Liberty Hill ISD

The Teacher Incentive Allotment (TIA) is a program that provides top-performing teachers an accessible pathway to a six-figure salary without having to leave the classroom. When a teacher earns a designation through their district’s local designation system or holds a National Board Certification, the designated teacher generates extra funding for their district. 

House Bill 3 established the Teacher Incentive Allotment (TIA) to recognise effective teachers on three different levels: 

• Recognized
• Exemplary
• Master

These teacher designations generate additional teacher-focused allotment funding for districts in order for them to reward their top performers.

Eligible teachers may earn up to an additional $32,000 annually.

For a teacher to be eligible for the TIA, he or she must be coded as 087 (Teacher) per the Public Education Information Management System (PEIMS) description of codes for 90 days at 100% of the day (equivalent to four and one-half months or a full semester) or 180 days required at 50-99% of the day and compensated for that employment.

The Liberty Hill ISD TIA Committee identified the following teacher groups to be eligible for the initial TIA designations: K-8th Grade Reading/Math Teachers, Algebra I Teachers, and English I and II Teachers.

TIA requires districts to submit data with value-added measures (examples include: STAAR scores, EOC scores, iStation, MAP scores) as part of the student growth measure component. After much consideration, the committee chose to start the TIA process with grades and content areas that already have value-added measures established to assure validity and reliability of the student growth data.

Eligible Teachers Phase 1: Teachers of courses with growth measures currently in place for the 2024-25 school year:

• K - 8th Grade Reading/Math Teachers 
• Algebra I Teachers
• English I and II Teachers

However, the district is committed to providing an opportunity for all teachers in the district to earn a designation under the local designation system. To meet this goal, the district is actively working to put student growth measures in place in every grade and content area and will expand the TIA plan to include additional teaching assignments during the Year 2 data submission.

Two required measures must be used as part of the locally designed Teacher Designation System:

• T-TESS 
• Classroom Student Growth Measures 

Texas school districts must use at least 90 percent of each allotment for compensation of teachers employed at the campus at which the teacher for whom the district received the allotment is employed. The remaining 10% of funds can be retained at the district level and used for costs associated with the administration of the locally designed designation system.

For each classroom teacher with a teacher designation under TEC Section 21.3521 employed by a school district, the school district is entitled to an allotment equal to the following applicable base amount increased by the high needs and rural factor as determined below:

• $3,000, or an increased amount not to exceed $9,000, for each Recognized Teacher.
• $6,000, or an increased amount not to exceed $18,000, for each Exemplary Teacher; and
• $12,000, or an increased amount not to exceed $32,000, for each Master Teacher;

The funding is added to the teachers' SBEC certification and is valid for five years.

The above graphic is the LHISD Draft Plan for the expansion of TIA teacher groups.  We will be reviewing this plan to determine the available resources that will be accessible to expand teacher groups in future years, and we will make adjustments to the plan as needed based on this additional information.