Professional Pathways for Teachers
Compensation and Opt-in Process 2018-2019
Background:
The Professional Pathways for Teachers creates a new human capital system that blends appraisal, compensation, and professional development to professionalize teaching. The PPfT Appraisal system went district-wide in the 16-17 school year and the PPfT compensation system is being phased in over 4 years. The system was designed collaboratively with Austin Independent School District, Education Austin, and American Federation of Teachers (AFT).
PPfT only applies to teachers; a teacher is defined as directly instructing students 50% or more of the instructional day and whose title is teacher in the HR system.
Compensation Framework:
Austin ISD has created a compensation framework that gives teachers ownership of their careers and salary. The AISD compensation system is about teacher ownership, teacher choice, and teacher development. Teachers will be able to engage in personalized and collaborative professional development and be rewarded for their high quality teaching. The entire PPfT system is about empowering and developing teachers.
PPfT will also create leadership opportunities for teachers that will allow them to stay in the classroom and improve their practice without tying it to a specific role. The leadership pathways will allow teachers to pursue areas of interest to become leaders on their campus and throughout the district. When a teacher completes a specific leadership pathway, they would be credentialed in that area, and they will be able to pursue multiple leadership pathways credentials over their career.
The compensation framework is a base-building system meaning it provides permanent pay increases to the employee’s regular salary. This new system will not impact current stipends.
The framework builds the base through a point system. Teachers will earn professional points each year. Points are cumulative and determine the amount of the base increase. Teachers can earn points from four elements: Current Year of Service, Appraisal, Professional Development Unit, and Leadership Pathways.
Base Salary Increases
For example, once a teacher earns 5 points, the teacher will receive a $500 increase to the base salary. Once the teacher earns an additional 5 points for a total of 10 points, the teacher will earn another $750 increase. The next increase would come at 20 points. The amount associated with the points is only earned once but the base increase is permanent.
Enhanced Compensation Campuses
Below is the list of campuses for the 2018-2019 school year.
Opt-In Process
For the 2018-2019 school year, current AISD teachers will be able to sign-up to enroll in the new compensation system. Approximately 1000 current teachers will be able to enter the system and will be selected based on number of years in AISD. Those selected will enter the system at their current base salary. Teachers who opted-in for the 2016-2017 or 2017-2018 school years do not need to opt-in again. The opt-in period will be open from March 5 - March 30 and teachers will be notified by April 6th of their status. Teachers who sign-up after the March 30th deadline will not be considered for the new system.
There is a four year phase-in process and this is year three. All teachers will be in the system by 2019-2020.
Please click the button below to sign-up to be eligible to enter the system for the 2018-2019 school year.
Additional Information
For questions, please contact us at ppft@austinisd.org or 512-414-9562 or visit our website at http://www.austinisd.org/ppft.
PPfT Compensation
Email: PPFT@austinisd.org
Website: http://www.austinisd.org/ppft
Phone: 512-414-9562