1.   At least eight states have already taken action to support or reward teachers who seek national board certification.

2.   But her office supports changes in state policy to reward teachers more for improving skills in the subjects they teach.

3.   Good teachers should be rewarded.

4.   He also said the states must find better ways to reward good teachers and easier ways to fire incompetent ones.

5.   He would also reward successful teachers with higher salaries.

6.   In addition, the educators hope that states and local school districts will reward these teachers with higher pay and greater responsibilities.

7.   It rewards teachers for performance, and measures that performance not by student test results but by efforts at thorough evaluation of teacher skills.

8.   People agree that good teachers should be rewarded and bad teachers should be brought up to speed or removed.

9.   Successful schools could be freed from certain state regulations, he said, or teachers could be rewarded in nonmonetary ways.

10.   Teachers would be rewarded on a statewide standard that measures student progress, achievement, parent satisfaction and professional development.