T-TESS
T-TESS is the acronym for this phrase
What is Texas Teacher Evaluation & Support System?
What is Teacher Incentive Allotment?
This house bill requires accelerated instruction for all students who do not reach the approaches grade level on a STAAR/EOC exam
What is HB 4545?
MAP is an example of this type of assessment
What is norm referenced?
Rating received by all districts and campuses for 2021
What is Not Rated: Declared State of Disaster?
All teachers with this contract type receive a formal evaluation
What is a probationary contract?
To be eligible for TIA, districts must have a teacher observation system that combine these two components
What is observation of teacher practice and student growth?
Accelerated Learning Committees are required at these grade levels when a student does not pass a reading or math STAAR exam
What are grades three, five, and eight?
Unit testing is based on this document
What is TEKS Resource System Year-at-a-Glance (TRS YAG)?
For 2021, campuses were held harmless for STAAR participation percentages below this threshold
What is 95%?
At minimum, teachers will have this number of formal 15-minute walktroughs
What is four?
In WISD, teachers must meet this criteria to be eligible for the designation process
What are at least three years of classroom experience and employment with WISD for at least two years?
HB 3906 eliminates this exam as a standalone assessment in grades 4 and 7
What is the writing exam?
One of the uses of MAP is as this tool to identify students in need of RtI supports
What is a universal screener?
While campuses received comparison groups for 2021, they will not receive this
What is distinction designations?
All teachers must complete this annually even if they are not being formally evaluated during the current school year
What is the goals and professional development plan?
A process to increase rating alignment between appraisers and between campuses throughout the year
What are calibration protocols?
HB 3261 extends the online administration of STAAR/EOC exams to this school year
What is 2022-2023?
This is the new state literacy assessment for kindergarten
What is TX-KEA?
For 2020-2021, the STAAR Progress Measure is calculated using these results
What are 2019 results and 2021 results?
What is ten working days?
This is the type of evidence appraisers should collect when visiting a teacher's classroom; it is objective and states exactly what the teacher said or did or what students said or did
What is high-quality (or low-inference) evidence?
HB 3261 caps multiple-choice items as this percentage of the test
What is 75%?
In secondary, grading curves for Honors level unit tests will be decided by the campus subject level team for averages below a 70 with the approval of this person
Who is the campus principal?
This test will not be a part of accountability for 2022
What is writing?