Our Mission
The Texas Center for Educator Excellence (TxCEE) focuses on equipping educators to improve student achievement by aligning district resources and increasing educator effectiveness through training, coaching, and instructional support.
TxCEE’s Texas Educator Excellence Model (TEEM) encompasses eight components that, when combined, form a comprehensive educator support system that increases educator and student success. While districts address each of these components, TxCEE can help maximize resources and systems to leverage a singular component or the comprehensive TEEM.
TEEM Components and Key Strategies
Click on the component titles below for additional information.
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Data Driven Instruction Instructional Support – Establishing a culture of data use and continuous improvement promotes a positive campus culture and enhances student learning.
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High-quality, Job-embedded Professional Development – Providing differentiated, sustained professional learning opportunities support educator growth and ultimately improve student learning.
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Educator Mentoring and Support – Implementing systems to strengthen induction, coaching, and mentoring programs leads to improved instruction and student growth.
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Teacher Career Pathways – Offering a variety of career pathway opportunities to become campus leaders allows effective teachers to advance professionally, while having options to maintain an instructional role.
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Educator Evaluation Systems – Employing rigorous, research-based observation tools and student growth measures to inform a variety of human capital management decisions.
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Recruiting, Retaining, and Rewarding High-Quality Educators – Having human resource systems aligned with best practices that foster opportunities to attract, retain, and reward effective educators and improve student outcomes.
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Family, Community, and Educator Involvement – Actively involving educators, parents, institutions of higher education, and other community members leads to improved educator effectiveness and student learning.
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Leadership Pipelines – Providing structures to identify, support, and retain effective leaders can create environments that attract and retain other skilled educators as well as improve student outcomes.
TxCEE used research and lessons learned from a number of districts and states across the country to develop a Student Learning Objective (SLO) process. This process can be used to measure student growth in every classroom. [MORE]
SEED is a district-wide professional learning system that stems from school and district goals and uses collaborative learning efforts of educators to strengthen teacher quality, impacting classroom teaching and student achievement. [MORE]
New principals receive intensive and individualized coaching, mentoring, training, and support to positively impact school culture, educator development, and student achievement. This approach also increases leadership skills. [MORE]
This mentoring program for new teachers helps them learn how to implement research-based practices yielding high results and provides customized support to help maximize the impact on student achievement in their classroom. [MORE]
TEEMS is a data system for educators that integrates instructional, operational, and personnel data to help inform human capital decisions. TEEMS helps organize, document, monitor, and evaluate educator practices and student learning at the campus and district levels. [MORE]
Texas Center for Educator Excellence
The Texas Center for Educator Excellence (TxCEE), an Austin-based satellite office of the Region 18 Education Service Center (ESC), provides leadership and technical assistance across Texas to improve educator excellence. TxCEE’s mission focuses on equipping educators to improve student achievement by aligning district resources and increasing educator effectiveness through educator training, coaching, and instructional support. To learn more about TxCEE and its services, email info@txcee.org or call 512-538-0611.
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If you would like information about our training and consulting services for Texas school districts, please contact Priscilla Gonzalez Flores, TxCEE Communications Manager, at pflores@txcee.org.