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Freeman, Robert R.; Grant, Franklin D. – American School Board Journal, 1987
Discusses improving attendance of staff and administrators by providing various financial and recognition-oriented incentives including savings bonds, plaques, and a year-end trophy. Rewards for perfect and near-perfect attendance resulted in a 16 percent improvement in total staff attendance and improvement in 90 percent of individual schools.…
Descriptors: Attendance Patterns, Compensation (Remuneration), Goal Orientation, Incentives
Winborne, Claiborne R.; Stainback, George H. – American School Board Journal, 1984
A Virginia district's voluntary teacher incentive program is credited with rewarding excellent performance, encouraging teacher attendance, and being simple to administer. Requirements include few absences, superior teaching evaluations by principal, good standardized test scores, successful evaluation by outside experts, and completion of course…
Descriptors: Career Ladders, Educational Administration, Elementary Secondary Education, Incentives
Wright, Linus – Spectrum, 1986
A Dallas, Texas, districtwide campus incentive pay plan rewarded all personnel in schools that ranked in the top quartile of schools exceeding achievement expectations and that met student and teacher attendance requirements. Program goals were achieved, suggestions for improvement noted, and future plans include campus and individual incentive…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Average Daily Attendance, Compensation (Remuneration), Elementary Secondary Education
Shaw, Ira M. – 1985
Before school districts and administrators' associations begin negotiations, seven proposals that provide the basis upon which adversaries can discuss the proposal's merits must be considered. (1) Establish language that would permit an administrator to teach one period a day (month or week). This proposal allows substitution in the event of…
Descriptors: Administrator Evaluation, Board of Education Policy, Collective Bargaining, Elementary Secondary Education
Download full textUehara, Denise L. – 1999
This report makes policy implementers and educators aware of the importance of work attendance and its relation to student outcomes. It also encourages policymakers to better implement and supplement existing policies through different strategy options. The focus is on the Pacific region. Rather than recommending a punitive approach, the report…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cultural Differences, Cultural Influences, Educational Policy
White, William D. – 1987
This report explores effects of a year-round schedule on pupil and teacher attendance in the Jefferson County, Colorado, School District. Information is drawn from a 1977 district study and from interviews with teachers and principals. Comparison of data on attendance before the program and after its first year found that attendance increased in…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Attendance, Attendance Patterns, Cost Effectiveness
