Talent Transfer Initiative (TTI): Providing Bonuses to High-Performing Teachers to Transfer to Low-Performing Schools

Talent Transfer Initiative (TTI) is a program that enables principals of low-performing schools to provide bonuses to high-performing teachers when they transfer to and stay in the low-performing schools. The program aims to improve student achievement by attracting and retaining effective teachers in low-performing schools. The program involves offering bonuses of up to $20,000 over two years to high-performing teachers who transfer to low-performing schools and stay for at least two years. Principals are given the opportunity to fill vacant teaching positions within a teacher team using TTI funds, and teachers are considered highly effective and eligible to participate if they taught a class in grades 3-8 and were in the top 20% in their district on student test score growth.