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Teacher Incentive Fund

Learn about the Teacher Incentive Fund - a program that awarded $1.8 billion for 131 grants over 2006-2012 to assess educators, including student growth, and implement pay-for-performance systems. Discover its history, guiding principles, and impact on teacher effectiveness. Explore the cohorts, competitions, and grantees involved in this initiative that aims to improve education quality nationwide.

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Teacher Incentive Fund

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  1. Teacher Incentive Fund

  2. Teacher Incentive Fund Background • 2006 to 2012: approx. $1.8 billion awarded for 131 TIF grants (4 cohorts) • LEAs, SEAs*, non-profits* (*partnering with LEAs) • Purpose: to evaluate educators based on a multiple measure evaluation system, including student growth and design a pay-for-performance bonus or compensation system that rewards effective and highly effective teachers • 2010 and 2012 the grants included career ladder options

  3. Teacher Incentive Fund History 33 Teacher Incentive Fund (TIF) grantees in first two cohorts: • Cohort 1 (2006) = 15; Cohort 2 (2007) = 18. Cohort 3 (2010): • Competition held under a new NFP. • FY10 allocation $303,829,939, ARRA allocation $143,677,651. • Two Competitions: Main and Evaluation. • 51 main TIF grantees and 11 evaluation TIF grantees. Cohort 4 (2012): • Competition held under a new NFP. • FY12 allocation: $299,443,000 • Two Competitions: General and STEM • 29 General TIF grantees and 6 STEM TIF grantees.

  4. TIF 4 Guiding Principles • Improve teacher and principal effectiveness by • attracting and retaining effective educators. • Improving professional development and support for educators • Increase sustainability and impactby embedding performance-based compensation systems (PBCS) into LEA-wide human capital management systems (HCMS). • Increase flexibility to tailor PBCS to local context. • Improve the effectiveness of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) teaching and learning.

  5. 37 States Served by TIF 1-4 Funds* * Fiscal agents are not necessarily based in the states they serve.

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