I found the information regarding the salary schedules and forms of incentive pay to be very interesting. The positions within the program which I coordinate are funded through grants at the Regional Office of Education. Therefore, we do not have a salary schedule for personnel. Rather, we try to base the salaries upon what is competitive regionally for certified teaching positions. We have, however, looked into merit pay and incentive pay as viable options for our program in the past. Yet, we did not incorporate either of these models for determining salaries for teachers for a variety of reasons. Primarily, the reason was budgetary.

Through the discussions in class, I now have additional information that could be very useful to us in order to examine in further detail what the pros and cons are for incorporating these models for staff salaries. I am not certain that there will be any changes made to our current policies and practices upon salaries. Yet, the aspects shared will help us to make more informed decisions regarding the determination of annual salaries.