ProComp Community Forum Oct. 28 Examines Progress In Improving Teacher Compensation
As Denver Public Schools prepares to implement its ground-breaking new teacher compensation system, the ProComp Community Forum will hear from early leaders in the effort from 7:45 to 9 a.m. Friday, Oct. 28 at the Career Education Center Middle College of Denver, 2650 Eliot St. in northwest Denver.
After years of development, ProComp will begin operation in January if the mill levy increase is approved by voters on Nov. 1. Denver Board of Education President Les Woodward and Becky Wissink, former president of the Denver Classroom Teachers Association, will discuss how the pay plan evolved from the Pay for Performance Pilot in 1999 to ProComp today. They will describe how the original plan to replace the traditional salary schedule with raises for increased student achievement developed into a comprehensive compensation system that is receiving national attention.
The program is free and the public is invited to attend. Please RSVP to Becky Martinez at beckmartinez77@aol.com or call 303-221-1421
ProComp (the Professional Compensation System for Teachers) rewards teachers with salary increases for improved student performance and with incentive bonuses that encourage talented professionals to work in schools and assignments with the greatest needs. ProComp also will help attract and retain top quality teachers by allowing them to have more direct control of their careers, with options that reward teachers for increased knowledge and skills and by offering salary increases for satisfactory professional evaluations.
Since approval of ProComp by Denver teachers and the Board of Education in 2004, work groups has been refining details and testing parts of the system. The final step will be the approval of a $25 million mill levy by Denver voters to finance the system.
The community forum is a meeting of community members interested in public schools and educational excellence in Denver. Launched in August 2001, the forum's leadership has been anchored by members of the Denver Rotary Club, the League of Women Voters and other education and community leaders who would like to become more knowledgeable about the teacher compensation plan.
For more information, please contact the DPS Communications Office, 720-423-3414.