43 CCISD Seniors Commit to Teaching

Clear Creek Independent School District held its first committED to Education signing ceremony on April 21, with 43 seniors pledging to become teachers. (ccisd.net) The students came from Clear Brook, Clear Creek, Clear Falls, Clear Lake and Clear Springs high schools. They were enrolled in the district’s Child Guidance or Teacher Education Training programs. (ccisd.net) Each senior signed a letter of intent to pursue a career in education and received a guaranteed interview with Clear Creek Independent School District after completing a degree program. Britani Moses, the district’s executive director of human resources, said the event was meant to recognize students choosing “this vital profession.” (ccisd.net) The ceremony tied together the district’s human resources and career and technical education departments. Clear Creek Independent School District said those programs give students classroom experience before graduation and create a direct path back into district jobs. (ccisd.net) Superintendent Karen Engle used the event to frame teaching as a hometown pipeline. She said the district has a “special legacy” of graduates who return to work in the same schools that trained them. (ccisd.net) The keynote speaker was Marshall Munson, a Clear Falls High School Teacher Education Training alumnus who is now Clear Creek High School’s Teacher of the Year. His appearance gave the district a ready-made example of the return path it wants these seniors to follow. (ccisd.net) Clear Creek Independent School District said it already employs 38 active substitutes who came through the same student programs. The district has more than 5,000 staff members across 45 campuses, giving it a large in-house labor pool to recruit from. (ccisd.net) (discoverccisd.com) The local push comes as Texas continues to rely heavily on teachers who enter classrooms without certification. The Texas Education Agency said uncertified teachers remained the majority of newly hired teachers in 2025, while traditional certification continued to decline. (tea.texas.gov) Texas has also listed bilingual education, career and technical education, computer science and special education among statewide teacher shortage areas for 2024-25. That leaves districts looking for candidates years before they are ready to lead a classroom. (teadev.tea.texas.gov) For Clear Creek Independent School District, the point of the ceremony was simple: identify future teachers while they are still seniors, keep them connected through college, and try to bring them home. (ccisd.net)