I just saw a posting for a teaching job at a new charter school in New York. The school, TEP, The Equity Project Charter School, has a three pronged strategy to attract and retain master teachers--Rigorous qualifications, redefined expectations, and revolutionary compensation.

This caught my attention, all levels of attention: Could I move to New York? What would a school make me do to earn $125,000 a year? How much more could I work than those first years at Ascend, when we worked 80 hour weeks? And then: Wow, what will this school be like? Will they prove that it all comes down to that person in the room, and to paying that person well?

I'm staying in Oakland but looking forward to seeing what happens at TEP.