Educational Degree Pathways

For Aspiring Students

Classroom To Career

As a joint effort between ESC Region 13, Lamar Institute of Technology (LIT), and ACU, the Classroom to Career program meets the needs of your district’s students. Connecting driven students with mentoring faculty members, the Classroom to Career Teaching Track offers students the opportunity to pursue a career in education, become certified teachers, and enter your talent pool of qualified teaching aids upon high school graduation. Capability to become paraprofessionals by the time of graduation.

• Earn a Bachelor of Science in Integrated Studies with a concentration in Psychology and Communication (60 credit hours) in as little as two years.
• Complete the ESC Region 13’s Educator Certification Program (ECP) and become a Certified Texas Teacher.

Exclusive cohort and up to a $2,400 scholarship for ESC Region 13 paraprofessionals.

For Motivated Paraprofessionals

Level up with a B.S. in Integrated Studies

As a joint effort between ESC Region 13, Lamar Institute of Technology (LIT), and ACU, dedicated to improving the quality of teachers your school should have, the Level Up program provides paraprofessionals in your school
district an opportunity to earn their Texas teacher certification through enrollment in the ACU’s Online Bachelor of Science in Integrated Studies program during their co-enrollment in ESC Region 13’s Educator Certificate
Program. Aimed at helping paraprofessionals connect their goals with their strengths, the Level Up program goes beyond the role of taking online classes individually and offers individual mentorship to expand their own
learning and teaching experience.

• Earn a Bachelor of Science in Integrated Studies with a concentration in Psychology and Communication (60 credit hours) in as little as two years.
• Complete the ESC Region 13’s Educator Certification Program (ECP) and become a Certified Texas Teacher.

For Driven Educators

New Teacher Pathway and Grow Your Own Dual Credit Instructor Programs

Focused on adding new teachers into the teaching profession in the state of Texas, the New Teacher Pathway responds to today’s industry challenges through an innovative solution that acquires, prepares, and motivates potential teachers to answer the call toward educating the next generation. Offered as an alternative method, New Teacher Pathway helps selected, predetermined individuals to become newly certified and licensed teachers for future employment at statewide ISDs. Additionally, the Grow Your Own Dual Credit Instructor program provides high school teachers with opportunity to obtain the required credentials to serve as the teacher of record at a post-secondary institution offering academic dual credit courses in your district. This program also allows district teachers to teach Classroom to Career courses as potential affiliate faculty for ACU.

• Flexible programs to meet the needs of the district and advance academic excellence.
• Cultivate, nurture, and empower your own teachers.
• Participants will earn a Master of Education in Instruction and Learning through ACU Online, with 18-credit hours dedicated to a specific academic area.*
• Graduates will meet SACSCOC requirements to become eligible to teach academic dual-credit for partnering post-secondary institutions.

*Additional subject areas will be added as the program grows.

Participating Region 13 educators can be awarded up to $1,950 in scholarship.

For Influential Leaders

Doctor of Education in Organizational Leadership, ED.D.

Recognized as one of the best online Ed.D. programs in the country by Fortune, ACU’s online Ed.D. in Organizational Leadership builds scholar-practitioners into tomorrow’s leaders by training today’s district administrators. Focused on enhancing your district admins’ gifts and talents through reflective practice, this program seeks to guide individuals toward finding the meaning and purpose behind their work.

• Positive Leadership
• Learning with Emerging Technologies
• Conflict Management
• Higher Education

With the capability of being completed within a 3- to 5-year time frame, interested individuals can join a cohort of Central Texas’s finest educators and leaders toward achieving their terminal degree. Watch your district’s quality grow by challenging your rising stars to become future leaders in education.

Participating ESC Region 13 educators can be awarded up to a $7,000 scholarship.