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Bonuses

Florida offers two separate bonuses, the salary bonus and the mentoring bonus, to those teachers who achieve National Board Certification. Each bonus is equal to 10% of the previous year’s state-wide average teachers salary, plus the employer’s share of FICA and retirement.

District DHETP contacts verify the eligibility of each National Board Certified Teacher and request disbursement of funds from the State. Once the funds are received, they are distributed to each eligible NBCT by the district finance office.

To be eligible to receive the salary bonus, a teacher must:

  1. Hold a valid NBPTS certificate or notice of certificate award;
  2. Be currently employed as full-time instructional personnel within the meaning of Section 1012.01(a)-(c), F.S., as reflected by contract, the school district's personnel salary schedule, or the district's approved staffing plan;
  3. Teach students a majority of the time;
  4. Be currently engaged exclusively in activities that further student instruction; for example, through advising, teaching and mentoring students and offering information resources to students;
  5. Be certified annually by the district to have demonstrated satisfactory teaching performance pursuant to Section 1012.34, Florida Statutes;
  6. Hold a valid Florida educator’s certificate that has not been subject to discipline as the result of a final order of the Education Practices Commission after a formal, informal, or show cause hearing or settlement agreement within the five (5) years immediately prior to the district’s certification pursuant to Section 1012.72(2)(c), Florida Statutes.

To be eligible to receive the mentoring bonus, a teacher must:

  1. Hold a valid NBPTS certificate or notice of certificate award
  2. Be currently employed full-time as instructional personnel within the meaning of Section 1012.01(a)-(c), F.S., as reflected by contract, the school district's personnel salary schedule, or the district's approved staffing plan;
  3. Teach students a majority of the time;
  4. Be currently engaged exclusively in activities that further student instruction; for example, through advising, teaching and mentoring students and offering information resources to students;
  5. Be certified annually by the district to have demonstrated satisfactory teaching performance pursuant to Section 1012.34, Florida Statutes;
  6. Have provided (as previously agreed to in writing) the equivalent of 12 workdays of mentoring and related services to public classroom teachers pursuant to Section 1012.72, F.S., and that the 12 equivalent workdays were not completed during student contact hours during the 196 days of required service;
  7. Hold a valid Florida educator’s certificate that has not been subject to discipline as the result of a final order of the Education Practices Commission after a formal, informal, or show cause hearing or settlement agreement within the five (5) years immediately prior to the district’s certification pursuant to Section 1012.72(2)(c), Florida Statutes