High School English Teacher

Aloha mai!  Mahalo for your interest in Kamehameha Schools.  If you are looking for an opportunity to utilize your skills and talents and grow in your profession, while serving and strengthening our Native Hawaiian community, we would love to have you join our ʻohana!

Kamehameha Schools Kapālama Campus is seeking a full-time High School English Teacher for the 2025–2026 school year. This Monday–Friday position requires a Bachelor’s degree in a related field and relevant teaching experience. The ideal candidate embraces Hawaiian Culture-Based Education (HCBE), delivers student-centered, engaging instruction, and fosters critical thinking, literacy, and cultural identity. This role also requires collaboration, personalized learning, and a commitment to supporting the whole child, including the ability or willingness to integrate Hawaiian literature and perspectives in alignment with Kamehameha Schools’ mission and values.
* student-centered learning,* `āina-based (place-based) learning environments,
* multicultural education,
* global education,
* service learning,
* indigenous education,
* data literacy and how data informs practice,
* integrated and interdisciplinary curriculum,
* project/inquiry-based learning,
* professional learning communities,
* design thinking,
* subject area expertise,
* integration of technology,
* meeting the individual needs of each student (personalized learning),
* assessing each student authentically,
* valuing skills over content,
* deep knowledge of a variety of assessment techniques,
* valuing mastery over traditional grading methods,
* constructivist learning techniques, and
* engagement of families in learning outcomes.
* Demonstrating
*** Academic Competence
*** in their subject area(s), and displaying an inclination for developing integrated and interdisciplinary work across the curriculum;
* Maintaining a
*** Growth Mindset
*** toward student learning, teaching practice, and personal/collective professional development;
* Demonstrating a high degree of
*** Self-Efficacy*** *(agency)*: teachers hold themselves accountable for learner outcomes, advocate for their students, work efficiently, and most importantly believe in their ability, the capability of their students and themselves to succeed and excel;
* Facilitating
*** Problem-Solving*,
** with curious minds, and critical thinkers who show a high degree of creative application in the implementation of data-driven curriculum and practice;
* Serving as
*** Role-Models
*** as innovative and creative learners who have an insatiable thirst for knowledge, personal growth, and being on the “cutting edge” of instructional practice and pedagogy;
* *** Collaborating effectively
*** with a variety of stakeholder groups within the organization and with external partners to increase student performance and contribute to advancing the teaching and learning craft;
* Looking beyond the walls of their classroom and strive for/demonstrate
*** Global Competence
*** and how their work will expand the impact of students’ work to their families, and local and global communities;
* Deeply investing in the
** Learners’ Well-Being
** and health, safety, physical, socially, and emotionally.
Teachers must recognize the relationship between social-emotional learning and academic performance and aspire toward developing and teaching the “whole child,” and
* Designing and facilitating differentiated and personalized learning goals and activities that follow a coherent sequence, are aligned to instructional goals, and engage students in high-level cognitive activity.

- The development (and develop in themselves) a sense of Learners’
** Native Hawaiian Identity.
** While knowledge of Hawaiian language, culture, and history can be helpful, it is not a prerequisite for Applicants.  The key elements of identity as defined by our
** E Ola! Learner Outcomes
** can be applied universally and globally, as the E Ola! Spirit will resonate with an Applicant who finds common ground with these beliefs.  Key elements of Hawaiian Identity are defined for Kamehameha as:
* Malama* and
* Kuleana* (social agency through community and global consciousness),
* Alaka’i Lawelawe* (servant…