1. Consider the elements of designing an important pay-for-performance plan and relate them to the challenge of designing a pay-for-performance plan for teachers.
2. Describe how you would develop a pay-for-performance plan and its basic structure?
3. Discuss the pitfalls with the pay-for-performance plan discussed in the case and discuss the strengths and weaknesses of the plan you proposed in question 2.
**Supplemental Reading**
Special Topic: Pay for Performance, November, 2009.
Article from Christian Science Monitory, July 5, 2011.
Sol Stern, "Public-School Children Cheated by Perverse Performance Pay Standards," Daily Beast, April 1, 2013.