Reward, recruit, & retain highly effective Texas teachers through the Teacher Incentive Allotment
With the support of TIA-Approved Technical Assistance Provider, engage2learn
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The Teacher Incentive Allotment (TIA) was created by the Texas Legislature to provide a way for high-performing teachers to earn six-figure salaries and for traditionally hard-to-staff schools to attract, nurture, and retain highly effective teachers.
Following a submission and approval process with the Texas Education Agency (TEA), teachers within approved districts are eligible to earn one of three designations – Recognized, Exemplary, and Master – and receive additional pay relative to their designation.
In order to determine which teachers are eligible for one of the designations, districts are required to develop a TEA-approved local designation system (LDS) that includes (but is not limited to):
Teacher observation based on T-TESS
Student growth measures
Student, staff, community, and stakeholder surveys
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TEA-Approved Provider for All 5 Areas of Specialty
General TIA Support
Teacher Observation
Student Growth Measures
Data Analysis
Spending & Strategic Compensation
Develop your local designation system. And support teachers to reach their goals.
As a TIA-approved Technical Assistance Provider (TAP) for all five areas of specialty, engage2learn (e2L) is with you every step of the way, from designing your designation system to implementation support to ensure teachers are reaching their designations.
Designation System Design
Facilitate focus groups, summits, and surveys to gather input to help inform the Local Designation System.
Facilitate the district design team in determining the weighting system for teacher designations.
Assess current student data to determine benchmarks, success criteria, etc. during LDS facilitation and planning.
Determine how to distribute funds for qualifying teachers, considering current district salary schedules.
Ongoing Teacher Support
Implement job-embedded coaching for teachers, administrators, and instructional coaches.
Access to workshops, modeling, debriefs and lesson design thought partnership with a focus on supporting teacher growth towards designations.
Establish a consistent, evidence-based coaching system and feedback protocol
Utilize e2L’s integrated talent development platform, GroweLab, to document all coaching and feedback, evidence of practice, and professional growth.
Leader calibrations of teacher observations for interrater reliability
Scheduling of calibrations across campuses to foster collaboration and feedback
Import all student data into GroweLab to connect and correlate to professional growth data, thereby determining individual teacher effectiveness.
Utilize data-driven insights to celebrate growth and identify areas for improvement.
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“We’re growing in knowledge about the Teacher Incentive Allotment, aimed at compensating top educators across the state. With assistance from engage2learn, our TIA Committee has begun work to allow Elgin ISD to join the program.”
Elgin Independent School District TIA Cohort F
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98% Teacher Retention!
In Arlington ISD, 98% – 100% of coached teachers were retained over a five-year period – even during the pandemic!
