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12-62 Annual Report 2000
The Teacher Career Advancement Program enables schools to attract and retain top quality educators by creating a high-paying career track for master teachers and by increasing the opportunities for mid-career professionals, parents, business people and volunteers to share teaching responsibilities.
Through the T-CAP grant, elementary and high schools are encouraged to design professional and salary advancement for master teachers and mid-career professionals by providing multiple career paths and expanding roles for teachers. Schools are expected to work closely with teacher's unions to create multi-tiered staffing models, including part-time parent volunteers, science and mathematics professionals, job sharing, para-professional "learning guides," entry-level "associate teachers," experienced "mentor teachers," and elite "master teachers" who would work year-round.
As part of T-CAP, schools will be able to create a high-paying career track for master teachers, in which master teachers could ultimately earn a compensation package of $80,000 to $100,000 a year. Under the current salary and career ladder for teachers, which often caps after 30 years in teaching, teachers typically reach the current maximum on local salary scales (approximately $65,000 a year).
Lowell High School, one of the 10 pilot T-CAP schools, will use the planning grant to focus on recruitment, compensation, and career development in support of beginning teachers. The school administration would like to develop a plan to give bonuses to school staff who recommend individuals who eventually become teachers at the school. Another part of their plan is to investigate job sharing opportunities and recruitment of mid-career professionals from local industry.
The Teacher Career Advancement Program is endorsed by the Milken Family Foundation, which announced a model for elementary and high schools at a national conference in Los Angeles in June.
T-CAP Participating Schools
- Cambridge Public Schools, Health Professions High School
- Carlisle Public Schools
- City on a Hill Charter School
- Lawrence Public Schools, Lawrence High School
- Lee Tyringhan School Union
- Lowell Public Schools, Lowell High School
- Martha's Vineyard Public Schools, Oak Bluffs Elementary School
- Melrose Public Schools, Melrose High School
- Montachusett Regional Vocational Technical School
- New Bedford Public Schools, Horace Mann Charter School
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