
Identify some specific questions you may have for this section
Identify suggestions for us to:
Think about
Try
People to reach out to (including yourself)
So the project can be more successful
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26. “Train people well enough so they can leave, treat them well enough so they don’t want to.”
- Sir Richard Branson
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