001Hello and welcome. In this video, we'll walk you through how to use the Texas Education Agency's College, Career, and Military Readiness or CCMR tracker and show you how it can help you identify which students in your district have achieved CCMR indicators so far. The CCMR tracker is an informational tool to share the data the agency has so far. If corrections need to be made, that can be done later on either through the CCMR verifier for non-PEIMS errors or through a PEIMS working submission. This year, the tracker includes some enhancements and we'll highlight those updates as we go. The CCMR tracker is a spreadsheet-based tool like the one you see here that gives you an early preview of the CCMR-related data to help you make planning decisions at a local level. It includes students in grades
0029 through 12 and a new enhancement this year is the addition of 2025 annual graduates and non-graduates. So, this is a tool that you can use throughout a student's time in high school. So, what does the tracker include? The tracker's released in two parts, each containing different sets of information. Part one was just released in April and this year's version includes several upgrades from last year's tracker. The data includes students reported in grades 9 through 12 on the PEIMS October 2025 snapshot, as well as 2025 annual graduates and non-graduates. It includes CCMR outcomes across the multiple assessments and industry-based certifications or IBCs. And new this year is a more in-depth view of IBCs that makes it easier to see which indicators have been earned and any potential gaps. Part two of the tracker will be
003released later this summer with updated data through the 2024 through 2025 school year. And as you review the tracker, keep in mind that this is lagging data, so it doesn't include results from the 2025 through 2026 school year since that data hasn't been reported yet. Now, let's dive into the tool. To access the CCMR tracker, you'll first need to log into Teal. Because the tracker contains confidential student information, it's only available through Teal. Once there, you'll select the 2026 tracker part one. Then you'll see a description of the tool. And you'll also see links to accompanying documents, such as the interpreting CCMR tracker methodology and sources document. I recommend opening those as well, just in case you have any questions about data sources or methodologies as you're reviewing the tracker. And this is what that
004looks like. Now, let's go back into Teal. To download the tracker, you'll select your district. And right away you'll get prompted that your download is ready. Now that you're in the tracker, you can see a list of all students included. For the purposes of this video, the student names here are fictitious, but you can start scrolling to the right and you'll see the various CCMR indicators at the top that the students may have met, such as SAT or ACT results, AP, certification outcomes, et cetera. The new features that we want to highlight are located at the bottom tabs right here. Now, if you used last year's tracker, you'll recognize the original tab that shows whether a student has demonstrated CCMR through any available indicators. That tab is still right there. It would be your first
005one. Now, in addition, there are new tabs to give you the more detailed views of that CCMR data. We have the IBC tab. This shows you whether an industry-based certification was earned. You have the CTE tab. This shows whether a student is a program of study completer, and you can see that status on column N. And you have a combo tab. This tab shows IBCs earned plus the CTE status and an aligned program of study. Again, if at any point you want to know what a column represents, you can always refer back to those documents that we opened in the beginning. And these documents will give you additional context to help you interpret the information in that tracker. Now, let's get back to the tracker. As a reminder, the tabs that we've reviewed so far
006apply to students that are grades 9 through 12 according to the PEIMS October 2025 snapshot. If you scroll over to the last four tabs here, you'll see the same views are available for last year's 2025 annual graduates and non-graduates. Now, let's focus on the tab titled IBC-CTE Combo. This tab lets you quickly answer three questions all at once, whether the student earned an IBC, whether the student is a CTE completer, and whether the certification aligns to that program of study. Now, beginning with 2027 accountability, to earn CCMR, the CTE status must be completer. So, for those students that will graduate in 2026 or later, we know that to meet the IBC CCMR indicator, a 9 through 12 student must both earn an IBC and be a completer in that aligned program of study. For 2026
007accountability or for prior year graduates, they'll need an IBC and be a concentrator in an aligned program of study. This tab gives you those data points together, allowing you to quickly see whether a student has met the CCMR requirement or where a gap may exist. In this tab, the IBC and the program of study is also already aligned for you. Now, let's walk through a couple of examples to see how this can work in practice. Let's first apply a no filter to column J. Column J will tell me whether CCMR credit was earned, and by focusing on our nose, we can focus on the students that are close to earning CCMR credit, but haven't quite met that requirement. Again, for the purpose of this video, you'll see a condensed list and fictitious information. Now, let's
008look at Amy. I see here that Amy is a completer in cybersecurity. We know that to earn CCMR, she must also earned an aligned IBC. So, I'm looking across the row, and I see that IBC status shows failed exam. Now, this tells me that if Amy retakes it, passes the exam, and earns the certification, she'll be able to earn that CCMR indicator. Let's look at another example. Let's look at Nora. Nora earned her IBC, but she's currently listed as a concentrator in welding rather than a completer. Keeping in mind that this is lagging data, the next step here might be to ensure that Nora is enrolled in the coursework needed to reach that completer status. And you'll notice that the IBC and the program of study are already aligned here. For example, if we look
009at Carlos here, Carlos is listed multiple times because Carlos is a completer on multiple programs of study. And they all align to this IT specialist IBC. He's already a completer in those programs of study, but it looks like he'll have to pass and earn that IBC to fully earn that CCMR status. Now, let's apply a yes filter to column J to see who has already earned that CCMR credit. So, I'll go back here, and this time I want to see yes. Now, let's say if we look at Jose. Jose passed and earned his IBC. And we can also see that Jose is a completer in an aligned nursing science program of study. So, this student has already earned CCMR, so no additional action is needed here. And you can take the same approach with the
010class of 2025 by navigating to these final sets of tabs. Again, let's look at the combo tab here. And since the face to a requirement for 2025 graduates was to be a concentrator and earn an aligned IBC, for these graduates an IBC and a concentrator status may be sufficient here as long as a student has already graduated. And these tabs will let me confirm that. So, for example, I can see that Edward is a graduate. It tells me right here on column F. And I can see that he also earned his IBC. And he is listed as a concentrator in his program of study. So, now I know that Edward has earned his CCMR and I can also confirm that by looking at column L. It says yes. Also, keep in mind that because the
011CCMR tracker is a spreadsheet, you can filter the data to meet your needs to quickly identify different students. So, for example, I can come back over here and I can filter out for students that maybe have failed their exam. And that just helps me narrow down my focus a little more. We hope this tool supports your planning and monitoring of student progress toward CCMR. If you have any questions, please contact performance reporting. Thank you.