Elementary School Teachers (multiple)

Windsor Southeast Supervisory Union 2024-2025 School Year Job Posting Elementary School Teacher – Windsor School At WSESU, we are committed to engaging hearts and minds for a limitless future - where students want to learn, staff want to work, and families want to live. We celebrate all dimensions of diversity and strive to be a place where everyone feels a sense of inclusion and belonging. We are actively seeking to create a more diverse institutional culture because teams are stronger and more innovative with different perspectives and experiences. We are currently seeking a caring, creative, innovative elementary teacher for Windsor School. Windsor School is a public PreK-12 school serving approximately 560 students, with 185 students in grades K-5. Our school is dedicated to a student-centered approach through proficiency based learning and student voice, through their learning, leadership initiatives, and their academic and social-emotional choices. We value educating the whole child through a team approach. We are a truly collaborative team and enjoy working together to support student agency and self-directed learning. Summary: To plan, organize, and present instruction and instructional environments that help students learn subject matter and skills that will contribute to their educational and social development in the 21st century. Qualifications: Vermont State Elementary Teaching Certification or Bachelor Degree and working toward a teaching certification Essential Duties and Responsibilities: ● Leads in the classroom by taking responsibility for all students’ learning, while encouraging student voice and choice. ● Provides an environment in which each child has a positive, nurturing relationship with caring adults by encouraging a climate and culture that is inviting, respectful, supportive, inclusive, and flexible. ● Treats students as individuals by maintaining high expectations for all students, by appreciating differences and valuing contributions. ● Works collaboratively with the families and significant adults in the lives of their students by improving communication and collaboration between the school and the home and community. ● Knows the ways in which learning takes place and the appropriate levels of intellectual, physical, social, and emotional development of students. ● Plans instruction appropriate for students by collaborating with colleagues. ● Integrates and utilizes technology in instruction by knowing when and how to use technology to maximize student learning. ● Helps students develop critical thinking and complex problem-solving skills by encouraging students to ask questions, think creatively, and be curious. ● Uses a variety of methods to assess what each student has learned by using multiple indicators to evaluate student progress. ● Creates an active and engaging learning environment where students are inspired to obtain a deeper knowledge of the subjects they're studying. ● Maintains interest, willingness, and/or experience integrating and advancing practices of diversity, equity and inclusion Desired Skills and Experiences (or willingness to learn): ● Knowledge of Trauma-informed instruction preferred ● Knowledge of Responsive Classroom and Collaborative Problem Solving preferred ● Experience in Project Based Learning preferred ● Universal Design for Learning ● Culturally Responsive teaching strategies We encourage women, people of the global majority, LGBTQIA individuals, people with disabilities, foreign-born residents, older members of society, and individuals from diverse lived experiences and backgrounds to apply. Please apply on SchoolSpring.com or send a cover letter, resume, three current letters of reference, transcripts, and references to: Sergio Simunovic, Principal Windsor School 127 State St. Windsor, VT 05089 EOE