Teacher Incentive Allotment

The Teacher Incentive Allotment (TIA) was created by the Texas Legislature as part of House Bill 3 to provide a realistic pathway for top-performing teachers to earn higher salaries and help retain and attract highly effective teachers.

Georgetown ISD is proud to offer a fully-approved Teacher Incentive Allotment (TIA) system, where teachers can earn distinctions at a recognized, exemplary and master level. Each of these distinctions comes with an associated monetary allotment for teachers who have earned the recognition.

Beginning in December of 2023, Georgetown ISD created a TIA Action Team, consisting of several Principals and members of our leadership team who met to begin talks of creating a TIA program. We soon added two teacher representatives from each GISD campus to elicit more feedback and assistance. This expanded our initial action team into our TIA Stakeholder Committee. Throughout the spring of 2024, our TIA Stakeholders were tasked with the development of a TIA plan. We then presented our TIA plan to our District Performance Committee for further review, feedback, and approval.

The 2024–2025 school year served as Georgetown ISD’s data capture year. Performance data for eligible teachers was successfully submitted to the Texas Education Agency (TEA) and Texas Tech University in October 2025 for designation consideration. In February 2026, TEA will notify Georgetown ISD of the approval or denial of recommended teacher designations. Final designations and allotments will be communicated by April 2026, with funds issued to eligible teachers by June 2026.

Teachers can also earn an allotment through TIA by obtaining their National Board Certification. More information about the process and eligibility requirements for becoming a NBCT can be found here.

For more detailed information regarding GISD's TIA system, please look at the handbook below.

Handbook

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For questions, contact: tia@georgetownisd.org