• The Teacher Excellence Initiative (TEI) in Dallas ISD defines, supports and rewards excellence. Under TEI, effective teachers have the opportunity to advance in salary much more quickly than they would under the traditional salary track. A highly-effective teacher in Dallas ISD has the potential to earn up to $90,000 a year.
• Teacher compensation is directly tied to the impact that teachers have on their students, which is measured in three categories: teacher performance, student achievement and student experience. TEI offers continuous and comprehensive professional development support at every experience level to help teachers grow their abilities to positively impact students.

• Through Uplift Education’s Rewarding Excellence Compensation Program, teachers with exemplary performance are compensated with up to a 6 percent salary increase each year. These raises are determined by Uplift’s point system, wherein teachers receive points for attaining individual outcome- and action-based goals. With this compensation model, teachers are rewarded for their strong performance and growth in the profession and have the opportunity to substantially increase their pay. A few highly-effective teachers at Uplift are even earning over $96,000 a year! Because this compensation model does not impose a ceiling on performance pay raises, these teachers have the potential to keep advancing in salary over the course of their entire careers.
• Because Uplift values teacher performance, they hire most of their new teachers out of teacher preparation programs that have strong clinical teaching and coaching models to prepare candidates for success with urban students: Teach for America, Urban Teachers, Relay and Harvard Teaching Fellows. However, Uplift considers new and experienced candidates from a variety of training programs.

If you want to make an impact on students coming from socioeconomically disadvantaged backgrounds, many districts will reward you for this effort.

For example, Garland, Fort Worth and Richardson ISDs offer a $10,000 stipend to their most effective teachers who are invited to teach at the district’s lowest-performing campuses through the school turnaround program, Accelerating Campus Excellence (ACE).

If you’re a bilingual or STEM-certified teacher, you’re in luck! Due to the shortage of teachers in certain subjects, many districts will offer additional stipends to teachers with certification in these areas.

In the DFW area, districts offer annual stipends ranging from $3,000 to $4,000 for bilingual teachers, and annual stipends ranging from $2,000 to $4,000 for STEM teachers.

The TeachDFW partner districts in Dallas County with listed stipends for STEM or bilingual teachers include Uplift, Dallas, Richardson, Garland, Irving, Duncanville, Cedar Hill, DeSoto, Arlington and Fort Worth. Additionally, special Education teachers often receive a stipend due to shortages.