Education Resource Strategies

Introduction
Choose Your Scenario
Model District Cost Drivers

Elementary Schools
Class Size and Planning Time
Small Group Support
Individual Tutoring
Staffing Strategies

Secondary Schools
Class Size and Scheduling
Staffing Strategies

Professional Development
School-based PD
Individual Careers/Other PD

Compensation and Time
Teacher Compensation
Instructional Time

Reports and Results
Budget Summary
Per Pupil Costs

The Individual Careers/Other Professional Development page allows you to explore different types of support a district can provide to new teachers, to identify and analyze opportunities for advancement for experienced teachers and to understand how these levers affect district costs and other measures. For example:

Based on the anticipated number of new hires, how many mentors will be required?
To what extent do new teachers benefit from reduced class size?
What contracted professional development exists?

Your base case data is shown below in the gray fields. You may enter data into the yellow redesigned fields to identify the effects that various combinations of these levers have on the district budget.



your district's new teacher mentoring model	base case	redesigned


total number of full-time new teacher mentors in district
average number of new teachers per full-time mentor
percent of new teachers receiving help from full-time mentors

total number of part-time new teacher mentors in district
average number of new teachers per part-time mentor
percent of new teachers receiving help from part-time mentors

total number of volunteer/informal new mentors in district
average number of new teachers per volunteer/informal mentor
percent of new teachers receiving help from volunteer/informal mentors

reduced class size for new teachers	base case	redesigned

number of schools with reduced class sizes for new teachers
average class size for new teachers in these schools
additional teachers needed to support smaller class sizes



contracted pd time	base case	redesigned

number of paid days per year
number of instructional days per year
total non-teaching days per year

total contract days per year for district-level pd
total contract days per year for school-level pd
total non-teaching, non-pd days per year

cost per day for pd days

	base case	redesigned	difference
school system budget

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