5th Grade Math Teacher [IMMEDIATE]

Lighthouse Community Charter School • Oakland, CA

52d

About The Position

Lighthouse Community Public Schools is looking for talented 5th Grade Math Teacher to join our team who is relentlessly committed to ensuring that traditionally underserved students of color achieve our mission of completing college, securing a career of their choice, and becoming lifelong changemakers in their communities. LCPS teachers believe that this important mission is not only attainable; it is essential to transforming our Oakland community. If you are inspired by our mission and vision and want to be a changemaker in students' lives here in Oakland, then please apply and join us! You will embody the following Core Competencies to be an effective change-agent: Be an anti-racist educator committed to educational justice as evidenced by respectful and supportive relationships, well-planned instruction, rigorous daily assessment, and daily opportunities for students to revise and refine their work. Facilitate cognitively engaging student-centered learning. Demonstrate a keen belief in and ability to create, collect and analyze achievement data to drive student learning and outcomes for all students Be a strong community builder and team collaborator Model and foster a growth mindset with agency, persistence, and flexibility Be a collaborative and responsible professional educator Your responsibilities will include: INSTRUCTIONAL VISION Specific teaching responsibilities of this role include: Team teach core subjects to different sections of students and a grade-level Crew/advisory each day. In LCPS' Elementary instructional model teachers in grades K-1 teach all subjects in a self-contained classroom and in grades 2-5, teachers team teach ELA/Humanities, Math, Science, Fitness, and Arts allowing teachers to specialize in fewer content areas taught to two classes of students per grade. All elementary math and reading teachers teach small group phonics instruction. In addition to your content courses, all LCPS teachers are assigned an advisory (known as a "Crew"), morning or afternoon duty (yard supervision) up to 2 times per week, and either a guided study hall or designated ELD course depending on the need of the school and the teacher's specific licensure. Demonstrate culturally responsive pedagogy which gives students the skills, practice, and daily opportunity to grapple with rigorous content each day and includes unrelenting high expectations and an assets-based approach for every student. Plan, internalize, and implement effective, grade-level standards-based curriculum, units, and lessons that are learner-driven and are modified or differentiated while maintaining rigor to provide access and results for students with IEPs, African-American and ELL students. Ensure that students are at the center of their own learning and deeply engaged in ways that foster agency and self-direction. Utilize, collect, and analyze rigorous, student-engaged assessments, both formative and summative, to identify and address students' areas of growth and mastery of learning objectives. To include Altitude, Schoolology, MAP, as well as others. Additional Duties, as assigned by Supervisor CLASSROOM & SCHOOL CULTURE Builds and maintains classroom culture that is supportive and learning-centered, undergirded by strong management, efficient procedures and systems, but most evident in the full inclusion of African-American boys, students with trauma, and students with IEPs in the social and learning community. Create positive relationships by building nurturing and affirming teacher-student, student-student, and teacher-family partnerships with a focus on building a community of risk-taking, collaborative learners. PROFESSIONAL PRACTICES/STAFF CULTURE Grow and contribute as an educator, colleague, learner, and community member including engaging in professional development and your own growth as a teacher in service of student learning and outcomes. Demonstrate advocacy, flexibility, autonomy, and collegiality. Demonstrates self-awareness, reflects on practice with self and others, and acts on feedback. Demonstrate flexibility, and ownership of our collective results. Administer all policies and procedures in a professional and timely manner as mandated by LCPS, and state and federal agencies (i.e., attendance records, dress code, reporting of sexual/physical abuse). Are you ready to join an educational movement that is bigger than one classroom? If you are excited about the opportunity to foster and facilitate a progressive growth mindset in students and engage in transformational teaching, we are actively looking for student-centered, dedicated and dynamic teachers.

Requirements

• B.A. or B.S. required; Master's Degree, preferred
• Appropriate California Teaching Credential or commitment and ability to acquire one (must supply unofficial transcripts to verify eligibility if do not have a valid license)
• Valid Certificate of Clearance verifying professional fitness for all CA teachers of record, required (if have never held a COC must obtain one before can be fully hired and cleared to start)
• Deep knowledge of California Common Core State Standards, student-centered, mastery-based learning, curriculum planning, and data analysis, preferred

Nice To Haves

• 2+ years teaching urban youth with transformational results, preferred
• Familiarity navigating educational platforms
• Experience teaching in a progressive school model
• Bilingual in Spanish, preferred

Responsibilities

• Team teach core subjects to different sections of students and a grade-level Crew/advisory each day.
• Demonstrate culturally responsive pedagogy which gives students the skills, practice, and daily opportunity to grapple with rigorous content each day and includes unrelenting high expectations and an assets-based approach for every student.
• Plan, internalize, and implement effective, grade-level standards-based curriculum, units, and lessons that are learner-driven and are modified or differentiated while maintaining rigor to provide access and results for students with IEPs, African-American and ELL students.
• Ensure that students are at the center of their own learning and deeply engaged in ways that foster agency and self-direction.
• Utilize, collect, and analyze rigorous, student-engaged assessments, both formative and summative, to identify and address students' areas of growth and mastery of learning objectives. To include Altitude, Schoolology, MAP, as well as others.
• Builds and maintains classroom culture that is supportive and learning-centered, undergirded by strong management, efficient procedures and systems, but most evident in the full inclusion of African-American boys, students with trauma, and students with IEPs in the social and learning community.
• Create positive relationships by building nurturing and affirming teacher-student, student-student, and teacher-family partnerships with a focus on building a community of risk-taking, collaborative learners.
• Grow and contribute as an educator, colleague, learner, and community member including engaging in professional development and your own growth as a teacher in service of student learning and outcomes.
• Demonstrate advocacy, flexibility, autonomy, and collegiality.
• Demonstrates self-awareness, reflects on practice with self and others, and acts on feedback.
• Demonstrate flexibility, and ownership of our collective results.
• Administer all policies and procedures in a professional and timely manner as mandated by LCPS, and state and federal agencies (i.e., attendance records, dress code, reporting of sexual/physical abuse).

Benefits

• We provide a competitive compensation and benefits package, including a competitive salary and generous health and retirement benefits (100% employee health coverage/50% for dependents; 8% employer-matching for retirement program; medical and dependent FSA).

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Industry: Educational Services
• Number of Employees: 101-250 employees