Teacher's Pay Conversations Project

Background for the Project:

Newspaper (2023) articles report that Hawaii's teachers average $60,051.00 per year and the superintendant receives $104,644.00 ($50.31/per hour), yet for the past five decades colledge freshman have required remedial courses to learn when their K-12 teachers failed to communicate.  This difference is a powerful communication, a non-verbalized acknowledgment between graduates and teachers, one that's not producing the results we say we want. Inappropriate acknowledgment produces less than desirable results.

The fact that the inequity persists reveals a breakdown in . . . supportive communication. The premise being—when communication takes place everyone feels good upon completion. Teachers have learned to accept less, not only with their pay, but from their students. Every few years teachers submit themselves to the humiliating trauma of begging for pay raises and funding, eventually resorting to threats or strikes because they have not learned how to produce the desired result otherwise.

Part of what's missing in the teacher-student-parent-graduate-legislator communication model is Leadership Training which includes an acknowledgment process. Appropriate and accurate acknowledgment always produces the desired results.

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