Fitness and Health Elective Teacher (Middle School) (22-23SY)

Job Description

The Organization

Lighthouse Community Public Schools

At Lighthouse Community Public Schools we are engaged in an educational movement that goes beyond our classrooms working to disrupt inequities by providing our students and families exceptional educational opportunities every day. Grounded in our core values of community, integrity, agency, love, and social justice rooted in the EL Education Model, LCPS is a leader in fostering innovative schools achieving exceptional student outcomes where each child is at the center of their own learning. Our mission is to prepare diverse students for college, a career of their choice, and to be lifelong changemakers. Founded in 2002, LCPS operates two high-achieving K-12 public charter schools--Lighthouse and Lodestar--serving nearly 1,600 students in East Oakland. Lighthouse is a beacon for public education and our graduates fulfill the promise of a better, brighter Oakland.

Learn more at www.lighthousecharter.org.

The Opportunity

6-8 Fitness & Health Teacher- Competencies and Qualifications

Lodestar, a Lighthouse Community Public School is looking for a talented Middle School Fitness & Health 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:

1. Teaching Fitness and Health elective classes to students in middle school classes covering a variety of fitness topics (including both physical fitness and possibly nutrition, health, and wellness).
2. 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
3. Co-facilitate one grade-level crew of students in an advisory-style course, facilitate Student Led Conferences, communicate with families, and collaborate with a grade level team to design and implement shared practices
4. Ensure that students are at the center of their own learning and deeply engaged in ways that foster agency and self-direction
5. Builds and maintains classroom culture that is supportive and learner-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
6. Demonstrate culturally responsive pedagogy and practice including unrelenting high expectations and an assets-based approach for every student
7. 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
8. 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
9. 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
10. 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)
11. Demonstrates self-awareness, reflects on practice with self and others, and acts on feedback
12. Demonstrate flexibility, and ownership of our collective results
13. Additional Duties, as assigned by Supervisor.

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.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

We would love to hear from you if your educational toolbox includes the following:

• B.A. or B.S. required; Master's Degree, preferred
• Appropriate California Teaching Credential, required
• Deep knowledge of California Common Core State Standards, inquiry-based learning, curriculum planning, and data analysis, preferred
• 2 years teaching urban youth with transformational results
• Familiarity navigating educational platforms
• Experience teaching in a progressive school model
• Bilingual in Spanish preferred

SUPERVISION

This position will report to the Upper School Principal.

TIME COMMITMENT

This position is 1.0 FTE (full-time exempt) and follows a 10-month (190 day) work year with significant student-free days for professional learning and collaboration with colleagues and interaction with families. All instructional staff will report on July 25th).

Common Building Hours: All teachers are expected to maintain hours of 8:00 - 4:00 pm M, Tu, Th, Fri and 8:00-5:00 on Wednesdays for Professional Development.

OUR COMPENSATION PACKAGE

At Lighthouse Community Public Schools we take good care of our employees. 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).

TO APPLY

People of color and/or bilingual candidates are strongly encouraged to apply.

Interested candidates should submit:

• Resume.
• Cover letter describing your interest in this exciting position and why you are an optimal fit, including how your teaching philosophy, approach to student learning, and educational expertise would contribute to Lighthouse Community Public Schools.
• 3-5 Professional References: Name, position, phone number and email address. (Two of which should be current or previous supervisors of your role).

Application submission screening and initial phone interviews will be completed on a rolling basis. In-person interviews and performance tasks will take place on-site.

Lighthouse Community Public School is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity at all levels.

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