Harmony Public School, a statewide public charter school system, is offering up to $10,000 to new teachers in the district who are recipients of the Teacher Incentive Allotment (TIA).
Harmony Public Schools is a Texas-born, Texas-wide public charter school system with campuses serving PreK-Grade 12 students in 23 cities across the state, including Greater Houston, DFW, San Antonio, Austin, El Paso, Waco, Lubbock, Midland-Odessa, Bryan, Beaumont, and the Rio Grande Valley. The curriculum emphasizes STEM skills, character education, project-based learning, and college readiness.
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Harmony has awarded over $12 million to its teachers in 2025 alone. The TIA aims to help teachers remain in the classroom to help create ways for them to earn salaries of up to six figures.
Established during the 86th Texas Legislature in 2019, the fund will be rewarded to highly qualified teachers. A recent discovery by the Texas Education Agency (TEA) during the 2023-24 school year revealed that the retention rate for designated teachers at Harmony exceeded the statewide average by eight percentage points.
With the school continuing to increase its TIA payouts each year, In August the district plans to distribute bonuses to nearly 1,200 teachers, with some educators receiving more than $20,000 in annual bonuses.
The latest TIA initiative is set to attract teachers from outside the Harmony system who are seeking new career opportunities. In addition to retaining their existing TIA bonuses, newly hired teachers at Harmony will receive a sign on bonus ranging from $1,500 to $10,000. The final amount will depend on the teacher’s TEA level and the agency’s assessment of the campus’s level of need.
A full list of campuses and their corresponding sign-on bonus amounts by designation level can be found here.
Additionally, if currently a member of Harmony, you may be eligible to receive a bonus if you transferred from a low economic school to a high economic school. Teachers making this transition can earn between $2,000 and $8,000 in bonus compensation as well.
Harmony Public Schools is currently accepting applications for the 2025-2026 school year for both students and team members.
