Teacher Incentive Allotment
Teacher Incentive Allotment
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Rewarding Teacher Excellence in Texas.
Rewarding Teacher Excellence in Texas.
The Teacher Incentive Allotment (TIA) was created by the Texas Legislature as part of House Bill 3 to provide a realistic pathway for top teachers to earn six-figure salaries and to help attract and retain highly effective teachers at traditionally hard-to-staff schools.
Teacher Designations
Teacher Designations
Districts have the option to locally develop or identify a system for designating high-performing teachers as Recognized, Exemplary, or Master. Districts that employ teachers with designations can receive up to $32,000 per year in TIA funding per designated teacher.
Designations are added to a teacher’s SBEC certificate and are valid for five years. If a teacher moves to a new district, the allotment funding follows the teacher to the new district regardless of whether the new district has an approved designation system in place.
Teachers with National Board Certification may be eligible to earn an automatic Recognized designation regardless of whether the district in which the teacher works is participating in TIA.
Performance Standards
Performance Standards
To implement the Teacher Incentive Allotment, House Bill 3 also requires the setting of “performance and validity standards” to ensure that the identification of highly effective teachers under the three designation categories – Master, Exemplary, and Recognized – yield reliable and comparable results across the state. When released, applicants will be expected to use performance standards along with district teacher observation and student performance standards to determine which teachers qualify for designations. Part of the data validation process will include a review of the accuracy of how district systems align their designations to the statewide performance standards.
Eligibility
Eligibility
In addition to all Texas school districts, open-enrollment charter schools are eligible to receive TIA funding and develop local systems for designating teachers. Only teachers with an SBEC certification are eligible to earn a designation. Teachers with intern or probationary certificates are not eligible.
TIA Teacher Overview
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