Academic Paraprofessional - 24/25 School Year

Ignite your desire to be the best!
Imagine an energy so positive, so powerful, it ignites your desire to be the best, inspires you to bring out the best in others, and fuels your aspiration to do the best work of your career.

At Legacy Traditional Schools we do things a special way, in a way that ignites our desire to be the best, illuminates our educators’ best talents, lights up the minds of our students, and fuels our school spirit. We shine the brightest when we raise our hands and rise to the challenge of changing lives through education, cultivating bright curious minds, achieving award-winning results, upholding our values, and engaging positively with our students, parents and communities.

As a Paraprofessional, you will have the opportunity to change lives through education as you help, support, and work closely with teachers and educators to provide additional educational benefit for our students. And you will do meaningful work that makes a difference for our students as you:

• Work with students to reinforce learning, understanding and skills related to the material and curriculum shared by the teacher.

• Assist teachers in devising special strategies for reinforcing material or skills based on a sympathetic understanding of individual students, their needs, interests and abilities.

• Support the supervision of students during emergency drills, assemblies, play periods, lunch periods and field trips.

• Serve as the chief source of information and help to substitute teachers.

• Create a classroom and safe environment that cultivates learning, engages the interests of the students and allows them to perform at their very best.

• Support teachers as they guide our students through a variety of activities designed to promote the social, physical and intellectual growth that is needed for primary school success! Support teachers in the evaluation and celebration of student academic performance.

• Explore individual needs and give side-by-side support to discover how each student best learns and recommend personalized solutions to the teachers for each students’ learning style and abilities.

• Understand our proven curriculum as you support the implementation of our philosophy of education and guide the learning process and students toward the achievement of the curriculum goals using a variety of best practices and teaching strategies.

• Encourage students to uphold our values and model mature behavior, good character and social skills in the classroom, on the school campus, and throughout their lives.

Meet the qualifications that set you up for success

• Holding a high school diploma or GED, a completed Paraprofessional Assessment, a current IVP level one fingerprint clearance card and passing a criminal history background check.

• Creating positive, powerful energy that fuels our school spirit. Filling our campuses with exceptional students and diverse talent. Modeling our values, inspiring others and having fun. Solving matters with composure, integrity and compassion. Immersing yourself in significant connections with our students, parents, and fellow educators. Having a passion for teaching others, helping others learn, and celebrating their success. Participating in events outside of normal hours and being active in the role when light lifting, sitting, standing, moving throughout the campus and traveling to other campuses as required.

Enjoy the benefits of being the best
Education is not a spectator sport, so we encourage you work hard, learn, have fun and always do your best. If you raise your hand to accept the challenge of changing lives through education and give your very best to contribute to our students’ success, you’ll experience:

A. our colorful school spirit
B. a fulfilling career
C. a culture of connection
D. our spirit of tradition
E. the benefits of being the best.
Hint: If asked in your interview how we ignite your desire to be the best, the answer is “All of the above”

Enjoy industry-leading pay, rewards, referral bonuses and paid time-off. Care for your health and your family with comprehensive medical, dental and vision benefits, discounted onsite childcare and student enrollment priority, even for part-time roles. Invest in your future with retirement plans - Arizona has 401(k) plans with 6% employer matching, Nevada participates in the Nevada State Retirement PERS and Texas participate in the Texas retirement TRS. Enhance your growth with promotion opportunities, training, mentoring and tuition reimbursement. Thrive in a welcoming, supportive and inclusive environment where we celebrate the diversity of our team and our communities and uphold our values to treat others with fairness, equality and respect as an equal opportunity employer.

Come be an educator with LTS
Every team member, from our support staff to our leadership team has knowledge to share, skills to teach, inspiration to offer, and a passion for helping others learn and perform their best, which is why we are proud to call all our employees educators.

Our smart, talented, diverse educators across Arizona, Nevada and Texas are working together to change lives through education and make our charter schools the best place learn, grow and work. Come be an educator at Legacy Traditional Schools and experience a positive collective energy so powerful, it ignites your desire to be the best! Ignite your career.

Job Type: Full-time