Instructional Assistant – Valor Academy Elementary School

25-26 Instructional Assistant – Valor Academy Elementary School

Recruitment began on July 15, 2025

and the job listing Expires on January 15, 2026

Completed application include:

• Resume
• Professional reference letter

* Optional

• Three professional references’ contact information

Phone Interview

School Site Interview

* Selected applicants will be invited to a final round interview with a specific school site.

Bright Star Schools is a free, publicly funded and open enrollment non-profit organization with seven public charters in urban Los Angeles. Across all of our Bright Star sites, over 90% of our students are eligible for free and reduced lunch.

Our mission is to provide holistic, inclusive support for all students to achieve academic excellence and grow their unique talents so that they find joy in higher education, career, and life. Bright Star students will become leaders who act with integrity and champion equity to enrich our communities and the world. The framework to our success is our core operating principles, which are Integridad, Ubuntu, Kohyang (
고향
), and Growth.

Our educators join a family that is passionate and committed to developing all students to become well-rounded citizens. We offer small class sizes, comprehensive teacher support, and numerous collaboration opportunities across the organization and within school sites. We strongly believe in teacher voice, and we work to increase teaching practice and effectiveness through our data-driven and feedback-derived professional development.

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Bright Star Schools is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national or ethnic origin, age, disability, pregnancy, or veteran status.

• Bachelor’s Degree required (Bilingual in Spanish or Korean preferred but not required)
• Hours:
  
  35-40 hours per week; starts at $20 an hour

• Orients and provides instructional assistance to individuals or small groups of students in classrooms. (If school is in person, this will occur in classrooms at the school site. If for any reason, we ever move to virtual instruction due to following local health guidelines, this instructional support would occur remotely via online learning.)
• Supports instructional outcomes for students by assisting with checking for student understanding and facilitating differentiated supports for students, by direction of the school administrators or teacher and in collaboration with the lead teacher
• At school campus (during hybrid or in person learning) or virtually (during any distance learning), leads small group instruction with students and tutor individuals and small groups of students in various subject areas.
• Works to support the teacher to meet students’ learning needs in the classroom
• Orients and provides instructional assistance to individuals or small groups of students.
• Tutors individuals and small groups of students in various subject areas.
  
  Assists teacher in establishing and maintaining a clean, safe and pleasant classroom and learning environment.
• Assists in preparing instructional materials.
• Assists in maintaining student records and files.
• Operates equipment such as copy machines, computers and audiovisual equipment.
• Supervises students in all indoor and outdoor activities, ensuring a safe environment.
• Supervises students during breakfast, lunch and snack time.
• Assists in teaching children to become responsible for their decisions and actions.
• Guides children’s behaviors in a positive way that teaches self-respect along with respect for others and the community around them.
• Encourages children to interact positively with other children and people around them.
• Provides a wide variety of age appropriate activities that offers physical and emotional growth.
• Maintain open lines of communication with the teacher and classroom team to ensure the individual needs of all children are met.
• Provide support to others.
• Perform…