Pay for Performance Program
The Pay for Performance system is based on requirements in Florida State Statutes. It is designed to identify outstanding teachers. School-based teachers demonstrating maximum performance in behaviors that enhance instructional effectiveness or instructional impact will qualify for outstanding teacher designation. All tenured and/or non-probationary school-based instructional personnel who are evaluated under a new rubric pursuant to the Empowering Effective Teachers project (EET) will automatically be considered for performance pay under the district's instructional Pay for Performance Plan. Eligibility for Pay for Performance will be determined by the teacher’s final evaluation scores, including all written components, as well as the value added measurement (VAM). Bonuses will be awarded beginning with the highest evaluation
score and will continue to be awarded until all funds are exhausted. Pay for performance shall be a salary supplement of 5% to be paid the following school year based on time worked each pay period.
All tenured and/or non-probationary school-based personnel who remain on the old evaluation system for 2012-2013 (i.e., paper evaluation) who choose to participate must declare their intent to participate each school year. Teachers scoring Outstanding as measured by the spring Instructional Performance Assessment Instrument and who provide a portfolio as indicated in the online handbook, may be eligible for a salary supplement of 5% to be paid the following school year based on time worked each pay period.
The Teacher Performance Pay plan was designed as a joint venture of Hillsborough County Public Schools and the Hillsborough Classroom Teachers Association (CTA). A joint committee of teachers, administrators and union representatives began meeting in 2001 to develop the program.
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