In Houston Independent School District, you can make a bigger difference in your future and the future of our students. HISD is now hiring teachers, counselors, nurses, librarians, assistant principals, support staff, and all other roles for the 2023-2024 school year.
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Million-dollar grant provides no-cost pathway for aspiring educators through local institutions
Amid a growing national teacher shortage and declining educator preparation program enrollment, Houston Independent School District is creating pathways for aspiring educators to become teachers for free and get paid to do so. Through a new Grow Your Own grant program, participants will be able to earn their bachelor’s degree and Texas teaching license while being paid as a full-time teaching assistant in HISD.
Continue readingHISD hosting Campus Hiring Event Saturday, April 15
The HISD Teacher Recruitment and Selection Team will host a Campus Hiring Event on Saturday, April 15, from 9 a.m. – 12 p.m. at Delmar Fieldhouse (2020 Mangum Road, 77092).
Continue readingHISD hosting Campus Hiring Event Saturday, March 25
The HISD Teacher Recruitment and Selection Team will host a Campus Hiring Event on Saturday, March 25, from 9 a.m. – 12 p.m. at Booker T. Washington High School (4204 Yale Street, 77018).
Continue readingNorth Carolina teachers finding growth opportunities in HISD
Six months ago, Lauren Paquette was teaching in North Carolina and living at the poverty level with her husband and son. Now, that’s all changed.
“We started realizing, ‘We can’t afford to live here anymore,’” explains the Hobby Elementary School fourth-grade teacher. “I saw that HISD was coming back to Charlotte, and I said, ‘You know what, let’s just go and see what happens.’”
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That was this past July, and within weeks of meeting with HISD’s Teacher Recruitment team, Paquette had packed up her classroom and headed to Houston.
“For me, it was a $20,000 raise, and that’s huge,” said Paquette. “It’s almost a whole other salary.”
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