Requirements to Become an Endorses Apprenticeship Program

1. Sign and Submit the Declaration & Apprenticeship Endorsement application.

2. Pay the $350 A-Track subscription fee before or by August 1st of the fiscal year beginning in the second year of endorsement.

3. Designate an Apprenticeship Director/Coordinator.  This person will be a point of contact for the program and will be responsible for the organization of A-Track and their institution’s program.

4. Obtain and setup A-Track software to house your curriculum mapping, documentation of clinical hours, and your institution’s program forms and documents.

5. Require students at your institution to acquire a subscription to A-Track.  The student cost is $45 per year or $90 for a lifetime.

6. Employ a process to ensure that students have a cumulative GPA of a 2.5 or better in all qualifying coursework that is used to meet the requirements to sit for the TDLR licensure examination.

7. The university/college program is encouraged to identify outcome measures representative of the program and make this information publicly available on a location of the program’s choice.  Program outcomes may include but are not limited to: graduation rates, retention rates, scholarships, employment rates, “first time passing” rates, and/or overall program GPA. Please let the Apprenticeship Endorsement committee know what program outcomes are posted and where.  This is for committee use only.

8. TSATA “Endorsed” programs will agree to not share TSATA educational materials/content with non-endorsed programs for copyright purposes.