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Membership enrollment for the 2024-25 school year has closed.

Early enrollment for the 2025-26 school year is now underway during our spring campaign. If you are not a current TCTA member, your professional liability insurance coverage and legal services for the 2025-26 membership year will begin on Aug. 1, 2025, or the date your application is received, whichever is later. Joining before Aug. 1 will give you access to TCTA's discount programs, free online continuing professional education hours and award-winning publications during the summer. 

Membership Categories & Dues
 

Thank you for choosing TCTA as your professional association. We will work hard to exceed your expectations and deliver outstanding service and membership benefits.

Join as a First-Time Active member for $110 if you are employed as a:

• Classroom teacher
• Librarian
• School nurse
• Speech pathologist
• Coach/athletic trainer
• Counselor
• Diagnostician/specialist
• Social worker

Renewing Active members pay $175 per year, the lowest rate among similar associations in Texas.

Join as an Associate member for $85 if you are employed as a:

• Teacher's aide
• Paraprofessional
• Substitute teacher
• Education secretary

TCTA also offers Retired memberships for $15 per year (without liability insurance coverage) and student memberships for people working on their initial certification.

Effective date of coverage

Legal services, as determined appropriate by the legal staff, are available only to members regarding employment-related matters arising after the effective date of membership. Your membership and professional liability insurance coverage for the 2025-26 school year (if provided for your membership category) become effective on Aug. 1, 2025, or when your completed membership application and full payment, or a signed payroll deduction authorization and required payments, are received at TCTA headquarters, whichever is later. Membership with TCTA is subject to the terms of benefits as defined on the membership application.

Professional liability insurance

The coverage included with membership for Active, Associate and Student members is provided by a wholly owned subsidiary of Nationwide® with an A.M. Best Rating of A+XV (superior). The coverage is provided through a purchasing group, and the insurer may not be subject to all insurance laws and regulations of the state. All coverage is subject to policy terms. Policy is available to members upon request.