Why is Palmer ISD applying for the Teacher Incentive Allotment?

As a school district, we want to reward highly effective teachers who get results. We must ensure our students learn from excellent teachers who do amazing things and experience better-than-average growth. Allowing highly effective teachers to earn more without leaving the classroom is essential to PISD's success.

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 district's most effective teachers can earn extra compensation, and the District will carve out a growth trajectory for developing teachers who aim for the same goal.

Who is eligible for TIA?

At a minimum, the teacher must be coded 087 (Teacher) per Public Education Information.

PISD’s TIA Committee outlined which teaching positions and the eligibility criteria are in our TIA Guidebook. 

What are the Teacher Effectiveness Criteria for TIA?

Based on TIA requirements, the evaluation criteria must include teacher observation and student growth components. While we will create our process for assessing observations and student growth, the state has established guidelines for measuring exceptional effectiveness that we must adhere to.

What are designations and performance incentives?

We will use multiple criteria to measure teacher effectiveness, such as observations and student growth. For every TIA-eligible teacher, we will track progress against these measures over 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.

• During the school year, TIA-eligible teachers will receive multiple T-TESS observations and follow student assessment administration protocols.  

• When a full year of data, e.g., T-TESS observations and student growth scores, has been collected, that information will be used to calculate a composite score for each eligible teacher. Each teacher will be assigned a potential designation based on the composite score if they meet the criteria. 

• Teachers may receive performance-based incentives based on their designation, following the criteria in our spending plan.