District Award for Teacher Excellence D.A.T.E. Grant

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District Award for Teacher Excellence(D.A.T.E.
Grant)

• March 25, 2008

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D.A.T.E. Grant Committee Members 2008 Mary K.
Allbright, Director of Special Education Susan
Baker, Teacher Washington Jr. High School Dr.
Scott Barrett, Asst. Supt. Technology Gale
Drummond, Asst. Supt. Secondary Education Dr.
Cathy Gibson, Asst. Supt. Elementary
Education Jean Anne Gloriod, Principal, Travis
Intermediate Dr. Chris Hines, Associate
Superintendent Gilberto Lozano, Principal
Anderson Elementary Trish McClure, Principal
Caney Creek High School Curtis Null, Principal
Peet Jr. High School Stephanie Osborn, Teacher
Conroe High School Dr. Kathy Sharples, Director
Human Resources Dr. Jean Stewart, Deputy
Superintendent Brenda Swatzel, Teacher
Grangerland Intermediate Belinda Taylor, Teacher
Houser Elementary Dexter Upshaw, Director Human
Resources Hedith Upshaw, Director of
Bilingual/ESL Pam Zoda, Coordinator of Federal
Programs
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What is the D.A.T.E. grant?

• The D.A.T.E. or District Award for Teacher
  Excellence grant was created by HB 1 in the 79th
  Legislature in 2006 for the purposes of
  supporting school districts with developing a
  financial reward system for teachers, for
  awarding teachers for positively impacting
  student achievement, and for promoting improved
  instruction, particularly by targeting the
  districts most in-need campuses.
• CISD will award approximately 2,415,000.00.

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What is the D.A.T.E. grant?

• Part I. At least 60 of the funds must be used
  for classroom teachers who positively impact
  student performance using criteria generally
  viewed as a measure of student excellence and
  quality (D.A.T.E. Fact Sheet).
• Part II. A maximum of 40 can be spent on teacher
  stipends, mentoring incentives, etc. Part II
  funds must be tied to specific qualifying
  criteria.

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District Beliefs

• We value all students.
• We value all staff and we value all roles.
• We want an award model that is collaborative
• We believe it is possible for everyone to be a
  high achiever.
• We recognize the importance of collaboration,
  communication, and teamwork in achieving goals.
• We recognize that teachers teaching tested
  subjects have significant challenges and
  pressures.
• We want to create a system that is fair, yet easy
  to understand and communicate.

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Why are we participating in this grant?

• The District goals include
• Improving overall academic performance,
• Improving academic performance of economically
  disadvantaged students,
• Rewarding outstanding teaching, and
• Attracting and retaining high performing teachers
  at campuses serving higher percentages of
  economically disadvantaged students.

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What measures will we be using in this
performance grant?

• We are using only the TAKS tests at this time.
• The grant requires that funds should be
  distributed based on criteria that is
  quantifiable, reliable, valid, and objective.
  Criteria must be generally viewed as a measure of
  student excellence and quality (D.A.T.E. Fact
  Sheet).
• TAKS meets the requirement of being
  quantifiable, reliable, and objective.

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Which CISD schools are eligible to participate?

• To be eligible, the campus must have at least
  35of the student enrollment identified as
  economically disadvantaged based on the October
  2007 campus enrollment.
• These campuses voted to participate by a simple
  majority of all classroom teachers allocated to
  the campus.
• To be eligible to receive Part I awards, these
  campuses must receive a rating of Academically
  Acceptable, Recognized, or Exemplary in 2009 and
  each year of the grant.

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Which CISD schools will participate in the
D.A.T.E. grant?

• There are 22 campuses that
• qualify and that have elected to
• Participate. These include
• Anderson Elementary,
• Armstrong Elementary,
• Austin Elementary,
• Caney Creek H.S.,
• Conroe H.S,
• Creighton Elementary,
• Cryar Intermediate,
• Ford Elementary,
• Giesinger Elementary,

• Grangerland Intermediate,
• Hauke Academic Alternative H.S.
• Houser Elementary,
• Houston Elementary,
• Milam Elementary,
• Moorhead J.H.,
• Oak Ridge Elementary,
• Peet J.H.,
• Reaves Elementary,
• Runyan Elementary,
• San Jacinto Elementary,
• Travis Intermediate,
• Washington J.H

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Which teachers are eligible to participate?

• Part I of the grant is open to teachers of
  subjects that are tested on TAKS in grades 3-11
  who teach on the campuses listed previously, and
  whose campuses are Academically Acceptable,
  Recognized, or Exemplary in 2009.
• Part II of the grant is open to all teachers and
  librarians on the identified campuses.

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When does the D.A.T.E. grant start and end?

• The grant application must be submitted by April
  8, 2008. Rules must be finalized with the state
  before September.
• The grant will be based on TAKS performance
  during the 2008-09 school year.
• Funds will be distributed in the fall of 2009
  sometime after the 2009-10 school year begins.

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Work in Progress

• The grant approval process is fluid and must be
  negotiated at the state level, so the following
  represents a framework that is being proposed for
  your approval to be included in our grant
  application.

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How much money will be awarded and how will the
funds be distributed?

• Part I grant amounts, if awarded, must be no less
  than 1,000.00. Part I awards will be
  approximately1050.00 with additional awards in
  Part IB. Part II Awards of approximately 528.00
  will be available to all teachers and librarians
  at the participating campus who meet the
  Districts requirements for Part II.
• All award amounts are subject to the usual
  employee deductions such as medicare, TRS,
  workmans compensation, and federal taxes.

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Academic Teams for Part IA Each box represents a
team.
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Part I A (910,220.35)

• Teams that meet the performance standard as
  reported in AEIS or Required Improvement are
  eligible to receive Part IA awards providing the
  teachers meet all eligibility requirements.
• To be eligible for Part IA, all of the academic
  teams to which a teacher belongs must meet the
  standard (to be developed). For example, a
  self-contained fourth grade teacher will need to
  meet the eligibility criteria of reading, math,
  and writing academic teams to be eligible to
  receive one award of 1050.00.

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Performance Two-Year Goal for Part IA AwardMust
meet both criteria to qualify for the award.
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Required Improvement

• This exception allows an academic team that does
  not meet its goal to qualify for an award based
  on improved performance. 1) If the subject team
  performance does not meet the established goal,
  but 2) performance has improved from the previous
  year at a rate that is greater than or equal to
  the percent of growth necessary to meet the
  2-year target, then the teachers on the subject,
  grade level, or departmental team are eligible
  for the award.

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Example of RI

• For example, science scores 50 passing in 2009
  are up from 46 passing for that team in 2008. 50
  46 4 improvement. To calculate the required
  improvement use the subject standard of
  improvement of 6 points (science standard for
  that year). Divide that by 2 (6 / 2 3 RI) and
  we have the RI needed for this team. In this
  example, the team met the needed required
  improvement of 3.

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Part I B 570,005.00

• Part IB of the award is a goal incentive for our
  economically disadvantaged student group. Once a
  teacher achieves Part I A required team
  performance through meeting either the campus
  identified standard or the required improvement
  (RI), he/she is eligible for an incentive award
  to be calculated for each identified economically
  disadvantaged student (as coded on the test
  document for AEIS purposes) that took and passed
  the test. The amount per test is budgeted at
  26.00, but contingency (non-awarded) funds may
  be directed into this area which would increase
  this amount.

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Calculating Part IB

• For example, a third grade teacher has 20
  students and teaches both math and reading. 12
  students pass the math TAKS that are identified
  as economically disadvantaged and 13 identified
  students pass the reading TAKS. Lets assume the
  amount paid per test is 26.00. The formula
  would appear as 25 x 26.00650.00 (Part 1A of
  1050 Part 1B 650.00).
• The teacher must teach a TAKS tested area in
  grades 3-11 and be eligible for Part IA by
  meeting all academic team standards for each team
  of which the teacher is a member to be eligible
  for Part IB.

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Part II (876,761.52)

• Teachers/librarians will be required to complete
  6 hours of staff development that does not occur
  during the regular school day (afterschool,
  summers, weekends).
• The staff development must be approved by the
  principal and should be based on the campus plan
  for improvement.
• For the purpose of the grant, the six hours may
  be earned and counted for the next year beginning
  with the first day after completing the last day
  of service for the current school year and must
  be concluded prior to the school day in April.

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Part II (528.00 award)

• In addition to the staff development requirement,
  teachers/librarians must complete one of the
  following requirements
• Mentor students on that campus with a minimum of
  36 documented contacts of no less than 15 minutes
  for each contact of which a maximum of 2 contacts
  may be counted in a one-week period for
  documentation purposes.
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• Tutor for no less than 36 hours before, during,
  or after school in a TAKS subject.

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Feedback

• Easy to understand
• Includes many campuses and an estimated 700
  teachers in Part I.
• Includes all eligible campus teachers/librarians
  in Part II.
• Is a good starting point.
• Is non-competitive
• Allows for team goals and collaboration.
• Has a required improvement exception for campuses
  that do not meet their required goal in year 1.

• Includes too many campuses
• Too small of an award
• Part I excludes non-tested grade levels (pre-k,
  k, 1, 2, 12, science social studies in several
  years ) and elective teachers.
• Part II excludes non teachers.
• De-values non-part I teachers
• Teachers on multiple subject teams have to be
  successful on all teams to earn an award.

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Thank you

• Questions ?