HB 5 Updates
• HS Graduation Plan
– Foundation only
– Foundation with Endorsement(s)
– Foundation with Endorsement(s) and
Distinguished Level
– Foundation with Endorsements(s),
Distinguished Level and Performance
Acknowledgements
HB 5 Updates
• LEA option to add to graduation requirements
– Not new
– Does not add to number of state credits required
for graduation
• Endorsements
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Students are not limited in number earned
Local decision on how to display on diploma
AAR is being reviewed
Umbrella (options within endorsements)
HB 5 Updates
• Speech
– Be sure that you land on the option(s)
students have to satisfy the requirement
HB 5 Updates
• A specific speech course will not be a requirement under the
Foundation High School Program.
• New Requirement:
– To receive a high school diploma, a student must
demonstrate proficiency, as determined by the
district in which the student is enrolled, in:
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delivering clear verbal messages
choosing effective nonverbal behaviors
listening for desired results
applying valid critical-thinking and problem-solving
processes
• identifying, analyzing, developing, and evaluating
communication skills needed for professional and social
success in interpersonal situations, group interactions,
and personal and professional presentations
HB 5 Updates
• College Prep Course
– TEC 28.014 (TSI)
– TEC 39.025 (b-2) (Remediation for EOCs)
HB 5 Updates
• TAA Letter – April 9th
– TEC 28.0217
• Expands the requirement for acceleration to HS
– TEC 29.081
• Accelerated Instruction at no cost to student
• Separately budget for services to students who don’t
pass EOCs
• Prioritize State Comp funds
• Program intent code 24
• Evaluate and Report (public hearing) effectiveness of
programs used
– TEC 28.0211 and 28.0217 (SSI)
– Letter serves as TEA certification for 13-14 and
14-15
HB 5 Updates
• TEA Communication
– FAQs
• General
• Endorsements
• TBA
– TETN/Webinar(s)
• Counselors
• Administrators
• Note: Please send us your questions, and
we will submit to TEA.
HB 5 Updates
• Special Education and HS Graduation
Plans
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Survey Season
Not New
• Principal Survey to Evaluate Teacher Prep
Programs
– Completed and submitted by building principal
– Required by TEC 21.045 and TAC 229
– Collecting data regarding the performance of
beginning teachers and the effectiveness of educator
preparation programs in preparing beginning teachers
to succeed in the classroom
– April 2 May 1 – June 16, 2014
Survey Season
• Statewide Survey of Teachers and Administrators
– The Teaching, Empowering, Leading and Learning (TELL) Texas
Survey
– House Bill 2012
– Questions about teaching conditions that have been
shown to be important to student achievement and teacher
retention, such as instructional practices and support, time,
school and teacher leadership, facilities and resources,
community engagement,
professional development, managing student conduct, and
new teacher support
– April 5 – May 5 31, 2014 (you may delay start to May 1)
– Administered by New Teacher Center (NTC)
– Results after 5 weeks shared with districts and schools who have at
least 50 percent of educators and five staff members participating
– www.telltexas.org
Survey Season
• Professional Development Audit
New
– One submission per LEA
– Required by House Bill 2012
– Collecting data to inform agency action to eliminate
conflicting and consolidate duplicative requirements
by either taking administrative action, encouraging
school district to make appropriate changes to district
policies, or by recommending statutory changes to
the state legislature
– March 31 – April 14, 2014 May 1 – 31, 2014
Survey
Who Completes?
When
Administered?
What Are We Surveying?
Do We Get Survey Results?
How Administered?
Legal Requirement?
PD Audit
One per LEA
March 31 – April 14,
Collecting data to inform agency action to eliminate
conflicting and consolidate duplicative requirements by
either taking administrative action, encouraging school
district to make appropriate changes to district policies, or
by recommending statutory changes to the state
legislature
Results will be used to
examine state policy
decisions around
duplicative or restricting
rules.
Online
House Bill 2012
2014 May 1 – 31,
2014
The Teaching,
Empowering, Leading
and Learning (TELL)
Texas Survey
www.telltexas.org
Teachers and
Administrators
April 5 (May 1) –
May 31, 2014
This *ANONYMOUS*online survey asks questions about
teaching conditions
that have been shown to be important to student
achievement and teacher
retention, such as instructional practices and support,
time, school and teacher leadership, facilities and
resources, community engagement,
professional development, managing student conduct,
and new teacher support.
Results after 5 weeks
shared with districts and
schools who have at
least 50 percent of
educators and five staff
members participating
Teachers and
administrators will be
able to access the
survey using a
unique, ANONYMOUS
access code that will be
included in the
materials
mailed to each school
the week before the
survey begins.
House Bill 2012
Principal Survey to
Evaluation Teacher
Prep Programs
Campus Principal
May 1 – June 16,
2014
Collecting data regarding the performance of beginning
teachers and the effectiveness of educator preparation
programs in preparing beginning teachers to succeed in
the classroom
Data reported back to
Educator Preparation
Programs
Available to principals
via the TEA educator
profile in the Educator
Certification Online
System (ECOS) on May
1, 2014
Required by TEC
21.045 and TAC
229