Teacher Collaborator Physical Education

The PE Collaborator encourages all leaders to develop lifelong habits of healthy physical activity. PE Collaborator implements an instructional program that fosters learning and growth creates a supportive learning environment that enables acquisition of skills and knowledge and guides leaders toward reaching their academic social intellectual and physical potential.

Overall Staff Responsibilities:

Share responsibility with a team of colleagues and parents to honor the mission:

• to eliminate the prolific racial achievement and opportunity gaps by cultivating confident creative and compassionate leaders;

• Practice the values of KairosPDX in professional conduct and daily interactions:

  • respect responsibility honesty excellence and service to community

• Incorporate the beliefs of KairosPDX in all approaches and instruction

  • Every child is uniquely capable innately curious and inherently creative

  • Character and agency are essential to achievement and are developed through relationship and service to others

  • A multi- cultural context delivers a strong sense of self and is a requirement for participation in our global society

  • Children must be supported in the context of their families;

• Support multicultural practice instructional and inquiry based approaches that are:

• Actively anti-racist confronting bias in all of its forms

• Education for social justice acknowledging history and studying the present to make informed decisions regarding a more equitable future

• Pervasive Examining practices in all levels of school culture and organization

• Personal Beginning with the necessary consideration of self as a cultural being

• Critical Pedagogy Pursuing multiple perspectives anticipating contradictions and challenging assumptions

• Empowering Providing children the ego strength to challenge racist societal views

• Helping children think deeply about themselves and others.

Core Position Responsibilities:

• Create a learning environment designed to build skill confidence and a positive cultural and academic identity

• Research implement and align curriculum instructional strategies and student assessment to the Common Core

• Develop and track standards growth and learning goals for each student including use of baseline and progression data identifying strategies measures and evidence of progress standards

• Responsible for planning for and orchestrating academic social emotional and cultural identity growth outcomes

• Collaborate with Science Collaborator and instructional staff to schedule lessons serving all KairosPDX students

• Collaborate with Science Collaborator to design and implement specific lessons for Community Action Sessions CAS

• Stay current with new content and information in a rapidly changing environment

• Hold student outcomes aspirations and involvement at the center of plans aimed to increase student growth and achievement

• Teach and manage a classroom with approximately 20-40 students

• Discipline students in a fair and consistent manner using clear routines and expectations as well as school approved behavior support techniques

• Interpret plan and work toward the goals of the learning community

• Plan and prepare the environment for the academic and non-academic needs of students

• Assess for progress in the academic social emotional and cultural domains of student development;

• Align curriculum instructional strategies and student assessment to the Common Core

• Document and maintain educational records for each student in the classroom

• Utilize data to inform instruction

• Work with a team of colleagues and families to provide a nurturing and positive climate that encourages student responsibility and intrinsic motivation

• Plans lessons based on grade-level standards that are meaningful and differentiated to meet student needs that are relevantly linked beyond the task-at-hand and that help all students learn and apply transferable knowledge and skills.

• Communicates with care respect proactivity and professionalism to students parents colleagues and all school personnel. Communicates both verbally and in writing in a manner that builds and enhances powerful relationships with students their families and members of the school community

• Plans lessons that are intentionally linked to other lessons (previous and future) in support of students meeting standards.

• Provides students with measurable learning targets with clear criteria for success.

• Assigns students understandable and relevant performance tasks to provide concrete evidence of student learning.

• Develops teaching points based on students learning needs (academic background life experiences culture and language) in relation to the learning target(s)

• Enables students to take ownership of their own learning such that they build the capacity to develop test and refine their thinking.

• Engage students with strategies capitalizing and building upon students academic background life experiences culture and language and which support rigorous and culturally relevant learning.

Additional Responsibilities:

• Attend several KairosPDX staff and family events

• Participate in professional development to facilitate the growth of each student staff member and the organization overall

• Participate in continuous improvement practices including observations reflections and collaborations

• Participate in all staff department and team meetings and seminars

• Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties responsibilities and activities may change with or without notice

• Perform other related duties as needed and assigned.

Salary and Benefits:

Salary: Dependent on qualifications ranging from $54571- $107686.

Benefits include: Up to nine weeks of school closure breaks paid sick/personal leave days paid holidays participation in Public Employees Retirement System (PERS) employer contribution for health insurance professional development opportunities

Required Experience:

IC