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Are your middle leaders ready to handle performance-related pay?

The move to performance-related pay has real implications for the ‘squeezed middle’ of the school workforce. Andrea Berkeley advises on how schools can help their middle leaders to meet this new challenge.

 

Like it or not, performance-related pay is here to stay. A new age of accountability in education is emerging not only through efficiency drives but also a renewed determination to tackle educational disadvantage and close the achievement gap.

The question now for schools is how to implement performance-related pay, while maintaining the focus on school aims and preserving the natural collegiality and collaboration of teachers that is essential to the smooth running of a school.

As is the case in many education policy changes or initiatives, it is the “squeezed middle” – the heads of departments and the pastoral team leaders – who are most affected.

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