A Bonus for Team Members Who Persist
Research has proved it: when students have stable relationships with adult mentors, they do better socially, academically, and emotionally123. We want to support our students and reward the staff who create that stability by persisting for a full school year, so we have instituted new milestone bonuses!
Any PLs/IAs hired before July 1st will be eligible for the end of year bonus; the size of the bonus increases the longer you stay with Arc (see chart below). In addition to the annual bonus, we have a few special bonuses for this school year to help kick off the new program:
- Any new PLs/IAs who were hired this summer (July 1st to August 12th) and stay until the end of December will be eligible for a special Fall Hire Bonus.
- Any new PLs/IAs who will be hired this fall (August 13th to December 31st) and stay until the end of the school year will be eligible for a special Spring Hire Bonus.
- And last but not least, we have a cohort of special 5+ year staff who get an immediate bonus this August, recognizing their amazing efforts to persist and create stability for students.
The full dates are laid out below:
- Hill & Jones (2018). A teacher who knows me: The academic benefits of repeat student-teacher matches. Economics of Education Review, 64, 1–12. ↩︎
- Hwang, Kisida, & Koedel (2021). A familiar face: Student-teacher rematches and student achievement. Economics of Education Review, 85. ↩︎
- Pierce, K. M., Bolt, D. M., & Vandell, D. L. (2010). Specific Features of After-School Program Quality: Associations with Children’s Functioning in Middle Childhood. American Journal of Community Psychology, 45(3–4), 381–393. ↩︎