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Guiding Principles

This is a DRAFT of our guiding principles. The committee will discuss and approve the guiding principles at a later date.

The goal of the Total Compensation Review is to develop the best possible human capital system combining monetary, beneficial, developmental and work environment supports.

Committee Vision

A world-class school division with a total compensation system that maximizes educator capacity for student success.

Committee Mission

Within three years, review and provide recommendations to develop, reform, and align the human capital system with school improvement and transformation. Thereafter, conduct follow-on actions for continuous improvement.

Goals of a transformed human capital system ensure that:

  • Every student has an effective teacher in every classroom.
  • Every school has an effective principal in every building.
  • Every department has effective administrators and support-staff.
  • We attract the best and help them to a path of career development.
  • Our teachers find success in the classroom and stay in teaching.
  • Professional learning is developed in a way that works for the individual needs.
  • Teacher teamwork is encouraged to help students succeed.

Committee Objectives:

  • Demonstrate the value of our educators and non-educators by updating the human capital system to best-practice
  • Develop teaching and non-teaching measures that are relevant for professional development and evaluation
  • Identify professional learning policies, programs and practices that help teachers meet the needs of the students
  • Refine our salary and benefits program to one that is more equitable, useful and easily understood
  • Encourage increasing trust and cooperation across the Division

Values. Successful strategic compensation reform follows six basic tenets. We believe our Total Compensation Review must:

  1. Seek systemic reform.
  2. Be done with teachers, not to teachers.
  3. Be organizationally sustainable.
  4. Be financially sustainable.
  5. Sustain a broad base of support in the division and community.
  6. Benefit students.

(Adapted from the Community Training and Assistance Center's "Six Cornerstones of Successful Compensation Reform" at http://www.ctacusa.com/cornerstones.html.)

In order to carry out this task we will:

  • Work with all of our employees to create the best possible system that rewards individual performance and teamwork.
  • Approach this work in a thoughtful, deliberate way.
  • Communicate clearly and regularly about our work among ourselves and community.
  • Think critically yet be open-minded and creative.
  • Help ensure that teachers and principals are given the right foundational supports for success.