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Mayor Bob Corker announces 18 new teachers, 3 new principals and 8 new assistant principals will receive bonuses through CEA initiative
 5/14/200457 high performing educators now in place in high priority schools
Chattanooga, TN – Mayor Bob Corker today introduced 18 new high performing teachers, 3 new principals and 8 new assistant principals who are eligible to take advantage of the incentives offered by the Community Education Alliance. The prestigious high performing designation is awarded to teachers making a difference in the community’s nine high priority urban elementary schools. Those high priority elementary schools are Calvin Donaldson Elementary, Clifton Hills Elementary, East Lake Elementary, East Side Elementary, Hardy Elementary, Hillcrest Elementary, Howard Elementary, Orchard Knob Elementary and Woodmore Elementary. Mayor Corker said, “As a result of the tremendous focus our community has directed towards the city’s high priority elementary schools, 57 of the system’s most effective educators are driving up achievement in these great schools. The small investment that we have made toward this incentive program has yielded results beyond our expectations. Test scores are up and the lives of the children in these schools are being changed.” Formed soon after Mayor Corker took office, the Community Education Alliance, is an advisory group, composed of some of the area’s most successful leaders in business. The efforts of the CEA work in concert with the Benwood Initiative which has placed significant resources in raising achievement in these schools which had been on the State’s on-notice list. An incentive plan, which the group introduced in the spring of 2002, calls for providing $5,000- $10,000 cash bonuses; a housing incentive offered through Chattanooga Neighborhood Enterprise, the Lyndhurst Foundation and the Benwood Foundation; a free Master’s Degree through the Osborne Foundation; and free legal assistance through the Chattanooga Bar Association, for high performing teachers already teaching at the nine high priority schools or for those high performing teachers who are recruited to those schools. It also provides incentives for principals in the high priority schools whose schools achieve high performance. “The credit for the transformation that is occurring in these schools goes to the teachers, principals, assistant principals and staff whose dedication day in and day out is literally changing the future of the children they serve.” In this recruiting year, 18 teachers, either recruited to or remaining in one of the high priority schools were named high performing teachers. The teachers participating in the program this year and the school in which they will teach are as follows:
In addition, because of high test scores throughout their schools, a total of six principals have been deemed high performing, eight assistant principals have reached the designation and all will receive bonuses through the program. Those principals are:
The Assistant Principals who are part of the program are:
Finally, because of outstanding scores, the principal, assistant principal and teachers at four schools received team bonuses. Every eligible faculty member received the bonuses at the following schools:
For more information, contact Todd Womack, Communications Director, at 423-757-5168. A summary of TCAP test results for CEA schools Hamilton County’s Tennessee Comprehensive Assessment Program (TCAP) results show that all grade levels over a three-year average increased in all subject areas for the second year in a row. Hamilton County students scored above the national average in reading, language and math. NOTE: The subject areas tested in grades 3-8 are reading, language, math, science and social studies. TCAP scores are measured in NCE (Normal Curve Equivalent) levels. The NCE is a converted score that ranks students in a range from 1 to 99. The national average is 50. The NCE measures student gains and allows school systems to combine grade levels and test years to reach an average score. Benwood Schools showed extraordinary gains in every subject area. TCAP results show that scores from 2001 to 2003 increased by:
Individual school highlights as compared to 2002 figures show that:
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