Be on the lookout on our HISD HR website or TeachinHISD.org for links to apply for the New Education System positions. These will be specific and tailored job descriptions, but will follow the standard HISD hiring process.

June 2023:

• Week of June 5th - principal selection begins
• Week of June 12th - teacher recruitment begins
• Week of June 19th - teacher screening
• Week of June 26th - teacher interviews/panels
• June 23: All NES principals are selected

July 2023:

• By July 3: NES Teacher Selection Finalized

All school-based roles will need to reapply for their role at an NES. Roles that are not required to reapply include centrally housed operations roles, such as custodial staff, nutrition services, transportation services.

If you are a teacher, counselor, librarian, assistant principal, or principal with a current contract and are in good standing with the district, you are guaranteed a similar position with a commensurate salary by the start of the 2023-2024 school year. If you do not have a current contractyou will need to reapply at your school or another school with an opening that matches your credentials and desires. You may then be selected for a role either at an NES campus or at a different campus.

Yes, you can apply for a vacant position in any school - whether they are NES or not.

Employees looking to separate from the Houston Independent School District (HISD) are required to submit an official electronic voluntary separation form. The electronic voluntary separation form is accessible online through OneSource Employee Self-Service.

Contract employees seeking to resign must submit their electronic resignation form by July 14th, 2023, according to Chapter 21 of the Texas Education Code. After this deadline, Houston ISD can file a complaint with the State Board for Educator Certification, potentially leading to sanctions and restricted reemployment eligibility for up to two school years.

 How to submit the electronic voluntary separation form in OneSource.

1. Sign into OneSource using your district username and OneSource password.
2. Select Employee Self Service
3. Select Voluntary Separation under Contracts and Forms
4. Fill out the requested information and click Send!

If you are eligible for retirement and have questions about the process, please contact the retirement storefront, at 713-695-5561.

Everyone must reapply for their jobs. If you are a principal, AP, teacher, counselor, or librarian on contract and in good standing, you will have a similar role with commiserate compensation at a school within HISD at the start of the 2023-2024 school year. If you are in any other role, you need to reapply, and may need to find a role at another school. Magnet programs and positions will be evaluated on a case by case basis.

All principal applicants will be interviewed by the Superintendent and the Division Superintendents.

Teachers are empowered and compensated for doing what they need to do and do best: Teach. The following compensation and supports are outlined in the table below:

The $10,000 stipend applies to all teachers within any NES school. Stipends for additional programs that have been allocated previously will be suspended at this time.

The Teacher Assistant role will be transitioned to the Teacher Apprentice role and will receive salaries based on the salary table above. Co-Teachers for Special Education will receive salaries based on the salary tables above.

Special education students will have all of their IEP services met within the NES structure, but in an enhanced way. One of the priorities across the district is to greatly improve services for our students with special needs.

These decisions will be made in the coming weeks. Magnet programs will be evaluated on a case by case basis.

The teacher evaluation system will be changing for all schools in the future.

Curriculum and lesson plans will be standardized for all NES schools. The lessons teachers teach and the pace at which content is delivered will be constructed by the school supports team. Within those lessons, teachers will have the ability to lead projects and other diverse learning experiences.

Athletics and Fine Arts will not immediately change as a result of NES implementation.

At this time, we do not anticipate changes to school start and end times for the 2023 school year. Please note that free before and after school care will be provided from 6:30 AM to 5:00 PM, but those are not “school hours.”

NES initiatives are academic and instructional improvements. There may be minor  to breakfast and other routines to increase learning and instruction time.

Becoming an NES school does not impact class size. You can anticipate they will stay roughly the same barring any dramatic changes in student population at the school.

The following schools are NES-designated campuses:

• Kashmere High School Feeder Pattern:
  • Berry ES
  • Cook Jr. ES
  • Elmore ES
  • Kashmere Gardens ES
  • Kashmere HS
  • Key MS
  • McGowen ES
  • Roderick R. Paige ES
    
    
• North Forest High School Feeder Pattern:
  • Forest Brook MS
  • Hilliard ES
  • Shadydale ES
  • North Forest HS
    
    
• Wheatley High School Feeder Pattern:
  • Atherton ES
  • Bruce ES
  • Dogan ES
  • Eliot ES
  • Fleming MS
  • Henderson N ES
  • Isaacs ES
  • Martinez R. ES
  • McReynolds MS
  • Pugh ES
  • Scroggins ES
  • Wheatley HS
    
    
• Other:
  • Patrick Henry MS
  • Highland Heights ES
  • Marshall ES
  • Sugar Grove Academy

All NES schools will be impacted in the same way in order to improve and make consistent performance across the feeder pattern. We are ultimately going to improve performance for ALL students at the middle school and secondary level, so will immediately begin improving performance at all elementary schools.

There will not be changes to where students are assigned to school as a result of NES, nor will NES impact which elementary schools feed into which middle schools, and which middle schools feed into high schools.

Professional Development dates for NES schools are August 7 - 11 and August 14-25. These dates are mandatory and staff will be compensated for their additional time.

All existing professional development will be paused at this time. Assistant Principals at NES Schools will attend training on August 7-11 and August 24-25.

Employees on approved protected leave, as outlined under the Family Medical Leave Act, will not be impacted. Summer plans should not be impacted unless they conflict with the required PD dates. If you have an immovable conflict during the teacher selection window OR summer PD schedule, reach out to your hiring manager. If a solution is not readily available, you need to consider applying for a role in another school outside of the NES.

We do not anticipate any changes to your student as a result of them having a parent in the school. All NES students will experience the same enhancements of the standardized, high-quality curriculum, dyad experience, trips in the 7th and 8th grade, and well-rounded experience that will set them up for a future of success.

Please email questions to NESinfo@houstonisd.org