High School Language Arts and History Teacher
About The Position
Pinnacles Prep is seeking a High School Language Arts and History Teacher who believes that all students, regardless of background, deserve a meaningful education in a culture where every student matters. The school is committed to cultivating curious, confident, and self-directed students who will lead and succeed in college, career, and their communities. Pinnacles Prep is small by design, knowing every student by name, story, strength, and need, with daily mentor meetings and weekly parent communication. The school's culture is guided by EPIC core values: Equity, Purpose, Integrity, and Collaboration. They are intentionally diverse in students, staff, and board, reflecting the collective diversity of the student body and community. The school values context over content, with students engaging in 9-week, place-based interdisciplinary projects rooted in the Wenatchee Valley, applying standards learned in foundational courses.
Requirements
- Relevant teaching experience and a record of gap-closing results is highly preferred
- Current WA State Teacher Certification
- Willingness to obtain CTE Certification
Nice To Haves
- Spanish speakers and persons of color are strongly encouraged to apply
Responsibilities
- Daily Instruction of students using democratic classroom techniques
- Serve as a mentor and facilitate High School and Beyond planning with scholars in Basecamp
- Embody mission and vision of school
- Teach, re-teach and enforce school-wide systems, routines, and procedures
- Provide engaging, motivating, and rigorous project-based instruction in whole-class and individual settings
- Provide targeted academic support and tutoring to small groups or individual students based on data from formative assessments
- Analyze student data in collaboration with the principal, content team, and grade level team.
- Implement data tracking system and use data to inform instructional development and delivery
- Communicate regularly and proactively with students and families
- Provide weekly feedback for students that reflect mastery on learning targets, standards and competencies
- Collaborate with other staff members and actively participate in all professional learning activities
- Work to continuously improve effectiveness in your instructional practices, and incorporate feedback from weekly observations by the principal
- Use feedback to make productive changes in performance
- Participate in additional activities including field trips, intensive academic support sessions, and other required programs as needed throughout the year, such as parent empowerment workshops.
- Be open to feedback, continue development as professional, and take responsibility for student outcomes and achievement
- Co-teach 2 sections of 9-10th grade project-based Language Arts interdisciplinary curriculum with the math/sci teacher
- Teach 1 section of 11th Grade Contemporary World Problems
- Teach 1 section of 12th Grade Civics
- Teach 1 section of Basecamp Advisory on Fridays
- Use competency-based assessment to give feedback on mastery of priority competencies
- Collaborate with co-teachers and families to support tremendous academic growth for multilingual learners and students with disabilities
- Curate exhibition nights in collaboration with co-teacher and Pinnacles Prep administrators
Benefits
- Full benefits package
- Enrollment into the WA School Employees Benefits program
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
High school or GED
