Associate Teacher 2025-2026 SY
Associate Teacher 2025-2026 SY
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Location:Nashville Tennessee
Employment Type:This is a fulltime inperson support role for theschool year.
Annualized Salary: Associate Teachers salary: $35360. If confirmed in a longterm Instructional Support role the salary will increase to $44520. Salaries are prorated based on start date.
About Valor:
Founded in 2014 Valor Collegiate Academies is a topperforming public charter school network in Nashville Tennessee serving students in Grades 512 across three schools. Our mission is to create a community where students of all backgrounds have equitable access to an education that prepares them to live inspired and purposeful lives. This mission is made possible through an innovative school model that balances rigorous academics and wholechild education in an intentionally diverse environment. Learn more about Valor:https://valorcollegiate/ourmodel/
About The Role:
Valor Collegiate Academies is hiring fulltime Associate Teachers to serve as instructional support in the event of shortterm teacher absences and longterm vacancies when a certified teacher is unavailable. Valors Associate Teacher model for the 2526 school year is similar to a teacher residency program where individuals are not just substitute teachers but receiving onthejob experience as educators and applying that training as Instructional Support this first year before becoming a certified teacher in their second or third year as a Valor teacher.
Associate Teachers will be assigned to a specific school campus to internalize the culture integrate into that team and provide instructional coverage for shortterm teacher absences though that assignment may change based on organizational needs. Shortterm coverage assignment is at the discretion of each campus Principal and/or Director of Operations. Once a longterm permiteligible vacancy is confirmed at a campus however Associate Teachers may be assigned to fill that vacancy. This may mean intercampus movement to serve where the longterm vacancy exists. Coverage in longterm vacancies supersedes shortterm coverage support for our Associate Teachers.
Once assigned to a permiteligible longterm teaching vacancy:
- Valor will apply for a temporary 1year teaching permit with the Tennessee Department of Education on their behalf.
- Associate Teachers will be promoted to an Instructional Support position which changes in job title and increased salary to $44520 because of the additional responsibilities that come with leading teaching and grading for permiteligible content classes.
- The Associate Teacher will assume all responsibilities associated with the course receive coaching attend professional development and remain in that vacancy for the remainder of the school year as Instructional Support.
For those interested in becoming a fully certified teacher the following school year at Valor we encourage Associate Teachers to apply to our Transition to Teach Program which is eligible for team members after one year of service. The Associate Teacher can serve a maximum of two years before making a decision about continuing as a fulltime certified teacher at Valor in Year 3. Those choosing not to pursue that path will not be eligible to continue employment in this capacity.
Key Responsibilities:
- Deliver lessons to a class of students wherever the campus has deemed a coverage need.
- Evaluate student work and grade assignments.
- Meet with an assigned coach and attend instructional preparation meetings to refine approach and craft as an educatorintraining.
- Enforce uphold and exhibit the schools values student behavior management policies and culture.
- Fill in to support with needed schoolbased duties (e.g lunch/recess monitoring or arrival/dismissal duties).
- Track manage and input daily student behavior and engagement feedback to share with Student Support Team and leader teachers.
- Respond to students behavior progress in realtime with recommended interventions based on Valors behavior framework.
- Participate in faculty Circle once a week (Wednesdays after school)
Critical Experiences and Qualifications:
- At a minimum you have earned your Bachelors degree with at least a 2.50 GPA.
- You have an interest in becoming a certified teacher within 12 years.
- You are flexible and a team player willing to support in various content areas across the middle school and high school grades 512 as needed until placed in a longterm vacancy as Instructional Support.
- You feel confident in your ability to manage and keep students on track academically.
- You are a quick learner and have the ability to learn new tech systems and online platforms quickly.
- You are selfaware and selfreflective with a strong desire to continuously grow professionally and personally.
- You have a growth mindset and are quick to incorporate feedback into your daily practice.
- You have the ability to set and reach ambitious goals and can handle the intensity required to thrive in a highperforming fastpaced school environment.
- You have the passion and commitment to serve an ethnically & economically diverse student body as an educator.
- You have the ability to model live and reinforce the schools core values norms and policies.
- You enjoy cultivating relationships with students families and staff to create a positive school environment.
Hours Compensation Benefits:
- Must be available during school hours and oncampus MondayFriday from 7:004:00pm. On Wednesdays must be available to attend faculty Circle a core Valor practice across faculty and students.
- Must also be available for Valors threeweek summer training program which will begin in midJuly 2025.
- This is a fulltime role with comprehensive health benefits.
- Annualized salary is $35360; once in a longterm permiteligible position title will change to Instructional Support and salary will increase to the annualized salary of $44520 which will be prorated based on the date the positional shift is made.
- Intensive onthejob training on becoming an educator inone of the best public schoolsin Tennessee
- 8 days of PTO per academic school year (prorated if starting after July 1 2025 plus access to Valors PTO Sharing program.
- Free access to an onsite strength & conditioning facility Vanderbilt Health Clinic retirement counseling and mental health support and resources
- Employee laptops and unlimited supplies
- Fulltime employees wishing to enroll their student at Valor in grades 512 will be placed at the top of the new student waitlist
Interview Process:
- Resume Review
- Phone Interview
- Virtual Leadership Interview
- Reference Checks
- Offer Extension
Commitment to Diversity Equity and Inclusion:
Valor believes in the importance of being a diverse equitable and inclusive organization that enables students and staff to thrive. As an equal opportunity employer we do not discriminate on the basis of race religion color national origin gender sexual orientation age marital status veteran status or disability status. We actively seek applications from people of all backgrounds to strengthen our community and the perspectives needed to thrive in a diverse world.
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