The goal of phase III is to enhance the quality, effectiveness, and performance of Iowa's teachers by promoting teacher excellence. This will be accomplished through the development of performance-based pay plans and supplemental pay plans requiring additional instructional work assignments which may include specialized training or differential training, or both.
It is the intent of the general assembly that school districts and area education agencies incorporate into their planning for performance-based pay plans and supplemental pay plans, implementation of recommendations from recently issued national and state reports relating to the requirements of the educational system for meeting future educational needs, especially as they relate to the preparation, working conditions, and responsibilities of teachers, including but not limited to assistance to new teachers, development of teachers as instructional leaders in their schools and school districts, using teachers for evaluation and diagnosis of other teachers' techniques, and the implementation of sabbatical leaves. It is also the intent of the general assembly that a performance-based pay plan and supplemental pay plan submitted by a district include a parent involvement policy designed to increase student achievement and self- esteem by bringing home and school into closer relationship and that provides methods by which parents and teachers may cooperate intelligently in the education of children. It is further the intent of the general assembly that real and fundamental change in the educational system must emerge from the school site if the education system is to remain relevant and that plans funded in this program must be an integral part of a comprehensive school district or area education agency effort toward meeting identified district or agency goals or needs.
87 Acts, ch 224, §11; 90 Acts, ch 1141, § 1; 93 Acts, ch 105, § 1
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