Humanities Teacher (Middle School) (26 27SY)

At Lighthouse Community Public Schools we are engaged in an educational movement that goes beyond our classrooms working to disrupt inequities by providing our students and families exceptional educational opportunities every day. Grounded in our core values of community integrity agency love and social justice rooted in the EL Education Model LCPS is a leader in fostering innovative schools achieving exceptional student outcomes where each child is at the center of their own learning. Our mission is to prepare diverse students for college a career of their choice and to be lifelong changemakers. Founded in 2002 LCPS operates two high-achieving TK-12 public charter schools whose goal is to be the highest performing schools in East Oakland. Our two schools serve over 1600 students and are a beacon for public education and our graduates fulfill the promise of a better brighter Oakland.

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Lighthouse Community Public Schools is looking for a talented Humanities Teacher to join our team who is relentlessly committed to ensuring that traditionally underserved students of color achieve our mission of completing college securing a career of their choice and becoming lifelong changemakers in their communities. LCPS teachers believe that this important mission is not only attainable; it is essential to transforming our Oakland community.

If you are inspired by our mission and vision and want to be a changemaker in students lives here in Oakland then please apply and join us!

You will embody the following Core Competencies to be an effective change-agent:

• Be an anti-racist educator committed to educational justice as evidenced by pursuing high academic outcomes for all students respectful and supportive relationships well-planned instruction rigorous daily assessment and daily opportunities for students to revise and refine their work.

• Facilitate cognitively engaging student-centered learning.

• Demonstrate a keen belief in and ability to create collect and analyze achievement data to drive student learning and outcomes for all students

• Be a strong community builder and team collaborator

• Model and foster a growth mindset with agency persistence and flexibility

• Be a collaborative and responsible professional educator

Your responsibilities will include:

INSTRUCTIONAL VISION

• Specific teaching responsibilities of this role include:

  • Teach multiple sections of middle school Humanities possibly an elective and a grade-level Crew/advisory each day.

• All LCPS teachers lead an advisory (known as a Crew) daily morning or afternoon duty (yard supervision) up to 2 times per week and either a guided study hall or designated ELD course depending on the need of the school and the teachers specific licensure.

• Demonstrate culturally responsive pedagogy which gives students the skills practice and daily opportunity to grapple with rigorous content each day and includes unrelenting high expectations and an assets-based approach for every student.

• Plan internalize and implement adopted effective grade-level standards-based curriculum units and lessons that are learner-driven and maintain rigor.

• Differentiate curriculum while still maintaining rigor to provide grade-level access and results for all student subgroups including students with IEPs English language learners African-American and Latinx students.

• Utilize collect and analyze rigorous student-engaged assessments both formative and summative to identify and address students areas of growth and mastery of learning objectives. To include Schoology MAP as well as others.

• Additional Duties as assigned by Supervisor

CLASSROOM & SCHOOL CULTURE

• Build and maintain a classroom culture that is supportive and learning-centered undergirded by strong management efficient procedures and systems but most evident in the full inclusion of African-American boys students with trauma and students with IEPs in the social and learning community.

• Create positive relationships by building nurturing and affirming teacher-student student-student and teacher-family partnerships with a focus on building a community of risk-taking collaborative learners.

PROFESSIONAL PRACTICES/STAFF CULTURE

• Grow and contribute as an educator colleague learner and community member including engaging in professional development and your own growth as a teacher in service of student learning and outcomes.

• Demonstrate advocacy flexibility and collegiality.

• Demonstrate self-awareness reflect on practice with self and others and act on feedback.

• Demonstrate flexibility and ownership of our collective results.

• Administer all policies and procedures in a professional and timely manner as mandated by LCPS and state and federal agencies (i.e. attendance records dress code reporting of sexual/physical abuse).

Are you ready to join an educational movement that is bigger than one classroom

If you are excited about the opportunity to foster and facilitate a progressive growth mindset in students and engage in transformational teaching we are actively looking for student-centered dedicated and dynamic teachers.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

We would love to hear from you if your educational toolbox includes the following: