001All right, I'm going to go ahead and start the recording. Um, welcome everybody to the college prep courses for CCMR accountability deep dive. Um, we are still admitting some folks in, but we're going to go ahead and get started um for you all today. Um, some webinar logistics. This is a recorded session and it will be posted on the Texas Education Agency website. Um we do ask that you use the chat function. Um we will be actively working to answer your questions that are submitted um or will be addressed at the end of this session. Part of the intent of this is to also collect some really good questions so we can do uh a future question and answer. Um your presenters this morning um are Valerie Laundry, senior director of college career military preparation,
002myself, Crystal Garza, director of post-secondary preparation programs, and we have Taffany Nickerson, who's our statewide coordinator for post-secary success. Um we're still admitting folks into the into the room, so I just want to say another welcome. Um, if you're wondering if you're in the right place, we are about to talk about college prep courses for CCMR and taking a little bit of a deeper dive um at some of the slides that um some of you all on the call might have seen presented by our commissioner of education back in May. Um, so today's agenda for our topic is to take a little bit of an overview of college career military readiness and specifically how college prep courses integrate within CCMR. We're going to look a little bit at the CCMR refresh and the timeline of
003the CCMR approved provider lists, some next steps for this upcoming 2526 implementation year, and then planning for 2627 as well. So, as I mentioned, um, for those that were on the call with the commissioner or the superintendent call, and I know, um, there were some education service centers that were invited to that as well. Um, some of these, uh, preliminary slides might be familiar, but we did want to review them in case we did have um, some participants that weren't able to um, see that session or those slides at that time. So, we're going to go ahead and start with those. Um, we wanted to ground this in college, career, and military readiness. Um, mostly because this process is meant to pinpoint a list for CCMR accountability specifically. So, we wanted to um kind of
004nestle this topic within college readiness and that first indicator in particular, meeting Texas Success Initiative criteria in reading language arts and mathematics. So, as you'll see on this slide, um to meet this criteria, a graduate must meet these TSIA college readiness standards in both reading language arts and mathematics. It can be demonstrated in a different mix of ways. It can be through the TSIA assessment, um SAT, ACT, or specifically as it pertains to this topic, successfully completing and earning credit for a college prep course as defined by the Texas Education Code. Um, we also wanted to highlight the additional language um that's now familiar um to folks in the accountability space which is making sure that these courses are designed in alignment between school districts and their part partnering institutions of higher education. So again,
005um we took the approach for this college prep course um process and evaluation from the lens of accountability. Um we wanted to go over the timeline prior to the 2526 school year. Um, as some practitioners on this call um, might have been participating in 2014 with the House Bill 5 College prep courses being a response to legislative requirements in fall 2014. Um, spanning to 2019 with the student achievement denominator um, including college prep courses 2223, the agency taking a little bit of a closer look and evaluation at college readiness indicators broadly. So some of those indicators you saw on the previous slide um and how that impacts college enrollment and persistence um to 2324 when the agency announced an approval process which we'll speak to and the results of on this call um starting with
006graduates in the class of 26 and we know that that has since changed um tea opening that application to providers and subsequently conducting an evaluation based off performance and faculty review. So all of these timeline pieces have contributed over time to college prep courses growing in participation as well as the rate of credit that's been received since 2018. So we've definitely seen an eight time increase in credit um and a 15 time increase in credit for reading language arts. So we've definitely seen an uptake in the adoption of these college prep courses. um and we wanted to take a deeper look as an agency of how that impacts CCMR um and how it's impacted through the timeline um that we previously discussed. So there are a a good number of graduates that are exclusively meeting
007CCMR through college prep courses and that's been on the rise consistently since 2018 for both mathematics and reading language arts. So, um, we wanted to continue to talk about the growth, the intentionality to making sure that these courses are fulfilled in successful partnerships and that they're aligned. Um, and and there will be a section of this um, conversation where we talk about proper coding in PES and what that means um, for implementation moving forward in the 2526 school year. But currently, and I think this has always been the standard, we want to make sure that students are successfully completing these courses, there's been partnership and collaboration between school districts, higher ed partners, um, and that they're completing it in those subject areas and earning TSIA exemptions. um we want to make sure and and I
008think we have with the inclusion of that language um from 51.338 to say students should be reported in our student information systems as successfully completing the course if they have uh met those TSI exemption requirements that should be clear in partners. So from that timeline, the growth um and like I mentioned, we opened a application process, we reviewed evidence for college readiness um in alignment with um CCMR college readiness indicators. Um, for some folks on the call that were not a participant, such as school districts or some education service centers, um, we did open up this application to college prep course providers. um whether it was institutions of higher education, other education service centers and other partnerships um were invited to submit documentation such as syllabi, memorandums of understanding um and materials that are used
009for the instruction of these courses and of course um high school participation list so that we can pull data um to start to look at the submissions and how um these these courses have progressed specifically in 2223 which we'll get to um at the end of the session. Um so we asked for submissions then we did a data and a faculty review. The agency reviewed all submitted materials um we recruited faculty reviewers um to look at the course content and evaluated the class of 22 and 23 first college level course data per applicant in the spring of 2025. Um we made sure to align with other um college readiness measures such as TSIA, ACT and SAT um expectations to ensure that there was kind of a synergy there with um that indicator in CCMR. The
010result for the scoring was on two criteria. the application provider met 60% or higher for first college level course performance or 50% or higher for first college level course performance and at least 20 points in the faculty review. Um, and just uh want to continue to emphasize that in this evaluation um we wanted to try and and uh reflect the students outcomes as well as the performance of the um providers in the the instructional materials. So, some of the um highlights that came out of this evaluation are that a majority of graduates um receiving CCMR credit and enrolling directly with partner institutions were not coded with a TSIA waiver. So, as you can see there um 51% for ELR, 55% for math. Um what we're trying to say with this slide and what we found
011was that the number should be much closer to 100% of students if they are passing that class should be coded with a TSIA exemption waiver to indicate that there is alignment between a school district and a higher ed partner um in terms of expectations for um these courses. So, we took a step back to really think about um are these students earning these waiverss? Are they being served without remediation in these first college level courses? Um and really a call to action to make a better alignment and intention to make sure that these students are receiving these um waiverss. Um, taking a little bit of a closer look to how the students actually performed in the courses, most graduates um, who only met college readiness through college prep courses did not earn a C or
012better in the first college level course in the same area without remediation. And again, this is really important um information to look at because we're not just trying to to see where this student is from the high school course that they took, but we want to make sure that this exemption is working for students as well. So, as a result of these evaluations, we had five English language arts and reading um providers approved for English. Amarillo College, Brazesport College, Hill College, Education Service Center 20, and Education Service Center 1. Um, at this time we do not have approved college prep course for CCMR courses in mathematics and we'll talk a little bit about that later in the timeline. Um, but wanted to make sure that if you haven't already seen the list, it's available on
013our website. Um and any subsequent lists or information will continue to be posted on our website and through a taa. So a part of this um session is to do was to do a deep dive and look at the results um but also really look at the other uses for college prep courses that are not just CCMR accountability. We know that school districts are still using um these courses and will continue to use them for high school graduation requirements, whether it's elective credit, um English credit, particularly for um foundation high school program or mathematics credit. Um but we also wanted to highlight that you can continue to use these courses as a TSIA preparation um for taking those assessments. um TSIA, SAT and ACT particularly TSIA as we know that um a lot of institutions
014align that criteria. So this will be kind of an ongoing theme at the end when we talk about 2627 and how we should be um looking at um these changes a little bit closer. So we talked a little bit about the history of college prep courses, but I wanted to talk also about where we're going from this point. So, for the 2526 school year, um the Texas Education Agency has postponed the implementation of a proposed list and um we have slides that go year by year um in the next couple of slides. So, we'll take a look at that a little bit closer. This is just high level until the 2028 accountability year. Um we have approved a college prep course for CCMR list for 2627. that will be the first active year with those
015um providers that you saw. Um and 2728 will be the release of that 2028 a throughout accountability rating for college prep courses for CCMR. So again wanted to make sure that folks had a slide and access to that to the administrator addressed. Um we have postponed the approved list for college prep courses to 2028 accountability. Um, we wanted to be responsive to the public comment received during the A throughF accountability rating system manual proposed rules. Um, and so we deferred the use of a list um, until the 28 accountability year, which is of course the 26 27 graduates. Um, so that change should be reflected, but wanted to make sure that folks were aware of how that has um, evolved, but still wanted to emphasize that we're still talking about 12th grade students. So, we're
016going to start on this slide. This is a high-level picture of the next few years through the 2033 refresh. Um, wanted to start on that first row. um which talks about this 2425 school year that just wrapped up. Any course that you would have used for college prep course whether it was English or math um will be recognized for the annual graduates of 25 which will be our 26 accountability year. So if you um had have already provided that for this past year that is um consistent and there are no updates to that. So, the original plan was to incorporate the TEA college prep approved list um for the class of 26. Of course, like we just discussed, that's postponed um until the 2627 school year. Um we'll go into further detail, but just wanted
017to give the highlights. We're going to talk about the 28 A throughF refresh um the subsequent four years after that refresh and then the overall um version two list where we start new with a new um list for the class of 2032 graduates. So, as I mentioned, um, for the 2526, um, school year, um, districts may continue to offer locally developed college prep courses in partnership with higher ed partners or other partners for the class of 26. This means that, um, that uh, if they are not approved for 2627, you may continue to partner with them in 2526. Um, we also want to um state that PE's reporting is required for college prep course participation starting from the 2526 school year. Um, only courses completed by 12th grade students will be eligible for CCMR credit.
018So wanted to keep um mentioning that um as a point of reference and and we will talk more about course codes in the following section for 2627. Um the list has been available since May 2025. Um you could it was based off of class of 2022 and 23 data um for the annual grads and that would correspond with the 28 A throughF accountability refresh starting from that year. Only college prep courses that are on our TEA approved list um will count towards CCMR indicators. We will talk about subsequent updates in the next slide. Um but again also as a reminder reporting is required for um participation particularly if you are um working with an approved course we want to make sure that you're coding correctly um to ensure that your students are contributing to your
019CCMR um indicators. You may continue to work with college prep courses that are not approved for CCMR credit. Um but of course if they are not on the list um you will not receive CCMR credit for that but it will continue to be consistent for high school graduation requirements and TSIA waiverss with your partnering institutions. So, the subsequent changes, we wanted to um make sure to update folks that there will be an additional opportunity for college prep course providers to be added um in the summer of 2026 um to college prep courses for CCMR list version 1, which means that that will impact the class of 2027 um which we just spoke about. The agency will open an application window to consider new college prep courses for inclusion um in August. This means that this
020application will serve dual purposes to add to the version 1.0 list and to add to the version 1.1 list that corresponds with the class of 2028. Um we will be releasing the um results of this evaluation in the summer of 2026, likely around June, um to add new providers to courses to CCMR version 1.0, which means um your partners are eligible potentially to apply for consideration for use in the 26 27th school year. for the subsequent years after that um we will continue to open the application annually to continue to look at different graduation years. So as you see there um the 1.1 list is based off of 23 and 24 if we missed anybody. Um and it will be subsequently additive. So no provider that is currently approved or approved in the summer list
021that I just mentioned will come off of that list. um they will stay on that list through um version two or 2031. Um like I mentioned um and I do want to make a note for the providers that might be on the call. Providers will not be re-evaluated once they're approved. we will work with them, monitor, provide technical assistance, but any sort of evaluation done by the agency after you're on the list through 2031 will just be so that we can continue to monitor the success of the program over time. So, um, as you can see, this is a slide of a cluster of the following four years, and we we just wanted to emphasize that we will continue to update the college prep course provider list approvals every fall. with each list effective for
022the following academic year. And we will continue to ask that PE's reporting be specific to th those institutions that you're working with. And again, we'll talk about course codes and what that looks like um um in in the next couple of slides here. And again, just wanted to emphasize that um there are different ways for us to use college prep courses that aren't just for accountability and wanted to continue to to share that, especially if they're really great at preparing students for those assessments. for 2031 um sorry class of 2032 the 2031 2032 school year um we will re-evaluate all college prep courses using the most recent data and criteria available and at that time it will be the class of 2027 and 2028. That application will be released in fall 2029 um for the
023203132 school year accountability refresh 2033. Um the version 2.0 will use the 202728 grads. And we still want to emphasize that with these updated PES course codes, we're hoping that we can look at school district reporting um in in a little bit of a clearer identifying way with partners um to look more specifically at data so that we can get a a little bit more of an accurate picture um of of participation from the secondary side. So to summarize for 2526 school year and our next steps um it's very likely that folks are wrapping up their um memorandums of understanding right now. So we want to make sure that um folks are reflecting on securing partnerships um not being surprised if you receive any sorts of addendums or inclusion. So, wanted to also put that
024on folks's radar in case any superintendent were reached out to um saying, you know, we have an addendum because it's a 2-year. We've heard from some folks that there's a 5-year um and so with this transition period and timeline um just to expect different changes that might happen um with your um partnership agreements, course enrollments for 2526. So, this upcoming section, it's highlighted in blue cuz we will transition into that. We want to make sure that um school districts are supported in identifying specific PES course codes for your district's college prep course provider. We did add in more um in May and that those students are 12th grade students enrolled in the appropriate new PES course code specific to your provider. Um, and we we'll talk about this in the latter portion of this presentation,
025but really begin rethinking master scheduling for 2627. Um, starting early knowing that the the list is already available for who is an approved partner. Um and uh really looking at are there opportunities to improve the outcomes of the students as we're as we're continuing to serve in and really look at a datadriven approach to your partnership to say you know who how are we approaching this TSI waiver and how are we coding the students in in our system to to help along with that. So really talking about the transparency between two partners to ensure that we're um reporting accurately but also serving students at the end of the day with this college prep course opportunity. So um like I mentioned for this next section, we're going to talk a little bit about enrollment and coding
026of students in these new college prep course. This uh slide should look familiar to some practitioners that um work specifically with CCMR um but wanted to take some time to walk through um the Texas Student Data System Pee's data source information. The top two rows um pertain to college prep credit being earned. So those course codes are going to be really important this 2526 school year in 2627. um we still have those generic course codes um but we want to encourage people to use course codes specific to their providers. So we'll talk a little bit about that in the coming slides and you'll see a couple of examples there. Um the element and code table information is is there and this slide will be the slide deck will be available on the website. Um, but
027we want to make sure that the course sequences are correct. Um, and what is acknowledged for accountability and we also want to um highlight what determines the grade level when a college prep credit is earned. So, you definitely want to make sure of what that grade level is and ensure that they are grade 12 students. And it sometimes we'll get some questions um in our mailboxes for that. So you'll definitely want to have conversations with your PES folks. So the big highlight for 2526 for course codes is that each provider will get their own. They will get their own for mathematics and for English. So any provider that applied in this past application cycle will receive their own individual course codes. Um this is to help us um again pinpoint specifically by student um and
028and self-identifying by the district of who is partnering to offer this course. So as you can see on the top row of this table the college prep course mathematics um course code name and abbreviation that is the generic one. If you'll see on the bottom um there are specific coding norms um for for example you see there Amarillo College they also have one for English um and the course abbreviations all mean something and we'll look at that on the next slide. If your provider or if you are an education service center providing support for this, um if a provider does not appear in the course codes for 2526, um please use the general course code for this year and reach out to us at our email so that we can reach out to those that
029um possibly did not apply in this past um evaluation and encourage them to provide um to to apply this coming fall for future consideration. We want to make sure to try and give course codes to every institution or program that needs one. Unfortunately, we cannot add them for the 2526 school year, which is why um we're encouraging you to use the general if your partner does not have an individual code. Um, so definitely let us know because we want to make sure that we're accommodating um and encouraging folks to either apply um or participate um with you all as partners. So the next couple of slides are going to have quite a bit of detail for the course code conventions and course abbreviation conventions. Um on the next couple slides there's a little bit of
030a friendlier um uh view of explanation but I wanted to highlight that this would be a really great slide to to give to any PES coordinators or folks helping with um coding in PS um correctly for your students. Um there are certain norms like character length, um prefixes like college prep CP, um certain mathematical um unique codes for math and English, certain digits, um CU to represent college or university, ESC to represent ED education service center, and other to represent unique partnerships and collaborations that support some of this work. So, we'll go to the next slide and look a little bit closer at the distribution of how these codes operate. So, as you'll see there, college prep courses for math and English have um traditionally started with a CP. We're continuing that. Um the course
031codes have eight characters in length. Um, for mathematics specifically, the 1112 in the middle of the section indicates to us that this is a mathematics course. Um, and then the final two digits are specific to that particular institution. For the course abbreviations, um, we still carry through that CP stands for college prep course. This helps us identify it a little bit faster. That first M stands for mathematics. And then the final five characters provide a unique um to the course and its provider um breakdown. So Amarillo at the start and CU for college. The same um kind of principles apply for our English language arts courses. Um and so um we'll start with that eight characters in length. Each course code begins with a CP. um English has its own particular um middle section to
032um make it stand out. The final two digits again are unique to that course code. So you'll see there education service center region one specific to that um provider CP for the course abbreviation college prep courses the first E indicating English and then the final five characters uniquely identifying the course and its providers. So, how can we uh find these um course codes? There was an update to the TSDS website. So, that link should take you directly to the 2526 um course codes. Wanted to show a visual in case um people needed to find it. It's in the references section at the very top for course codes. Um, as you'll see here at the end, if you can see my mouse, um, there is a course code change log. That is where it will be
033reflected that these course codes in particular were added that on that May 22nd date. So, um, I I I know that um, that's not a traditional date for posting course codes and changes. So, um, if you are if if you or your district or or you've heard it as an education service center have run into any problems, I would probably put in a TIMS ticket um because I I know that for our sis vendors, they might still need some time to refresh. So, wanted to make sure to point that out um in case there were any conflicts with um uh some of the course codes as as you all work through adding these to your master schedules. And um now as opposed to the two courses, the two generic courses at the very top, like
034I said, those still exist. You will encounter um two courses per each applicant that applied. So, Amarillo, Angelina, Colin, uh um ESC1, the list is is pretty long now. Um so, we definitely want to make sure that folks are aware of who you all are partnering with. And we we have some Q&A um slides that are going to follow this one to talk about, you know, maybe you're a really large district and you work with multiple providers, you know, making sure that that campus knows which provider down to what student is using which service. We also wanted to provide the links um in the 2526 um TWEDS to the PEM submission timelines for this upcoming school year just so that folks are are are aware and also the the LEA responsibilities that are also available
035in case um there are any updates or you have any new superintendent that might need to refresh on what it means to um submit the data for these courses. Um, I did want to share a reminder that there is no CCMR verifier for college prep courses. Um, so we really want to ensure that your 12th grade students are being coded correctly. And that that definitely goes back to that one particular slide that outlined the course code, the sequence, the attempt, and the grade. So making sure that um we're coding with those indicators specifically. So like I mentioned, we we've received a couple of questions and wanted to put them um into this slide deck in case um you have intradist transfer or outofd district or highly mobile students. Um if a student transfers from one
036campus to another within the same district, should the course code remain the same or change? And this really comes down to if your district works with lots of partners, you're really going to want to make sure of what campus they're moving from to the next. So, um, like I mentioned, if it's a single provider, the high across all the high school campuses in your district, the same course code should be used to indicate that provider. Um, if it's the latter and you have campuses within within the district that are allowed to select their own college prep course providers, that course code should reflect the provider with whom the student completed the course. So, if the student completed prior um to transferring in that first semester with one provider, that original provider code should be reported
037and stay consistent. If the student is highly mobile, for example, um or an an outofd district transfer, um if that student transfers from one to another, what code should they use? If the student completed the code uh the course at a district prior to transferring, the original provider's code should be reported. If the student did not complete the course prior to transferring to another district and is transferred to a new district's college prep course, the course code should reflect the new provider's course code if the student completes the new course successfully. So again, really want to be intentional to who is providing these courses, especially when you put it into PES and in particular in 2627 when we have a uh an approved college prep course list. Um you if you are partnered with an
038approved partner, you're going to want to make sure to code that um student correctly. So, how do we want to um plan for college prep course implementation, whether that's with an approved provider or a non-approved provider moving forward, we also wanted to recall to the Texas Education Code um that states each school district shall partner at with at least one institution of higher ed to develop um courses for math or English in this subject and that they should be designed for 12th 12th grade level um students um that have uh an end of course assessment that does not meet college readiness standards or um coursework that indicates that the student is not ready to perform entry level college course work. So essentially we wanted to make sure to recall to um ensure that college prep
039courses as a tool and as you see on the next slide they are still courses that have been around for different purposes and we want to continue to support those purposes um um especially if if really good partnerships are happening. So um in 2627 for accountability if they are an approved provider you can continue to work with them for the CCMR accountability point in both uh in reading language arts and if we have approved mathematics providers um high school graduation requirements and TSIA preparation. on this uh on this slide, we wanted to go into a little bit more detail because we know that asus are being developed or as conversations are being had at school districts, um we wanted to make sure to provide um information that that could be relevant or deeper to some
040of the conversations as you make decisions on how you will move forward with offering college prep courses. So, of course, with accountability, we've this has been the major topic of this conversation. Um, graduation requirements. Um, so this language is specifically from the high school grad requirements in Texas administrative code as an elective for English or math. um an English credit as a fourth English credit um and in a to and to earn an endorsement um for students that complete a certain number of mathematics credit credits in a in a certain sequence. Um and then of course wanted to make sure that especially for our secondary partners, we are talking intentionally about TSIA exemptions and what they mean for your students progression to college. Um, and just calling back to what the TSIA was meant to
041do in its determination for students being ready to take entry level, college level coursework um, and what it means for a student to actually earn that exemption. Again, we wanted to um make sure to highlight that these are college readiness assessments and courses, right, with our college prep courses. And the whole intention of this evaluation is to make sure that we are in alignment with these other assessments that set the course and par for Texas um college readiness in the state. So really thinking about how we're going to continue to offer courses for students for our master scheduling and um for accountability um overall. So, not just thinking about inside the box, you know, if if if if you're working with an approved college prep course, English language arts course, and not um a math
042course, like how are we um kind of having those conversations at the at the district level, the campus level, so that um folks understand the different distinctions and how the courses can be used, the assessments can be used um etc. We wanted to highlight some key qualities for an effective college prep course partner. Um, and three main themes came up from that. Student metriculation, understanding where your students um may be going um locally, regionally or statewide. Um really understanding those patterns at your campus and district. Um TSIA waiver recognition. um we can't emphasize enough and we'll talk a little bit about that data piece um on on one of the bullets below and statutory compliance. Um so with the student centered approach really taking a look at supporting students in where they metriculate and intentionally
043ensuring that these students have the opportunity to take that TSIA exemption to those institutions that you're partnering with. Um, so for example, if you're in South Texas and you want to, you know, partner with, for example, region one and, you know, a lot of your students um, go to the local institutions, um, knowing that that might be a really good opportunity for that student, um, and and really looking at the patterns at a high level, making sure that the instruction that's being provided is focused on college readiness. You've heard me mention a lot the TSIA, ACT, and SAT. um alignments, but making sure that the course is focused on trying to get that student to achieve a college readiness level because inevitably we want them to be successful in their entry-le college level coursework. Um
044and that's that's part of what um was so key to our evaluation. We also want to make sure that um the TSIA waiverss are recognized and that the courses are being designed to the Texas education code and that institutions are accepting those courses as meeting those TSIA waiver requirements. Um and um we didn't dive deep into it in this particular session, but for the TSIA um waiver requirements at an institution, we want to make sure that they are acknowledging that for the student, not just for the accountability credit, but because that student went through the course in partnership with your institution and should be um supported uh to enroll in entry- level, college level coursework. Um, and making sure to maintain documentation, um, which would be yourus, but also continued conversations with your higher ed
045partners, um, the faculty, deans, um, to ensure that, um, the courses are on par with college readiness. Provide clear guidance on course design and delivery. um some uh we we had the opportunity to look at um all of theus that were submitted on behalf of um college prep course providers and we want to ensure that thoseus are remain consistent with instruction with grading and assessments so that we are um clear on what does it take for a student to contribute to the course pass the course and inevitably take that um waiver with them to the institution. Um again, understanding ofou expectations um and then going a little bit above um the norm for professional learning and implementation. How are your partners interacting with your district staff and educators to ensure that they have the tools,
046whether that's in um in a a Salesforce environment or a customuilt environment so that they can educate students at the high school level. um training so that they know how to offer the courses and coaching and overall touch points to deliver the courses successfully and that uh teachers feel prepared um to provide support to their students. And then lastly, making sure that with data we're supporting um not just the accountability goals, but if you are working with a partner that is approved, um they have an awareness of it and that they know if students are receiving CCMR credit or they know that if we have a consistent um scoring um that it's consistent for both the secondary and higher ed partners. So making sure that those things are consistent in yourus and in your everyday
047practice with providers um is just going to make this um continuously consistent. Um so we wanted to summarize on for the 2627 school year um you have two course options in particular continue to work with an approved provider. So that would look like partnering with someone on the list for 2627 and subsequently when we make the update in summer 2026 um working with some of those providers continue to provide the supports to students taking the course um whether that's how they currently exist or enhancements based off of this evaluation and continue to code those students performances um again consistently. Um there is no CCMR verifier for college prep courses as a reminder. So we want to make sure to run as many uh relevant reports as as possible to ensure that if you are working
048with an approved provider um you know that that student is properly coded. Um if you are working with a provider that's not currently approved for CCMR um you can continue to work with them as an institution. Um, but you have to proceed with the understanding that they're uh that that student will not garner CCMR credit. Again, they will for high school graduation requirements um and can also um be used as a preparation for um a college readiness assessment. And I do want to make sure to um mention the uh House Bill 3 reimbursements are still an option um for folks to offer for TSIA, ACT or SAT for an assessment for those for your students for every student. We So this was our first deep dive webinar that we're hosting. We do plan on hosting
049more um technical assistance um presentations throughout the year and we will make sure to take the participants from this call post on our website um for when we will have um quarterly um special topics where we'll dive a little bit deeper. We know that questions will consistently come in um over this this coming semester especially as we ramp up to 2627. Um so this was just kind of the introductory dive into um the evaluation um the new course codes and planning for 2627. Tomorrow we do have a deep dive on the methodology for the evaluation in particular um the summary of the process key decision points and then a review of key metric metrics and analysis progression. Um, and that link will be in the chat for um, folks to identify with. We have a
050couple more um, minutes. So, I'm going to leave this deep dive webinar on the screen and I will go into the chat for some questions. Crystal, I can do you mind if I jump in for a little bit because I think this answers some of the questions. There's been a lot of questions on we need to separate. Can we go back to the slide where we talk about CCMR uh the approval of these courses for CCMR credit? I want to be very clear. We are not approving or disapproving college prep courses that you can partner with that you can offer. What what this approval process was about was looking at college prep courses as an indicator of college readiness. Those other indicators include TSI, SAT, ACT. It was looking at the data to see if
051these courses, students who only earned CCMR credit through college prep course completion, whether those students succeeded in first college level courses the same way that a student who earned college readiness credit through CCMR in TSI or hitting an ACT, SAT threshold and that is the basis for which these uh college prep course providers were approved because they met that standard of 60% or higher for first college level course performance or 50% and higher with at least 20 points in the faculty review. the the statute says that school districts must offer opportunity for college prep courses. It does not say that those college prep courses have to be available for CCMR credit. Um Crystal, go back to the slides where we showed the increase. College prep has not always been a part of um a big
052part of the CCMR credits that were earned, but you can see over time beginning in 2020 through 23, the significant increase in the number of students who were earning CCMR credit through no other means, not college readiness, not any other not career readiness, not any other college readiness, only by this CPC course and when these when the data began to be evaluated we have to look at that and say are students truly college ready when they complete a college prep course. We saw problems in the fact that over 50% of the students were not granted a waiver with their direct partner institutions when they enrolled the year after graduation. That is a problem. We saw that students were being successful in rates of about 20 to 30% as at the state average for those students
053who met the CCMR indicator through college prep courses only. And so what this is beginning to look at is measuring the success of these courses. We understand that there are many in influential factors uh when students enroll in college in their first college courses but 60% is the standard that CCMR has based and kind of rooted itself in. And so this becomes an alignment of college prep um across all indicators in CCMR. Our hope is that the work that is done this year with providers and in the coming years as we work to alignus to align standards to ensure that rigorous um engagement of students and the the uh assignments that they complete in this course that that brings that level up. But as Crystal mentioned, there are many reasons that you might choose to
054offer a college prep course that is working for you. Perhaps it is getting students prepared for TSI. Perhaps it is doing a good job of meeting other graduation requirements like an English credit, a fourth English credit. But for CCMR purposes only, those courses that were listed will be the first courses that will be introduced in 2627. It is not the intent that they will be purif proliferated across the state of Texas because you want to make decisions based in the best interest of your students. As Crystal mentioned, if no students from your high school metriculate out to West Texas, you wouldn't want to form a partnership with West Texas because that waiver wouldn't benefit the student in the end. So again, we're trying to bring this back to a studentfocused are we truly preparing students
055for the task that we're giving them credit for, which in this case would be college readiness. So, I just want to make sure that we're all clear on that. All college prep courses, your yourus with your various partners continue to be valid. But if that is the only method by which a student would earn college readiness, if that provider is not on the list, the student will not earn college readiness for that. If that student is well prepared for uh the TSI at the end of that course, they will earn it through TSI credit or if they meet any of the other indicators. But for this as a standalone indicator in CCMR, we will continue to evaluate each year. In the fall, we'll release an updated list. As Crystal said, no one will fall off
056of version one's list. So, right now, we have a 1.0 0 list that will go into effect in 2627. And each fall after that, we will continue to add courses. No courses will fall off until we move to version two, which will be with the 2033 A throughF um refresh. And so in the fall of 30, we will announce that next um list, which will could very possibly have different standards on it. and that list will be implemented with the class of 2032. So that's two years in advance almost that you will have this information. Um and so hopefully that answers uh a few of the questions Crystal that were lingering in the chat. Um but I'll let you try to address some of the others that have maybe popped up. Yeah, I think um
057one that has consistently come up you clarified to say 425 um 26 there is a postponement and the list does not apply until 26 27. So, for your English courses, your math courses for next year, um, and let me go to that list, this slide in particular. Um, cuz I I if there's the biggest takeaway at least for this immediate year, is that you that we are postponing that decision until the following year. Um, and then I I know there was um a couple of questions on the additional listing and so um with the agency's lag in data, summer 26 is the soonest we could add to this list. We use the class of 22 and 23 data um which was the most recent data available to us for the evaluation. Um and so we
058again that is the quickest we can add to that particular list. So I know a couple of folks had that um question. Um so we are having um we we've had a couple of conversations um this morning with some college prep course providers that are intending to apply again um because they didn't get the math. They achieved the English but they didn't um achieve the math. And so we know um that at least almost all of them have confirmed that they will be moving forward um to be evaluated on that 2024 data to be included by that summer um for the class of 2627. Um let me go up here further. Um, so there was a a question about contact information for um providers and just generally knowing who these providers are. And I I
059I do want to emphasize what Valerie mentioned about intentionally partnering um with a partner that um will be of best benefit to um your students. So, um the the the list is there for folks if they do um want to reach out, but we do um we do know that we want um providers to particularly focus on their area where they were um approved. I think also I saw a question for a sample um for reference and that's definitely something that we can um emphasize. Um, and then, um, for those folks asking a couple different, um, Texas College Bridge, uh, questions in particular, I know we have some representatives on the chat that have been answering those. Um, but like I mentioned, we will absolutely be taking these questions and putting them into an FAQ
060and um intentionally asking our College Bridge partners or any other partner that was named in the chat um for some assistance on um naming some of those um folks. Let me see there's anything else I can answer just really quickly. Um I do want to uh go back and not only plug our deep dives but also our deep dive for tomorrow. This is a recorded session. It will be posted on the agency's website. These slides will be posted um and we will be sending out notifications for continued conversations um and webinars to further assist people making their determinations um moving forward. So we want to thank you all for your participation um in this. We hope to see you all tomorrow um and looking a little bit closer at the evaluation of this um particular
061process. So thank you all for participating.