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On how to separate the good teachers...

- Create an incentive structure that rewards ability, not tenure or compliance with unions. Don't include, or minimize, an automatic tenure elevator beyond COLAs.
- Allow variation in pay and bonuses at the individual level.
- Focus key performance indicators on both inputs to teaching (e.g. continuing education credits in teachable subjects, new curriculum development, etc.) and outputs (test scores, change in student rankings year over year)
- Use 360 degree evaluations that incorporate at least a small random sample of parents and students
- Incorporate cameras into classrooms to facilitate random observation by principal and school psychologist...an idea that I haven't fully decided I like, but it would reduce agency problems