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House Bill 3 provides districts with local control and flexibility to evaluate teachers and assign designations. However, developing a local teacher designation system requires significant planning, robust stakeholder engagement, adequate time to prepare all necessary materials for rollout, and a strong communication plan before the first implementation year.
The Local Designation System must include both a teacher observation and a student performance component:
Teacher observation based on T-TESS; District application must show evidence of validity and reliability.
Student growth measures are determined by the district. Can include pre-and-post tests, value-added measures, student learning objectives (SLOs), and portfolios. District application must show evidence of validity and reliability.
Districts can use other factors in determining the teachers eligible to receive a designation, such as student surveys, teacher leadership responsibilities, teacher mentorship responsibilities, family surveys, demonstration of district core values, teacher peer surveys, and contributions to the broader school community.
The systems must be submitted to TEA for approval and undergo a data-validation process, which Texas Tech University will conduct.
This plan has been approved by TEA.
The TIA committee met on October 24, 2023 to review district-wide data to prepare for the submission of our data-capture year. The committee thoroughly examined data from many angles and found deviations. To have the best opportunity for approval, the committee agreed on changes to help balance the skewed results. Without these changes, the likelihood of the designations being approved would have been jeopardized.
It was determined that including Domains 1 and 4 caused skews and significantly decreased chances of data approval by TEA. With this change, district data is more closely aligned with TIA qualification averages across the state. Submitting data from only Domains 2 and 3 ensures that staff members who originally qualified for a designation will still be eligible after removing Domains 1 and 4. However, this could change the predicted level of designation.
In order to earn the payout for a designation level, teachers must meet the minimum criteria in student growth and T-TESS. If both minimums are not reached, the designation level will be the lower of the two. For example, if a teacher scored a 3.9 (Exemplary) on T-TESS and a growth score of 59% (Recognized), the designation is Recognized.
The district will be notified in February each year if the data has been approved. TEA will give final approval of designations in April, and teachers will be notified at this time.
The committee will continue to review data annually and make adjustments to the TIA Plan when necessary.
Student Growth
All CMISD teachers must participate in the data capture year.
Student growth targets will be set within the first nine weeks of the school year for each student using data from the pre-tests/Beginning-of-year tests.
A select few teachers in performance-based courses will use portfolios for student growth.
Targets will be individualized for each student using the Gap Closure Model. Multiple data points will be used to monitor student growth; Unit Tests, Nine Week Tests, Middle-of-Year tests, and benchmarks.
Post-tests/End-of-Year tests will be administered in May to determine student growth.
Teachers must achieve the following student percentages for a designation.
Recognized = 55% Exemplary = 60% Master = 70%
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