In "Characteristics and Determinants of Teacher-Designed Pay for Performance Plans: Evidence from Texas' Governor's Educator Excellence Grant (GEEG) Program"--a paper presented at the February 2008 National Center on Performance Incentives research to policy conference--Lori Taylor, Matthew Springer, and Mark Ehlert describe the teacher pay for performance plans implemented as part of the GEEG program in Texas. In doing so, they address three key questions: (1) How did schools propose to distribute bonus awards to teachers, and how did a GEEG school's proposed award distribution plan play out in practice? (2) What is the relationship between teacher characteristics and the dollar amounts of bonuses awarded to teachers as part of their school's GEEG plan? and (3) What are the determinants of GEEG plan characteristics and the distribution of bonus awards to teachers?[This research brief describes work published by the National Center on Performance Incentives in "Characteristics and Determinants of Teacher-Designed Pay for Performance Plans: Evidence from Texas' Governor's Educator Excellence Grant Program" by Lori L. Taylor, Matthew G. Springer, and Mark Ehlert, Working Paper 2008-26 (ED510493).]