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Welcome to the Technical Assistance Site for the Educator Excellence Award Grant Program.
This web site serves as the primary online source for information, tools, and resources to support Educator Excellence Award Grant Program grantees, policymakers, state officials, and district professionals with the design and implementation of performance award programs. Get the latest news and current events.
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The Texas Legislature re-affirmed its commitment to performance awards programs, appropriating $397 million total for the District Awards for Teacher Excellence (D.A.T.E.) grant to cover the 2009-2010 and 2010-2011 school years. This will raise Texas' spending on educator awards programs to over $800 million in the past six years. More about the programs.
In 2008-2009, the D.A.T.E. grant alone reached:
- Over 200 Texas school districts, covering nearly half of Texas' 312,000 teachers and 4,600,000 students
- Over 60% of Texas' limited English proficient and over half of the state's economically disadvantaged students
- Over 45% of Texas' special education students
As the grant expands, Technical Assistance will help guide new districts in using performance awards to serve as a catalyst for systemic school reform.
Jump to the following:
Measuring Educator Effectiveness
D.A.T.E. Cycle 2 TAP Webinar
D.A.T.E. Cycle 2 Program Design FAQ's & Makeup Workshop
TRS Reporting Requirements on Awards
Measuring Educator Effectiveness Symposium
On January 21, 2010, IPSI will assemble a symosium featuring nationally known researchers and practicioners to discuss the complex and challenging issue of measuring educator effectiveness.
The panelists will focus on both teacher and principal effectiveness as well as utilizing these measures in practice.
Kate Walsh of the National Center for Teacher Quality will deliver the keynote address.
The event will take place at the Gaylord Texan Hotel & Convention Center in Grapevine, Texas. There will be no registration fee.
For a more detailed description of the event, go to our national events page.
To register for the symposium, please click here. There is no registration fee.
A full agenda for the event will be posted soon.
TAP Webinar for D.A.T.E. Cycle 2 Districts
There will be a webinar on December 3, 2009 for any district interested in implementing TAP as their D.A.T.E. program. TAP is a comprehensive school reform system specifically authorized in the D.A.T.E. legislation.
The webinar will run from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. Registration for the session will be conducted via Survey Monkey. Click here to register.
For instructions on how to log onto the webinar, please visit our upcoming workshops page.
To learn more about TAP, go to http://www.tapsystem.org.
D.A.T.E. Cycle 2 Program Design FAQ's & Makeup Workshop
The fall program design workshops have now concluded. Based on participant concerns, the Technical Assistance Center has compiled a list of Frequently Asked Questions that can be downloaded here.
**For those Cycle 2 D.A.T.E. districts that did not attend a mandatory program design workshop this fall, there will be one more workshop offered on January 12, 2010 at Ashbel Smith Hall in Austin from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Attendance at a program design workshop is a requirement of the D.A.T.E. grant and this will be the final one given.
Advance registration can be done through Survey Monkey.
Ashbel Smith Hall is located at 201 W. 7th Street, Austin, TX 78701
Click here for Google Maps directions to the workshop.
TRS Requirements for Performance Pay
D.A.T.E. awards given as a performance bonus are subject to TRS reporting, but money paid out as a sign-on bonus is not.
For any questions on this matter, please refer to the TRAQS Payroll Reporting Manual or email: reporting@trs.state.tx.us.
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