Teacher, Middle School Social Studies

POSITION: Teacher, Middle School Social Studies

LOCATION: Achieve Academy, 9100 Poze Blvd., Thornton, CO 80229

PAY RANGE: $63,301 - $128,842 Annual Salary

CALENDAR: 190 Days

REPORTS TO: School Director/Principal

School Design Overview

Achieve Academy is a K-8 Expeditionary Learning (EL) school strongly rooted in Leadership. Through meaningful community relationships, intentional service-learning projects, and a focus on student voice, all students participate in opportunities to explore, embrace, and enhance their leadership skills. Students master standards through in-depth explorations of leadership characteristics, as active members of their community. Achieve teachers support a positive learning environment that engages and inspires students to take their learning to the next level. Students learn about empathy, responsibility, and curiosity, and connect their learning to the real world to become problem solvers and investigators.

Key Responsibilities

• Build a safe, trusting, and collaborative community with students and their families that allows them to contribute positively to the school community.
• Mentor and serve as a student advocate on a two-year loop.
• Communicate regularly with parents regarding students' academic and social and emotional needs.
• Guide students through meaningful internship experiences and commute to facilitate meetings with internship mentors.
• Provide project planning support for students' two personal projects each year.
• Plan advisory activities with grade level teams that support social-emotional growth and community building.
• Support and monitor student's Individualized Learning Plan through weekly 1 on 1 meetings.
• Use data to direct planning and instruction.
• Collaborate extensively with specialists to provide appropriate accommodation for content practice and assessment.
• Routinely assess student goals and progress and make appropriate instructional adjustments necessary to support personal growth.
• Create opportunities for learning that simultaneously support students with 504's, IEP, GATES plans and more.
• Utilize standards to backward instruction.
• Goal set and meet regularly with Instructional Coach and/or Director to support professional growth.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Colorado teaching license with an appropriate Social Studies endorsement required.
• Additional endorsement in Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Education preferred, or willingness to pursue endorsement or equivalent coursework.
• Deep understanding of Colorado Model Content Standards and the Grade Level Expectations in all grade level expectations for Reading, Writing & Communications areas.
• Desire to grow professionally, be reflective, and seek out new opportunities.
• Experience using multiple formative and summative assessments to determine students' level of proficiency, provide feedback to students, and create flexible groups for differentiated instruction.
• Experience using a wide range of effective instructional practices (active pedagogy) including inquiry-based instruction, to give students support and multiple opportunities needed to meet or exceed standards.
• Experience designing and/or collaborating on standards-based learning experiences, including identifying and preparing course materials, which supports student's skill development in science, especially related to cross content coursework.
• Experience with developing problem-based instruction and project-based learning.
• Required participation in Mapleton's Secondary Constructing Institute (course options will be provided throughout the year).

Training

• Mandatory Title IX training is required by the Colorado Department of Education and for all public-school employees. Title IX training addresses harassment, discrimination, and bullying.
• Two mandatory training courses must be completed within 30 days of your date of hire and are required to be completed on your own time.

Method Of Application

• External applicants must complete a career application online through Frontline Recruiting & Hiring.
• Current Mapleton employees should create an account and submit their interest as an internal candidate through Frontline Recruiting & Hiring.