Teacher Stipends

[ebarker]

Given - that the one of the largest, if not the 1st, impediment to institutionalizing co-curricular STEM programs like FIRST is the lack of teacher incentive, there are people working to resolve this issue.

QUESTION(s):

a) does your local or state school district provide stipends

b) if so what are the parameters, hour worked, stipend paid, state or local funding ?

I'm not interested in data for non-teachers.

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[lmedina]

Clear Creek ISD offers a stipend to teachers who work with the district robotics program. The funds come out of our local funds and are paid to the staff member as a one time lump sum.
The amounts differ by level and are per campus not per teacher.
Elementary stipend $150.00

FIRST LEGO League Coaches

Intermediate Stipend $300

BEST and VEX Coaches

High School Stipend (FIRST, VEX and BEST) $1,500.00

Sponsors for a minimum of two programs

Please feel free to contact me if you need any more information.

[AdamHeard]

Originally Posted by lmedina

Clear Creek ISD offers a stipend to teachers who work with the district robotics program. The funds come out of our local funds and are paid to the staff member as a one time lump sum.
The amounts differ by level and are per campus not per teacher.
Elementary stipend $150.00

FIRST LEGO League Coaches

Intermediate Stipend $300

BEST and VEX Coaches

High School Stipend (FIRST, VEX and BEST) $1,500.00

Sponsors for a minimum of two programs

Please feel free to contact me if you need any more information.

These high school numbers match what our district used to do (we no longer have a teacher directly involved since this last season). I believe this was per semester as well.

[Tyler Olds]

Wave has established a couple of different ways of providing a stipend for teachers. We run our program through the Recreational Department but in Oshkosh it is controlled by the school district.

We have two positions through the Recreational Department:

Lego League Advisor (Responsible for helping coordinate the Oshkosh FLL program and being the go to person for coaches): .04 position of base teacher salary = $1,312.00

Click here to read the Lego League Advisor Job Description

Wave Robotics Advisor (Responsible for all teacher related matters and other matters) for the Wave Robotics program: .08 position of base teacher salary = $2624.00

Click here to read the Wave Robotics Advisor Job Description

Through the school district we have five FLL coach positions, one for each middle school. The funds from these positions came from the Destination Imagination positions that were vacant and had little to no chance of being filled. Each coach receives $784.30

Click here to read the FLL coaches job description.

Our elementary schools are not funded by the school district for FLL. However we have two elementary schools that have created stipends for the $784.30 amount through their own personal school accounts. Also one of our middle schools have provided an extra stipend for a second coach out of their own funding.

All positions require the applicant to have a Wisconsin certified teachers license.

[davidthefat]

As far as I know, our teacher, who is the head mentor, is not compensated for anything. Actually, before our team got active on sponsors and fundraising, a lot of the funding came out of his own pocket.

[JamesCH95]

Our teacher/mentor receives a $1500 stipend as a "team coach" which she uses to help fund the team.

[DonRotolo]

All our teacher-mentor-coaches receive stipends from our district. I do not know the amount - low four figures certainly, about the same as a club mentor. It is funded locally

Of course, it doesn't even come close to compensating for actual hours worked.

I do not know if there is a certain minimum commitment required

Everyone else is an unpaid volunteer.

[sanddrag]

Teacher stipends for FRC? Sign me up!

[ebarker]

Question: Please make suggestions as to the stipend amounts, based on the following discussion.

Our team has worked for at least two years on this issue of institutionalizing these programs. It has led us to briefings to the Congressional Robotics Caucus, U.S. Senators, U.S. Congressmen, state and local politicians including the Governor, state school superintendent, and so on and so forth.

What we are working on right now is a highly specific proposal to attempt to introduce into the budget process.

We are working on a model for FLL, FTC/VEX, and FRC programs. For each program, there needs to be at least two items. a) stipend amount, b) time/effort requirements for the teachers to fulfill. We will initially introduce this into the Cobb School District. I'm not suggesting we are going to get anywhere with this in the near future, but eventually this has to be done. That's about all there is to that, IMHO.

For a comparative analysis, the stipends for other CCSD programs are listed in these tables.

Academic Supplements

Athletic Supplements - Asst Coaches

Athletic Supplements - Head Coaches

JROTC Supplements

Middle School Intramural Supplements

Music Supplements

We also want to build a model that has a) one teacher, and b) two teachers.

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[Retired Starman]

Before retiring from the school district, one of my duties was to run the debate program in our middle and high schools. We paid a stipend to debate coaches, though not very much. I think it was about $450 per semester for middle school, maybe as much as $750-1000 per semester for high school. This was not much money for the hours involved since most debate teams practice every afternoon and compete monthly (middle school) or weekly (high school). For the high school's at least, this usually involved an overnight trip.

Those teachers worked very hard for the little money they got. But it was very important to them to be recognized monetarily by the school system for their contribution small though the stipend was.

A little money can buy a LOT of hard work and, more importantly, good will.

Dr. Bob

[Chris is me]

Teachers get a $250 stipend from Shaker High School. I think both of them just give the money to the team.