Teacher Grade K, Baldwin

Position: Teacher Grade K

Baldwin School

Maria L. Baldwin School Community:

Baldwin strives to deliver a welcoming inclusive and joyful learning environment that supports every student in taking risks learning and reaching their full potential while building community individual responsibility and self-confidence.

We work hard to be a community that provides joy belonging challenge and growth to every Baldwin student every are also a community of adult learners.

The Opportunity:

The Maria L. Baldwin School seeks an experienced early childhood teacher to join our caring and innovative community to teach JK/ our current model its likely that most students in the group will be Kindergarten students and there will be a few JK students in the group as well. The successful candidate will have experience planning implementing and adapting the JK/K curriculum based on the Massachusetts State Frameworks and/or the Common Core. S/he will set high expectations for all students and utilize scaffolding and differentiation to support students. The teacher will have an appreciation and awareness of the unique developmental needs of young people in this age band. As a professional the teacher will display a collegial spirit that supports and enhances continual professional growth consistent with the educational goals and philosophies of the Baldwin School and be fully committed to continuously learning improving reflecting and working together as a community to ensure that all students achieve at high with training in culturally responsive instruction are highly preferred. All candidates must be open to engaging in conversations about the intersection between race and educationcritical conversations that ground our improvement efforts.

• The teacher will teach all elementary subjects.
• The teacher will implement the Responsive Classroom model including daily class meetings and responsive school discipline.
• The teacher will collaborate closely with the other JK and K teachers.
• The teacher will collaborate with all team members including but not limited to the JK-2 cluster special educators instructional coaches paraprofessionals interventionists and other support personnel.
• Incorporate a variety of assessment strategies including district-wide exams and formative assessment in order to inform instruction and target intervention and enrichment needs.
• Integrating social learning into the classroom will work to foster a safe caring and active learning community.
• Partner with families and include them in the students learning and development.

Your Skill Set:

As the incoming Kindergarten Teacheryou will possess many though perhaps not all of the following characteristics and qualifications:

• Massachusetts State Early Childhood certification and SEI Endorsement (required)
• Bachelors degree required Masters degree highly preferred
• A strong work ethic alongside a commitment to doing whatever it takes for students to excel
• Experience and practice working with children in the early childhood levels
• Knowledge and experience of running a center-based model Fundations Math in Focus Responsive Classroom culturally responsive teaching practices and RTI
• At least two years of full-time classroom instruction
• Demonstrated success in elevating the achievement levels of a diverse student body

How to Join Our Team:

Apply online at . Please upload a resume and thoughtful cover letter outlining how your skills and experience meet the qualifications of the position and stating how you heard about this opportunity.

At the Cambridge Public Schools we are committed to cultivating an environment where diverse perspectives and backgrounds are embraced acknowledging that a team reflecting diversity of race color ancestry national origin religion age gender marital/domestic partner status sexual orientation gender identity disability status and veteran status allows us to serve our communities better. To that end we welcome and encourage applicants to bring their authentic selves when considering employment opportunities within our school district.

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