This challenge scenario depicts six individuals from a district leadership team discussing the design of a performance award program. This scenario highlights:

1. A Chief Academic Officer’s desire to strategically approach a performance award program in order for it to help the district achieve it’s broader instructional goals
2. A High School Principal’s insistence that all teachers and principals be included in the performance award program
3. A Regional Educational Service Center Leader’s desire to help the district draw upon existing models of performance award programs across the state and nation
4. A Human Resource Director’s interest in using this program as a means of strengthening the degree of alignment between the district’s goals and resources
5. A Director of Data and Information Systems desire to ensure the district has the data capacity to support a performance award program
6. A Director of Communications urging that the district engage key stakeholders and craft a targeted communication plan for the performance award program