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CFISD expands Teacher Residency Program for 2025-26 school year
The CFISD Teacher Residency Program is welcoming approximately 76 new resident teachers at 20 total campuses across the district for the 2025-26 school year.
The Teacher Residency Program, which was first implemented during the 2024-25 school year, featured seven residents at four campuses. The program allows aspiring teachers at the district’s partnering universities to receive yearlong training on a campus with an experienced teacher through a “co-teach” model. Resident teachers also receive a $25,000 salary during their residency year.
“We are thrilled to expand the CFISD residency program,” said Laura Nichols, teacher residency and student teacher coordinator. “This investment in our future teachers shows our dedication to finding top talent for our incredible students. These residents will go on to be highly qualified CFISD teachers and affect the lives of countless CFISD students in their careers. We feel lucky to get to work with them, their host teachers and campuses to help them grow into teachers that can continue to make CFISD a destination district in our area.”
Resident teachers are placed on campuses with principals who are excited to support the Teacher Residency Program while also serving campuses that have high needs in certain content areas.
Selected residents had to apply for the program and were selected based on criteria that includes video essays, coursework, connection to CFISD, life experiences and recommendations. The 2025-26 cohort includes many students with 4.0 GPAs, and more than half are CFISD graduates. Almost half will also serve in critical need areas of special education and bilingual education.
“I’m most excited about the classroom exposure this year,” said Luis Rodriguez, a CFISD teacher resident for the 2025-26 school year. “I’ve spent a lot of time in my college classrooms learning about how to run my own classroom, but it’s not really until you get into an actual classroom that you get the most hands-on experience.”
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Source: CFISD
