Other content areas will be added to our TIA expansion application as the student growth measures for those content areas are identified, validated and reliable. Student Growth measures guidelines can be found on the TEA TIA website: Examples of Student Growth.

If you would like to discuss student growth measures options within your content area, please reach out to Ann Marie Shelton. 

All students on a teacher's roster will count for student growth measure data collection, as long as the student has a beginning-of-year and end-of-year MAP test. 

HB 3, 86th Legislature, included a massive increase in teacher pay. The Teacher Incentive Allotment (TIA) was established by HB 3 with a stated goal of a six-figure salary for teachers. TIA allotment funds help Texas school systems reward, retain, and recruit highly effective teachers. The funding formula prioritizes high needs and rural campuses.

Districts can now create compensation plans based on teacher effectiveness and student equity. This new model creates a path for outstanding teachers to earn a six-figure salary–thus, reducing the desire for highly effective teachers to leave the classroom.

TIA builds upon the success of past national incentive programs while removing previous barriers to success. (Texas Education Agency (TEA), n.d.)

The three designation levels are Recognized, Exemplary, and Master. Which are placed on a teachers SBEC teaching certification and last for five years.

BISD has decided to implement a TIA program in an effort to ennsure that all of our teachers have the same opportunity to access this state-funded stipend thorugh a local designation system or National Board Certification program.

BISD will form cross-functional teams and committees for the creation and design of a TIA local designation system. The teams will engage with stakeholders to implore feedback and input throughout the process.

BISD TIA designation plan will be implemented during the 2022-2023 school year. The BISD local designation application was accepted by TEA in early June of 2022. 

The student growth measures that will be submitted for the BISD local designation system for the 2022-2023 school year are data measures from Circle and MAP (K-10 Math & Reading; 5^th & 8^th grade Science).

If a teacher decides to pursue a National Board Certification and completes the program during the 2021-22 school year, that teacher could receive funding as early as 2022-23.

Districts must verify that each teacher meets the following eligibility requirements before submitting them for a designation:

The teacher must be coded as 087 (Classroom Teacher) per the Public Education Information Management System (PEIMS) description of codes for 90 days at 100% of the day (equivalent to a full semester) or 180 days required at 50–99% of the day and compensated for that employment.

Districts decide, based on the TIA local designatoin system, whether a teacher earns a designation, and which designation they earn based on the teacher observation criteria and student performance components.

TEA and Texas Tech University (TTU), will confirm the designation based on the data sent from each district. TEA approves the local designation system and TTU reviews the data with a data-validation process.

Teacher designations are valid for five years. Within the five-year period, teachers may be put forth for a higher designation if their performance qualifies them, but they cannot be submitted for a lower designation.

Some district spending plans may include variability based on continued performance levels.

TIA was designed to reward, retain and recruit effective classroom teachers. Designated teachers who move to a Role ID other than 087 (Classroom Teacher) 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, so they forfeit the TIA stipend.

National Board Certification is a voluntary, advanced professional certification for Pre K–12 educators that identifies teaching expertise through a performance-based, peer-reviewed assessment. More than 125,000 teachers across all 50 states have achieved Board Certification.

A teacher can find more information about National Board Certification from the NCBT website: NATIONAL BOARD CERTIFICATION. Current employees can find resources and information on our BISD Staff Portal, under the Teacher Incentive Icon.