Clear Creek ISD to offer 8 new 2022-23 secondary courses

Clear Creek ISD secondary students will have eight new courses to choose from during the 2022-23 school year, after trustees approved course additions Nov. 15. Students will have new opportunities in welding and American Sign Language.

The new courses can be implemented with minimal cost and staffing impacts, said Susan Silva, CCISD’s assistant superintendent of teaching and learning.

Two new ASL classes in which students can develop and refine finger spelling skills will be available in 2022-23. Welding I will be available next school year at the new Clear View High School campus.

In the 2023-24 school year, CCISD will also launch Welding II, followed by a yearlong, two-credit welding practicum in the 2024-25 school year. It is being offered as part of Clear View’s new career and technical education program.

“I’m very happy to see the welding courses,” board President Jay Cunningham said. “I’m very thankful to see that added.”

Several new courses are also geared for students utilizing special education services. The semester-long Making Connections I and II courses are designed to meet the needs of students on the autism spectrum or with other related disorders by providing direct instruction with social skills.

There will also be a new semesterlong Community Transportation course in which special education students will research and access public transit options and learn to do so appropriately and safely.