Board Agenda - March 04, 2008

3. District Awards for Teacher Excellence

Presenter: Jeff Bailey

Purpose: B - Update/status report

Time: 10 minutes

Description:

The District Awards for Teacher Excellence (D.A.T.E.), created by House Bill 1, Article IV of the 79th Legislature in 2006 (T.E.C. Ch. 21, Subchapter O, § 21.701), is a non-competitive teacher incentive awards program designed to provide funding to support the establishment of district-wide goals and implementation of a financial award system. The program should be designed to award teachers for positively impacting student achievement, target the district's most in-need campuses to improve teacher quality, and create capacity and sustainability for improved instruction within the district.

All Texas school districts and open enrollment charter schools are eligible to take part in the program. District level committees will establish district goals for their district award plans that are consistent with their local district improvement strategic plan. Once the district goals have been determined, district level planning committees will create an awards plan either district-wide or for select targeted campuses.

Approximately $147.5 million was appropriated for implementation of D.A.T.E. in FY 2009. District grant award amounts will be based on the average daily attendance (ADA) of the 2007-2008 school year calculated among the total number of districts opting into the grant program.

Jun Melvin and James Ashby will present an overview of the grant program to the Plano ISD Board of Trustees for review.

Recommendation:

No action required at this time.

Business Impact:

None

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