Clear Creek ISD Superintendent Dr. Greg Smith, center, congratulates the district’s Elementary Teacher of the Year Kristi Roney and Secondary Teacher of the Year Dale Jensen during Rotary Teacher of the Year Luncheon May 16 at South Shore Harbour Resort.
By Mary Alys Cherry
Forty-four Clear Creek ISD teachers were honored and two were named Teachers of the Year when three Bay Area Rotary Clubs hosted a luncheon May 16 at South Shore Harbour Resort to celebrate excellence in education.
Dale Jensen, who has 18 years experience in the education field and teaches 9 th through 12 th grade students at Clear View High, is CCISD’s Secondary Teacher of the Year, and Falcon Pass teacher Kristi Roney, who has taught both third and fifth grades in her 10 years as an educator, is the district’s Elementary Teacher of the Year.
Both were greeted with thunderous applause when CCISD Superintendent Dr. Greg Smith called out their names before the crowd of several hundred educators, Rotarians, elected officials and members of the business community who came to honor those who mean so much in our lives.
Besides the two winners, others finalists for the key honor were Bonnie Jeffcoat of Sandra Mossman Elementary, Stephanie Hirsch of North Pointe Elementary, Katie Batenhorst of Clear Creek High and Tiara Toney of Clear Creek Intermediate.
Rotary Club Presidents John Branch of the Space Center, Amy Kilgore of League City and Scott Stillman of Seabrook prepare to address the crowd at the Rotary Teacher of the Year Luncheon at South Shore Harbour Resort.
Campus Teachers of the Year
(Campus – Teacher of the Year)
Armand Bayou Elementary – Deborah Morgenthaler
Bauerschlag Elementary – Molly Malloy
Bay Elementary – Megan Tietz
Brookwood Elementary – Betty Fishback
Clear Lake City Elementary – Emily Tyler
Falcon Pass Elementary – Kristi Roney
Ferguson Elementary – Tammy Cornor
Gilmore Elementary – Brenda Isom
Goforth Elementary – Carissa Petersen
Greene Elementary – Elizabeth Wallace
Hall Elementary – Susan Johnson
Hyde Elementary – Melissa Hoover
Landolt Elementary – Alyssa Rollins
League City Elementary – Shelly Delaney
McWhirter Elementary – Margo Lewallen
Mossman Elementary – Bonnie Jeffcoat
North Pointe Elementary – Stephanie Hirsch
Parr Elementary – April Guseman
Robinson Elementary – Angie Lohman
Ross Elementary – Carol Brunson
Stewart Elementary – Priscilla Thompson
Ward Elementary – Shirin Jalufka
Weber Elementary – Miriam Cortes
Wedgewood Elementary – Melissa Thornton
Whitcomb Elementary – Ma Corazon Estrada
White Elementary – Tamiko Brown
Bayside Intermediate – Jason Mummert
Brookside Intermediate – Sheryl Swiggert
Clear Creek Intermediate – Tiara Toney
Clear Lake Intermediate – Tracy Johnson
Creekside Intermediate – Staci Weber
League City Intermediate – Jennifer Campbell
Seabrook Intermediate – Matthew Risoldi
Space Center Intermediate – Laura Ozinga
Victory Lakes Intermediate – Darlene Schlitzberger
Westbrook Intermediate – Jennifer Kernohan
Clear Brook High School – Angela Vong
Clear Creek High School – Katie Batenhorst
Clear Falls High School – Kurt Oian
Clear Horizons Early College – Natandra McGill
Clear Lake High School – Bryan Buffaloe
Clear Path High School – Molly Kistler
Clear Springs High School – Candice Thibodeaux
Clear View High School – Dale Jensen
