Education
BY HALEY VELASCO
50 new CCISD staff members added for 2025-26 school year
CCISD adjusts rules, policy related to AI More requirements related to artificial intelligence are making their way into the school code at Clear Creek ISD after the board of trustees approved revisions to a pair of policies at its April 14 meeting. What’s happening? The district’s revisions to the two policies include: • Employees and students are allowed to explore and implement AI. • Students are only allowed to use AI with a teacher’s permission. • Using AI to complete an assignment in part or whole without teacher approval is considered academic dishonesty. • Teachers can use AI detection tools approved by CCISD to prove cheating.
New staff at CCISD
1 instructional coach at Ed White and Walter Hall elementary schools 0.5 teacher position for the choir program at Clear Creek High School 0.5 teacher position for the band program at Westbrook Intermediate 1 teacher for the new culinary arts program at Clear Lake High School 0.5 teacher position for the robotics and coding coursework at Space Center Intermediate 0.5 teacher position for advanced academics at Walter Hall Elementary 12 teachers, 34 paraprofessionals for special education services
Clear Creek ISD’s board of trustees at its April 14 meeting approved nearly $2.5 million in addi- tional staff for the 2025-26 school year, including 16 additional teachers and 34 paraprofessionals. The overview A large bulk of additional teachers and all additional paraprofessionals will be used for the district’s special education department, Robert Branch, CCISD’s assistant superintendent of human resources, said at the meeting. This includes programs such as dyslexia, alternative academics and the early childhood special education program, Branch said. Other positions approved include an elemen- tary instructional coach as well as visual, per- forming arts, career and technology education
NOTE: POSITIONS LABELED AS 0.5 INDICATE HALF OF A FULL-TIME POSITION.
SOURCE: CLEAR CREEK ISD /COMMUNITY IMPACT
teachers, including a new culinary arts teacher, according to district agenda documents.
Clear Creek ISD approves over $12.5M in contracts
CCISD’s recent contract, vendor purchases $5.2M for commercial property insurance $2.1M for special education, studio live production, identity management supplies and support
Vendor purchases are for restaurant equipment for the new culinary arts program at the Learner Support Center, cybersecurity and identification card services for students, among other items. A large bulk of contract and vendor purchases will be made through the 2023 bond, general, capital and federal funds, according to district agenda documents.
Clear Creek ISD’s board of trustees approved over $8.5 million in contract renewals and increases, as well as an additional $4 million with multiple vendors at its April 14 meeting. The gist Updated contract agreements are for special education equipment, security camera upgrades and wholesale supplies, among other items.
$1.2M for cybersecurity technology $1.8M for culinary arts equipment and identity card supplies
$1.2M for multicampus security camera upgrades
Total $12.5M
$1M for maintenance of playgrounds
SOURCE: CLEAR CREEK ISD/COMMUNITY IMPACT
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