Texas Teacher Evaluation and Support System (T-TESS)

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    Making T-TESS Meaningful for Teacher Growth

    A Conversation with Mrs. Jofee’ Tremain, Principal at East Fort Worth Montessori Academy One of the most common questions Texas principals ask about T-TESS is this: How do we move it from something we “have to do” into something meaningful that truly supports teacher growth? As more districts across Texas use the Teacher Incentive Allotment […]

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    Start Strong With T-TESS and Teacher Goals

    As the school year kicks into gear, school leaders are beginning their classroom walk-throughs to check in on progress for student learning and campus initiatives. As school leaders, one of the most powerful ways we can influence student outcomes is by anchoring coaching conversations in the goals teachers set for themselves. Let’s take a look […]

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    Creating Consistency: The Importance of T-TESS Calibration

    The Teacher Evaluation and Support System (T-TESS) is a comprehensive framework designed to assess and improve teaching practices in schools across Texas. T-TESS provides appraisers and teachers with a rubric to support the development of a common language of instructional practices that best support student growth. Furthermore, there are many steps districts, appraisers, and teachers […]

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    Impact Coaching Training

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    In this two-day workshop, participants will learn and apply specialized coaching skills, tools, and competencies to utilize in the T-TESS and T-PESS observation cycles or any conversation about teaching and learning.

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    T-TESS Training

    Texas Teacher Evaluation and Support System (T-TESS) is the Commissioner recommended teacher evaluation system for the state of Texas. It’s a system designed by educators to support teachers in their professional growth and includes a goal-setting and professional development plan, an evaluation cycle, and a student growth measure.

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    How to Utilize the Virtual T-TESS Rubric

    Who would have thought we would ever need a Virtual T-TESS Rubric? It’s become the cliché phrase of 2020 repeated across every setting. “Who would have ever thought….?” followed by a practice or precedent we thought would be unchangeable. In this season of a world pandemic, the arena of education has felt the impact of […]

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  • Preview of the blue and gray front pages and covers for two prodcuts included in the Region 13 T-TESS Appraiser Training Guide and T-TESS Rubric.

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    T-TESS Appraiser Training Guide & Rubric Participant Handouts

    Product Update: We are excited to announce an important update to our T-TESS Appraiser Training Guide and T-TESS Rubric. The updated version now includes the new Alt Domain I Rubric, further enhancing your training and implementation experience. The T-TESS Appraiser Training Guide and the T-TESS Rubric are required resources for all participants enrolled in the three-day T-TESS Appraiser Training, and are necessary to implement the T-TESS process as an ongoing system of feedback and support for continuous teacher growth. These resources were crafted to enhance the T-TESS experience, and will be used during the training to help guide the application and understanding of the T-TESS domains, dimensions, descriptors, and performance levels. Also available in a bundle that includes the easy to use T-TESS Rubric Flipchart. ESF Alignment Supports Lever 5.2 - Build teacher capacity through observation and feedback cycles. Updated 2022 Appraiser Training Guide: Spiral-bound, 57 pages T-TESS Rubric: Stapled, 18 pages The T-TESS Appraiser Training Guide and Rubric were produced by the Texas Education Agency and Education Service Center Region 13 and are maintained by the Region 13 Educator Evaluation and Leadership team.

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Texas Teacher Evaluation and Support System (T-TESS) is the Commissioner-recommended teacher evaluation system for Texas. It’s a system designed by educators to support teachers in their professional growth and includes a goal-setting and professional development plan, an evaluation cycle, and a student growth measure.

The T-TESS Rubric is made up of 4 Domains and 16 Dimensions. Teachers at every level have areas of strength and areas that need to grow, and through T-TESS, every teacher is supported and encouraged to grow professionally.

We provide T-TESS trainings, consultations, and support throughout the year to fulfill the state-mandated requirement for anyone who appraises teachers using the T-TESS instrument. We also offer half-day teacher orientations to familiarize new teachers with T-TESS.

Need to get in touch?

Contact a member of our team for more information.

LaWanda Ross, 512-919-5208

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