Upper Elementary Multilingual Education Teacher

www.highlineacademy.org

We exist to foster a diverse community of youths and adults striving together for academic, personal, and civic excellence.

Creating inclusive excellence in public education.

Reporting directly to Highline’s campus principal, our teaching team is the heart of our organization - the ones who make the mission come alive for our staff. We expect our team to care about the whole child, plan well, maintain strong, nurturing classroom management, and collaborate effectively with teammates and families. We look for people with good communication skills, dedication to do everything it takes to make a difference for each child, and a growth mindset.

Coordinators are paid year-round on a salary. Their student contact days (176), professional development days, and parent conference days add up to a 189-day work year. However, the work the teaching team does outside those days planning, reflecting, and pursuing professional growth is also an important part of being an excellent teacher. Our MLE teachers are expected to be on campus ready for students by 7:45 am and to stay until 4:00 each day school is in session, and to 4:30 on Fridays when we have early release days for students followed by teacher P.D. or planning meetings.

There are 2 weeks of professional development every summer before school begins, which counts as professional development days.

Campus Principal

Highline Academy is a community of diverse youth and adults striving together for academic, civic, and personal excellence. Founded in 2004, Highline is committed to inclusive excellence. In 2013, we launched our second school in Green Valley Ranch. Our students come from fifty countries, speak 26 different languages, and represent a full range of socio-economic backgrounds and previous educational experiences. Our diverse and integrated community has already begun to achieve excellence.

Highline students have consistently outperformed district and state averages. Strong faculty and student retention rates reflect the school’s positive culture and strong community.

Highline is committed to a liberal arts education that includes Art, Music, Spanish, and P.E. instruction for our students. We have high expectations for all of our learners, with an understanding that some learners need more or different instruction. We have Performance Group teachers at each grade level, which enables us to provide small-group instruction in the core content areas of math and language arts.

Additionally, we have a robust intervention program with additional supports available as students show they need them. We are a fully inclusive organization for students with special needs who are integrated into the general education classrooms.

Highline designed a character education program called REACH. This teaches, practices, and celebrates the REACH values of responsibility, empowerment, aspiration, citizenship, and honesty. All our students are taught to Reach Out to support and care about their classmates and community, Reach In to learn about themselves and reflect on their learning, and Reach Up to their very best academic achievement. We are a student-first, growth-mindset organization, and we expect all employees to model these values.

All Highline employees are expected to read and follow all policies as written in the employee handbook and to review it annually for updates.

• Create a Positive Classroom Culture and Climate
• Practice Effective Classroom Management
• Plan and implement Masterful Content Delivery
• Pract…