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Zionsville superintendent outlines tentative two-year teacher contract raising starting pay to $52,500
Summary
Superintendent Rebecca Coffman presented terms of a tentative two-year contract ratified by the Zionsville Educators Association that would raise the starting teacher salary to $52,500, provide multi-step schedule increases across 2025–26 and 2026–27, add limited ECA positions and create staffing supports; the board will review ratification on Nov. 10, 2025.
Superintendent Rebecca Coffman told the Zionsville Community Schools Board of Trustees on Oct. 6 that the district and the Zionsville Educators Association have reached a tentative two-year contract under SEA 390 that the association ratified Oct. 1.
"The contract is a two (2) year contract starting on July 1, 2025, and ending on June 30, 2027," Coffman said, listing financial and programmatic terms that include a new starting teacher salary of $52,500, multi-step increases on the salary schedule over both contract years, and a $200 literacy-endorsement stipend under IC 20-28-9-2.5.
Why it matters: the package would raise average compensation in the district and change step progression for eligible teachers. Under the proposal, eligible teachers would move six steps (about $3,000) in 2025–26 (five steps, $2,500, for those already at step G4 or beyond) and four steps (about $2,000) in 2026–27. Eligibility requires a prior-year evaluation of Highly Effective or Effective, a minimum 120 days employment in ZCS and no unauthorized leave beginning in 2025–26.
Coffman also described non-salary items included in the tentative agreement: clarification that teachers will be paid their individual hourly rate for Summer School instruction; additions of select extra-curricular appointment (ECA) positions in 2026–27 and added elementary-level robotics coaching positions beginning in 2025–26; enhancements to paid coverage for maternity and parental leave; a new Discretionary Leave for employment-related absences; and one day per semester for special-education teachers to complete paperwork required under Article VII and IDEA.
Coffman provided district salary context: "after these increases are applied, the minimum salary for a full-time teacher in ZCS will be $52,500, and the average ZCS teacher salary will be $71,000." She thanked members of the Zionsville Educators Association and district leadership for participating in a collaborative bargaining process.
Next steps: Coffman said that, in accordance with Indiana law, the board will meet on Nov. 10, 2025, to consider recommending the tentative agreement and will consider ratifying the contract at the board's monthly public meeting on Nov. 10. The public hearing on Oct. 6 drew no public comment on the tentative agreement.
