A recent paper, released by the Center for American Progress, examines the nature of technical assistance for several prominent performance pay programs in K-12 education. Effective Technical Assistance Principles: Lessons from Three Performance Pay Programs identifies current practices and key principles for the future direction of technical assistance associated with educator compensation reform. Specifically, current and future providers need to:

• Systematically align the goals of performance pay programs with those of the particular education system.
• Address workplace barriers early on that might interfere with sustained application of training.
• Establish feedback mechanisms to know and predict program participants’ needs.
• Provide meaningful training through opportunities to apply learning.

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