To the Administrator Addressed (TAA) Correspondence
The purpose of this communication is to inform school systems about the extension of the current Commissioner’s List of Approved Prekindergarten Instruments for use through the 2027–2028 school year.
The Commissioner's List, with detailed information about each data collection tool, is available on the Educator Resources page of the TEA website and on the Data Tool Selection Guide webpage.
School systems, in the provision of high-quality, full-day prekindergarten for 4-year-old students, must collect data regarding student progress in the domains of health and wellness, language and communication, emergent literacy reading, emergent literacy writing, and mathematics at the beginning (BOY), middle (MOY), and end of the year (EOY) by using one or more of the tools on the Commissioner's list. The BOY and EOY raw data are submitted to the Early Childhood Data System (ECDS) annually (TEC §29.169 and §28.006).
To fully meet the requirements for the BOY and EOY submissions, each student must be assessed in all five domains, and data must be collected and reported for those five domains for each student.
For questions, please submit a help desk ticket via the Early Childhood Education support portal.