Conroe ISD is considering its Teacher Incentive Allocation Program and how it can be expanded to provide higher salaries to more qualified teachers. CISD teachers did not receive a raise in 2023-2024.
This spring, the district received approval from the Texas Education Agency to have a total of 267 teachers nominated through the program after a three-year process.
How we got here
The Teacher Incentive Fund Allocation was created by House Bill 3 in 2019 as part of the 86th Texas Legislature and signed into law by Governor Greg Abbott. TEA’s website states that the goal of the program is to provide highly qualified teachers with an accessible path to six-figure salaries.
According to the TEA, teachers’ schools that earn designation through the TIA program receive additional funding from the state based on their level of designation.
Teacher incentive allocation programs include:
Three levels of designation based on teaching effectiveness: Master, Exemplar, or Certification School districts receive between $3,000 and $32,000 in funding for each teacher designated Prioritizes high-need rural campuses 90% of state funding from the program Dig deeper into the teacher campus where you need to spend on teacher compensation
The district filed a letter of intent with the state in 2020 to begin the TIA process, according to the district’s website. Conroe ISD is currently focusing its TIA program on 26 campuses with high percentages of economically disadvantaged students, according to a discussion at the Sept. 17 board meeting.
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In a presentation to the board Sept. 17, TIA Administrative Coordinator Teral Jackson said the district will continue to consider:
Add campus and teacher assignments Monitor the system for successful data validation Consider the use of additional equipment to measure student growth Add new components without undue burden on teachers and administrators implement
“One of the challenges of growing is that you need an enabler. This is one of the moves that you have to consider if you want to expand, and you can. We may need to invest in our infrastructure to purchase more equipment to support that,” said CISD Superintendent Curtis Null.
“Remember, this program is for the highest performing teachers on the highest-need campuses. We were strategic in choosing these campuses because we wanted to do that,” Jackson said.
next step
The board discussed the topic at its Sept. 17 meeting but took no action. It was not on the agenda at the October 15th meeting.
