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Emily By http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/g/elissa_gootman/index.html?inline=nyt-per Published: June 4, 2009So what kind of teachers could a school get if it paid them $125,000 a year?An accomplished violist who infuses her music lessons with the neuroscience of why one needs to practice, and creatively worded instructions like, “Pass the melody gently, as if it were a bowl of Jell-O!”A self-described “explorer” from Arizona who spent three decades honing her craft at public, private, urban and rural schools.Two with http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/i/ivy_league/index.html?inline=nyt-org degrees. And Joe Carbone, a phys ed teacher, who has the most unusual résumé of the bunch, having worked as http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/b/kobe_bryant/index.html?inline=nyt-per ’s personal trainer.“Developed Kobe from 185 lbs. to 225 lbs. of pure muscle over eight years,” it reads.They are members of an eight-teacher dream team, lured to an innovative http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/c/charter_schools/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier that will open in Washington Heights in September with salaries that would make most teachers drop their chalk and swoon; $125,000 is nearly twice as much as the average New York City public school teacher earns, and about two and a half times as much as the http://www.payscale.com/research/US/All_K-12_Teachers/Salary . They also will be eligible for bonuses, based on schoolwide performance, of up to $25,000 in the second year. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/05/education/05charter.html?_r=1&em
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