OVERVIEW
How does TIA work?
TIA is a performance pay teacher evaluation system that may award additional compensation to teachers based on predetermined effectiveness criteria. This means that the most effective teachers in the district have an opportunity to earn additional compensation and that the District will carve out a growth trajectory for developing teachers to aim for the same goal.
TIA Eligibility
In order to be eligible for the TIA, teachers must be coded as 087 (Teacher) per the Public Education Information Management System (PEIMS) description of codes. Interventionists and special education teachers are eligible if they are coded as 087 in PEIMS. Paraprofessionals and campus administrators are not eligible for TIA Designations. Designated teachers who move to a Role ID in PEIMS other than 087 will maintain their designation if their teacher SBEC certificate is valid; however, they will not generate annual allotment funding if they are not in a 087 teaching role for that year of service. Unlike teaching certificates, TIA designations are general. The designation will be placed on the teacher’s SBEC certificate and will not specify a certification area or subject/grade level.
Teacher Effectiveness Criteria
Based on TIA requirements, the evaluation criteria must include both a teacher observation and a student performance component. While we will create our own process for assessing observations and student performance, the state has established a set of guidelines for measuring exceptional effectiveness that we must adhere to.
Designations & Performance Incentives
The idea of using multiple criteria to measure teacher effectiveness, e.g. observations and student growth, is referred to as the use of multiple measures. For every TIA eligible teacher we will track progress against these measures over the course of the school year. Detailed TIA Texas Designation System Requirements are available on tiatexas.org.
Teachers will receive regular development, feedback and progress updates to keep them abreast of their TIA status.
Over the course of the school year TIA eligible teachers will receive multiple T-TESS observations and follow standardized student assessment protocol.
When a full year of data, e.g. T-TESS observations and student growth scores have been collected, that information will be used to calculate a composite score for each eligible teacher. Based on the composite score, eligible teachers will be assigned a designation.
Teachers may receive performance-based incentives based on their designation. Note that the final amount actually allocated to each campus depends on a number of variables.