TSDS PEIMS

Services provided to all LEAs at no cost; Region 1 ESC PEIMS Staff provides the following services to all of our LEAs in this region:

• Designate ESC PEIMS contact person and alternate;
• Inform the districts of pertinent PEIMS and TSDS documents;
• Communicate TEA submission and resubmission deadlines;
• Provide listing of the required records, data elements, and required code tables;
• Forward change/update communications from TEA;
• Respond to TIMS tickets for support questions regarding PEIMS;
• Monitor the completion of Superintendent Approvals; and
• Accept LEA PEIMS submissions in TSDS

Schedule of Services (available via contract):

Members of the PEIMS Coop will receive basic services plus the following enhanced services:

• Provide training sessions related to PEIMS such as but not limited to:
• Annual fall and spring update trainings;
• PEIMS records overview for the four PEIMS submissions (Fall, Mid-Year, Summer, and Extended);
• TSDS-PEIMS technical training as needed; and
• Present training sessions concerning TSDS Core Collections
• Charter School Waitlist
• ECDS
• SPPI-14
• Class Roster
• RFT
• Special Education Language Acquisition
• Child Find
• Training and Support for TSDS Upgrade Ed-Fi
• Provide telephone support and technical assistance with TSDS Core Collection submissions
• Assist districts with TSDS data submission to the TSDS system in order to meet published deadlines;
• Access to the New PEIMS Coordinator Academy
• Access to the “PEIMS Coordinator Monthly Updates” webinar
• Provide consultation and technical telephone support to the district’s PEIMS Coordinator and PEIMS-related personnel on:
• Texas Education Data Standards;
• Student Attendance Accounting Handbook;
• TSDS PEIMS usage, reports, and errors; and
• TSDS Unique ID discrepancies
• Texas Records Exchange (TREx)
• Contingent on meeting ESC due dates, provide additional data analysis by:
• Reviewing summary reports for data anomalies;
• Providing Ad hoc reports;
• Fall, Mid-Year, Summer, and Extended Collection custom reports as needed;
  • provide  submission summary reports to assist districts in determining that their submissions contain data for all records required by the collections;
• Access to the PEIMS Coop Sharepoint Site that includes
• Resource Repository including Checklists and Data Layouts
• Training Library
• Calendar of Events
• Archived LEA PEIMS Fall Disaggregation reports
• Access to Tableau Data Visualization and Analytics Dashboard Workbooks
• Budgeting Tools – Student, Staff, and Actual Financial Data
• PEIMS Data Dives – Student Fall, Discipline, CCMR
• Maintain a Regional database for five years (Region One associated LEA's);
• TSDS Incident Management System (TIMS) support in all components;

Please reach out to us if you want to receive more information on the PEIMS Coop.

Districts and charters occasionally need ESC PEIMS personnel assistance on-site to conduct in-district information sessions for campus and district administrators and PEIMS personnel. 

On-Site/virtual trainings will be assessed at half or full day sessions and are not included with Coop membership fee. Please reach out to us if you want to receive more information on requesting a PEIMS Staff Development.

Districts and charters occasionally need ESC PEIMS personnel assistance for processing the TSDS Collections. This would include extracting and submitting the TSDS Collections which will include Extraction of data, promoting, reviewing errors with LEA, meeting with staff for data quality verification. The LEA must provide a contact to serve as the liaison to the Campus and Special Program Coordinators for the corrections and data quality assurances prior to completing the TSDS Collections. Note: All coding determinations and data entry would still be done by the LEA. on-site to conduct in-district information sessions for campus and district administrators and PEIMS personnel. 

Please reach out to us if you want to receive more information in learning more about this service.