TIA Overview
Recognition and Reward for Excellence in Teaching
The Texas Legislature created the Teacher Incentive Allotment (TIA) as part of House Bill 3 to provide a realistic pathway for top-performing teachers to earn higher salaries and help retain and attract highly effective teachers.
Coldspring-Oakhurst CISD is part of Cohort F and submitted our initial TIA application in April 2023. COCISD worked with a committee to develop the local designation system application approved by the Texas Education Agency. COCISD updated our Local Designation System in April 2024, modifying parts of our existing system and expanding to include new teaching assignments.
COCISD will spend the 2023-2024 school year gathering teacher performance and student growth data and will submit it to Texas Tech University in the Fall of 2024 for the teaching assignments in Phase 1. By Spring 2025, TEA will notify COCISD of system approval for final designations and allotments. By August 2025, funds will be issued to eligible teachers who earned a designation from our approved system. We worked with the next phase of teaching assignments, Phase 2, during the 2023-24 school year on developing their student growth measures and submitted a modification and expansion application in April 2024. We will expand or modify our system each year to ensure each teacher has a pathway toward a potential designation. COCISD will capture teacher performance and student growth data each year and submit them the following year.
The amount of increased compensation available to each teacher depends on a formula determined at the state level, which also considers the number of economically disadvantaged students. You can learn more at tiatexas.org