Texas Administrative Code › Title 19 - EDUCATION › Part 2 - TEXAS EDUCATION AGENCY › Chapter 150 - COMMISSIONER'S RULES CONCERNING EDUCATOR APPRAISAL › Subchapter AA - TEACHER APPRAISAL › Section 150.1012 - Local Optional Teacher Designation System

Current through Reg. 49, No. 28; July 12, 2024
(a) General
				  provisions.
(1) Definitions. The following
				  words and terms, when used in this section, have the following meanings, unless
				  the context clearly indicates otherwise.
(A)
				  Beginning of course--The first nine weeks of a year-long course or the first
				  six weeks of a semester course.
(B)
				  Charter school--A Texas public school that meets one of the following criteria:
(i) is operated by a charter holder under an
				  open-enrollment charter granted either by the State Board of Education or
				  commissioner of education pursuant to Texas Education Code (TEC), §12.101,
				  identified with its own county district number;
(ii) has a charter granted under TEC, Chapter
				  12, Subchapter C, and is eligible for benefits under TEC, §
													11.174 and §
													48.252;
(iii) has a charter granted under TEC, §
													29.259, and Human
				  Resources Code, §
													221.002;
				  or
(iv) has a charter granted under
				  TEC, §
													11.157(b).
(C) Classroom teacher--An
				  educator, as defined by TEC, §
												5.001, who is employed
				  by a school district and who, not less than an average of four hours each day,
				  teaches in an academic instructional setting or a career and technical
				  instructional setting. This term does not include an educational aide or a
				  full-time administrator.
(D) Data
				  capture year--The school year in which the teacher observation and student
				  growth measure data is collected based on the proposed local teacher
				  designation system.
(E) Designated
				  teacher--An exemplary, master, or recognized teacher.
(F) Eligible teaching assignment--An
				  assignment based on campus, subject taught, or grade taught.
(G) End of course--The last twelve weeks of a
				  year-long course or the last six weeks of a semester course.
(H) National Board certification--
				  Certification issued by the National Board for Professional Teaching
				  Standards.
(I) Provisional
				  approval--Conditional approval of a school district local optional teacher
				  designation system that would require resubmission of system review, data
				  validation, additional required documentation, video submission, and/or other
				  technical assistance for further data submission.
(J) Reliability--The degree to which an
				  instrument used to measure teacher performance and student growth produces
				  stable and consistent results.
(K)
				  Rural--A campus within a school district with fewer than 5,000 enrolled
				  students that is categorized as a rural, non-metropolitan: stable, or
				  non-metropolitan: fast growing district type by the Texas Education Agency
				  (TEA); a campus within a school district with fewer than 5,000 enrolled
				  students categorized as rural by the National Center for Education Statistics;
				  or a campus defined in TEC, §
												48.112(a)(1).
(L) School district--The definition of a
				  school district includes charter schools as defined in subparagraph (B) of this
				  paragraph.
(M) Student
				  growth--Student academic progress achieved in response to the pedagogical
				  practices of teachers, as measured at the individual teacher level by one or
				  more measures of student growth aligned to the standards of the
				  course.
(N) Teacher category--One
				  or more eligible teaching assignments evaluated with the same teacher
				  observation rubric, student growth measure, and optional components and
				  weighting as defined in a district's local designation system.
(O) Teacher observation--One or more
				  observations of a teacher instructing students for a minimum of 45 minutes or
				  multiple observations that aggregate to at least 45 minutes.
(P) Texas Student Data System (TSDS)--Data
				  collected annually during the Class Roster Winter Submission.
(Q) Validity--The degree to which an
				  instrument used to measure teacher performance and student growth measures what
				  it is intended to measure.