Frequently Asked Questions

Brownsboro ISD is committed to preparing ALL students for success in college, career, and community leadership. We want to  challenge and encourage each student to achieve and demonstrate academic excellence, technical skills, and responsible citizenship.

The Teacher Incentive Allotment (TIA) allows Brownsboro ISD to become a competitive district by retaining and attracting the best teachers to work in our district. Teachers are considered to be the leading contributors to student success and participation in TIA provides the necessary incentive to attract high-performing teachers from other districts to NEISD and for our most effective teachers to stay and work in BISD.

Brownsboro ISD will continue to pursue opportunities to recruit highly-effective teachers, to retain the highly- effective teachers already in the District, and to improve instructional practices across the District.

The overall benefit of the Teacher Incentive Allotment in Brownsboro ISD is:

• Improving student outcomes

• Increasing retention of high performing teachers

• Strengthening the evaluation system

• Supporting teacher growth

• Increasing teacher salaries

• Closing opportunity gaps

• The teacher must be coded as 087 (Teacher) per PEIMS.

• PEIMS description codes for 90 days at 100% of the day (equivalent to four and one-half months or a full semester) or 180 days required at 50-99% of the day and compensated for that employment.

The total T TESS score is an average calculation including the following T TESS dimensions for Domain 2 and Domain 3 for the Teacher Observations component because the identified dimensions within these domains reflect instruction observables. Each dimension from Domain 2 and Domain 3 will be included in the calculation of an average rating for the Teacher Observation component. The average rating will be translated into a percent scaled score.

Instruction (Domain 2) 

Dimension 2.1 – Achieving Expectations Dimension 

Dimension 2.2 – Content Knowledge and Expertise Dimension 

Dimension 2.3 – Communication Dimension 

Dimension 2.4 – Differentiation Dimension 

Dimension 2.5 – Monitor and Adjust Learning 

Environment (Domain 3) 

Dimension 3.1 – Classroom Environment, Routines, and Procedures Dimension

Dimension 3.2 – Managing Student Behavior Dimension 

Dimension 3.3 – Classroom Culture 

Each dimension is scored on a scale of 1-5: 

1– Improvement Needed 

2– Developing 

3– Proficient 

4– Accomplished 

5– Distinguished

To be eligible for a TIA-designation, teachers must earn a minimum student growth outcome. TEA established minimum expectations based on statewide performance expectations. 

Recognized Teacher: At least 55% of students meet or exceed expected growth

Exemplary Teacher: At least 60% of students meet or exceed expected growth

Master Teacher: At least 70% of students meet or exceed expected growth

Each year of the TIA evaluation cycle, teachers will be provided an annual scorecard. The purpose of the scorecard will be to provide transparency within BISD’s TIA system. TIA scorecards will provide teachers with an individualized report of the annual TIA outcomes based on their performance, as well as performance aggregated at the campus and district level. Scorecard data elements will include: 

• Potential TIA designation level, as appropriate 

• T-TESS performance by dimension, domain, and T- TESS weighted score for Domains 2 and 3 

• Student growth outcomes 

 Yes.  There will be set points in time at which TEA will calculate the allotment for  teachers based on the teacher's designation and school characteristic (socio-economic tiers and rural status).

The District will calibrate with administrators to ensure a fair, accurate, and rigorous observation system. 

The student growth requirement is a growth measure and not a proficiency measure. Regardless of where students start from, the student growth target measures the teacher’s ability to have their students meet their growth targets. 

Yes. Any teacher in an eligible position who receives a TIA designation of Recognized, Exemplary, or Master will qualify for the TIA funds associated with those corresponding designations, regardless of how many receive such designations per campus. There is no limit to the number of those who can receive a designation. 

TIA Designations are good for five years, at which the district can automatically submit teachers who meet eligibility for renewal for consideration by the state if all observation and student growth measures are met. Teachers earning a TIA Designation of Recognized, Exemplary, or Master will receive their designated stipend for five years. 

The designation moves with the teacher from campus to campus or another district should they move campuses or districts or until that five-year period expires. You can move up levels within the TIA Designation System during your five years after receiving a designation. You are not “stuck” at your level of Recognized or Exemplary. If you receive an evaluation and student growth measure data that qualifies for a higher designation, the teacher would then be re-designated at that higher level for five years. 

No. The TIA Designation Program recognizes classroom teachers only. Instructional coaches, librarians, administrators, counselors, etc., are not eligible. Teacher eligibility is designated by District PEIMS reporting code Role ID 087.

Role ID 087 includes teachers of record and support teachers. Interventionists, reading specialists, inclusion teachers, etc., are generally coded as 087. Districts must check with their PEIMS specialists and payroll personnel to ensure that teachers meet eligibility requirements before submitting them for designation.

The TIA is designed to recognize and reward high-performing teachers. As the TIA requires eligible teachers to be coded as classroom teachers by PEIMS, if a designated teacher were to move into an administrative role, they would lose their TIA designation and TIA compensation. 

YES! 

The dollar amounts for each campus are determined by the % of students on free and reduced students at the campus. The funding amount is re-calculated every year by the state based on the free and reduced campus percentage for that specific school year.