Elementary PE Teacher (26-27SY)

Lighthouse Community Public Schools • Oakland, CA

5d • $61,500 - $105,000

About The Position

Elementary PE Teacher (26-27SY) — Competencies and Qualifications Lighthouse Community Public Schools is looking for a talented Elementary PE 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 pursuing high academic outcomes for all students, 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

Requirements

• B.A. or B.S., required
• Appropriate California Teaching Credential required or commitment and verified ability to acquire one (must supply unofficial transcripts to verify eligibility if do not have a valid license in CA or another state or country)
• 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)
• Knowledge of California Common Core State Standards, student-centered, mastery-based learning, curriculum planning, and data analysis, preferred
• 2+ years teaching urban youth with transformational results, preferred
• Familiarity navigating educational platforms
• Experience teaching in a progressive school model; preferred
• Bilingual in Spanish, preferred

Nice To Haves

• Knowledge of California Common Core State Standards, student-centered, mastery-based learning, curriculum planning, and data analysis, preferred
• 2+ years teaching urban youth with transformational results, preferred
• Experience teaching in a progressive school model
• Bilingual in Spanish

Responsibilities

• In LCPS’ Elementary instructional model, teachers in grades TK-2 teach all subjects in a self-contained classroom, and in grades 3-5, teachers team teach in a more departmentalized setting ELA/Humanities, Math, Science, Fitness, PE, and Arts, allowing teachers to specialize in fewer content areas taught to two classes of students per grade.
• All elementary math and ELA teachers teach small-group phonics/reading instruction.
• All LCPS teachers lead an advisory (known as a “Crew”) daily, 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 adopted, effective, grade-level standards-based curriculum, units, and lessons that are learner-driven and maintain rigor.
• Differentiate curriculum while still maintaining rigor to provide grade-level access and results for all student subgroups, including students with IEPs, English language learners, African-American, and Latinx students.
• 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 Schoology, MAP, as well as others.
• Additional Duties, as assigned by Supervisor
• Build and maintain a 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, and collegiality.
• Demonstrate self-awareness, reflect on practice with self and others, and act 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

• competitive salary
• generous health and retirement benefits (100% employee health coverage/50% for dependents; 8% employer-matching for retirement program; medical and dependent FSA, Employee Assistance Program, life insurance, optional 403b retirement plan, and other optional insurance benefits)

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level