Texas is redesigning its performance management system to better support employee growth, feedback, and continuous improvement.
The Opportunity
The Texas Education Agency (TEA) is refreshing its people and performance management system to fully reflect its core values—particularly a commitment to being a people-centered agency—and support employee growth, development, and retention. The current system, now more than 6 years old, has the opportunity to become fully aligned with the agency’s recent shift from compliance-driven evaluation to a model that emphasizes feedback, learning, and continuous improvement. With a mandated September 1, 2026, launch, TEA has an immediate need for technical support and capacity building to design, align, and implement a system that will meet long-term workforce needs.
The Support
The Southwest Comprehensive Center is partnering with TEA’s human resources team to support the design and launch of a refreshed performance management system aligned to agency values and strategic priorities. This work focuses on structured planning, collaborative design, and staff engagement to translate vision into practice. The Southwest Comprehensive Center is providing thought partnership, facilitation, and development support to strengthen competencies, calibration, feedback, and talent review processes and clarify what a healthy, data-informed performance management system looks like in practice.
Desired Outcomes
As a result of this work, TEA will launch a refreshed performance management system that clearly supports employee growth, development, and engagement. In the near term, leaders and staff will have greater clarity, consistency, and shared understanding of performance expectations and feedback practices. Over time, TEA will have a sustainable system that provides actionable insights for leaders, supports continuous improvement, and strengthens the agency’s ability to attract, develop, and retain talent in service of Texas students.