With a new teacher contract signed and put to bed, Oak Park and River Forest High School is turning its attention to how to best compensate its administrators.
The school will contract with an outside firm to come up with a compensation philosophy for administrators. The philosophy will be based on performance based evaluations and compensation. OPRF will contract with consulting firm Hay Group to develop the philosophy. Based in Philadelphia, the firm has offices in Chicago and other cities in the United States and oversees.
The D200 school board and administration will work over the summer with the firm, pulling in available OPRF staff to work on the project, said Supt. Steven Isoye. That work will involve talking with and surveying school staff, Isoye said, noting that developing such a philosophy was a goal of the school board.
Racial equity and how to compensate administrators for achieving that will be built into the philosophy. Isoye said he’ll work with the firm on folding the equity piece into their work. The D200 school board approved going forward with Hay Group on May 22.
The board was generally supportive of pursuing a pay philosophy for administrators, but expressed concerns about what that would look like and how it’ll play out in the school. How such a philosophy is implemented successfully in schools and the hurdles to achieving that was among board members’ concerns.
Racial equity, however, was an important component many members wanted included.