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Job Description
Overview of Options Schools
School Summary: At Options Schools, we…
- Understand the significant difference between equity and equality. Every student deserves to receive what he/she needs to succeed.
- Develop school environments where all students are actively and meaningfully engaged in rigorous instruction and authentic learning tasks.
- Engage families as partners in meaningful ways.
- Build the capacity of diverse teams that are more reflective of our students.
- Nurture an open, collaborative, and trusting environment because the work is enormous, deeply personal, emotional, and often difficult.
- Engage in ongoing job-embedded professional development through co-teaching and co-planning.
Position Summary
At Options Schools, we believe student success occurs when they achieve strong academic results, deeply understand themselves as individuals, navigate diverse sets of experiences, and embrace and create opportunities for themselves and others. To be able to assess and monitor our students’ progress towards this holistic success, we will use interim assessments to measure growth and year-end state assessments to ensure our students receive an equitable education compared to those in their community, state, and nation. Non-academic goals will be measured and monitored as well.
Primary Responsibilities include but are not limited to:
Specific responsibilities include but are not limited to
- Model expectations to students by arriving to school on time prepared to teach, and reflecting school values in all interactions with members of our community
- Create and foster a positive learning environment
- Implement the school-wide student management policies within classrooms and everywhere on campus
- Maintain a neat, clean classroom environment and a professional personal appearance
- Advise a small group of students to succeed as indicated by academics and character
- Establish and maintain strong communication lines with all parents, including attending all required conferences
- Assist in the development of curriculum standards and mapping
- Create and teach challenging and engaging lessons linked to state and college readiness standards
- Provide individual and small group instruction until all students achieve mastery.
- Give informal and formal assessments, weekly, monthly, and quarterly.
- Participate in and initiate productive student-centered discussions at data meetings, in department teams, with grade-level advisors, school leadership, and other meetings as necessary
- Perform clerical duties, as required, relating to textbooks, instructional supplies, student reports and records, attendance reports, etc.
- Attend all professional development and staff meetings
- Actively engage in collaboration with grade-level and content team colleagues
- Perform morning, lunch, and afternoon duties as assigned
- Additional responsibilities may arise during the school year. This could include but is not limited to attending staff and student field trips, overnight trips, open houses, parent-teacher conferences, home visits, and other events involving parents and students as needed. They will be communicated to all employees with as much notice and flexibility as possible.
Qualifications: Values and Mindsets
Believes deeply in the mission and vision of Options Schools and subscribes to our core values:
- Purpose: We all choose to be here and feel both inspired and challenged in our work. Our goals, both individually and collectively, are great which requires great effort, but offers great fulfillment.
- Team: Each of us contributes unique strengths to our community. As we understand ourselves and one another, we are able to maximize all our strengths towards collective success.
- Joy: We love and respect members of our community. We demonstrate this through a sense of urgency, gratitude, and fun in all that we do.
- Grit: Our growth never stops, so we never quit. We challenge ourselves which requires embracing the possibility of failure, and ultimately, believing in our ability to eventually succeed.
- Power: We seek to make the world a better place by fighting for equity for ourselves, our kids and our community. We embrace the opportunities where our skills and talents allow us to lead, and honor those opportunities by acting ethically and justly.
Qualifications: Skills
- Strong organizational skills. Ability to manage several tasks and projects at once
- Exceptional attention to detail
- Excellent written and interpersonal communication skills
- Ability to work effectively and flexibly in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment
- Good judgment and sense of personal responsibility; exceptional maturity, professionalism, and ability to use discretion and maintain confidentiality
- Ability to plan and manage projects independently and collaboratively and also ability to manage up to effectively ensure key milestones are being met
- Strong MS Office skills (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook) and/or a propensity to learn new systems quickly
- Proficiency with Google sites and documents preferred
Qualifications: Education and Prior Experience
- Bachelor’s degree
- Preferred 2+ years of teaching experience
- Current teaching certificate/ licensure
Work Demands
- Ability and willingness to travel occasionally for team conferences and overnight field trips when required
- Working outside of typical school hours to ensure the school's mission, vision, and expectations are met
- Attend school and community events and functions
- Passes a criminal background check, as required by law
