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Using a multisite qualitative design, the research relies primarily on interviews and public documents, especially collective bargaining agreements and district policies. Findings highlight performance-pay implementation as complex for leaders, and identify actions that may support further exploration. 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Quinn, Ph.D.  \nPublic Policy Associates, Inc.  \nC. Suzanne Klein, Ph.D.  \nOakland University  \nThis study explored how district leaders in three Michigan school districts reacted to a stateinduced policy calling for district-implemented performance-pay for teachers in response to Race to the Top (RttT) in 2010. The study is positioned at the intersection of reform efforts and policy implementation in practice. Using a multisite qualitative approach, this study examined (primarily through interviews and document analysis) how local leaders responded to and helped shape state law. The study analyzed interview transcripts as well as publicly available documents—primarily collective bargaining agreements and district provided policies. The wideranging findings presented in this study illuminated what was already known about the topic: that implementing teacher compensation reforms is a complex, complicated, and thought-provoking enterprise for district leaders. The findings point toward successful actions taken by district leaders that warrant further exploration and consideration.  \nKeywords: Pay for performance, teacher evaluations, incentives, and Race to the Top  \nEducation Leadership Review of Doctoral Research, Vol. 7. Fall/Winter 2019  \nISSN: 1532-0723  \n© 2019 International Council of Professors of Educational Leadership.  \nThis manuscript may not be used commercially or edited. When quoting portions of this text, full attribution to the author/s is required.  \nThe overarching purpose of this study was to understand how district leaders in three Michigan school districts understood and shaped a federally preferred, state-induced policy reform. At the  \ntime of this study, Michigan was one of only six states (the others included Florida, Hawaii, Indiana, Louisiana, and Utah) that had required performance-based pay be part of teacher compensation (Bates, 2016) . This paper grappled with an important issue in the field of policymaking: school districts struggling to implement differentiated pay for teachers at the sametime as teacher evaluation reform. For practicing district leaders, understanding the realities of performance-pay policies is a challenging endeavor and deservedly merits more attention in the research literature.  \nDistrict leaders must be able to navigate the policy process from issue identification through implementation and eventually evaluation for continuous improvement (Fowler, 2009) . The science of policy implementation has become a leading topic for school district leaders who face a constant pull of mandates at multiple levels—federal, state, and local (Albers & Pattuwage, 2017; Honig, 2006; Lyon, et al., 2018; Odden, 1991; Young & Lewis, 2015) . The key question leaders face with regards to any policy change is: what happens between the making of that policy and implementation?  \nWithout salary differentials, school district leaders, researchers, and policymakers have argued that recruiting and retaining teachers in hard-to-staff positions and in shortage subject areas (e.g., math, science, and special education) is sometimes a struggle. This paper specifically attends to how three school districts’ leaders navigated this problem. After Race to the Top (RttT) in 2010, multiple state-level teacher policy changes were simultaneously directed at school district leaders in Michigan, who were responsible for realization of these policies in a changing and uncertain political context. Included among the changes made at the time was teacher compensation reform (Public Act or PA 205 of 2010 amended MCL section 380.1250 of 1976) .  \nDistrict leaders’ decision-making processes, their attitudinal reaction related to changes in teachers’ pay for job performance, and challenges faced by districts leaders were all tackled in a larger study that was part of a dissertation with a concentration in educational leadership","cbCaiup3Xh9VafRY","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiup3Xh9VafRY","pdf",250608,15,"English","# Background\n# Policy Implementation and Decision-Making\n## District responses to performance-pay\n## Evaluation reform pressures\n# Findings and Implications","[{\"question\":\"Why is performance-pay implementation described as challenging for district leaders?\",\"answer\":\"The paper emphasizes that districts had to adopt differentiated teacher pay while also managing teacher evaluation reform under shifting and uncertain political conditions, making the implementation complex.\"}]","Pay-for-Performance in Three Michigan School Districts - Lessons for Decision Makers | PDF",1792093720,38]