Physical Education, Health & Wellness Teacher - PAWS Academy; K-8

Physical Education, Health & Wellness Teacher - PAWS Academy (K-8)

Marlborough Public Schools Hildreth School - Marlborough, Massachusetts

Job : 5746069

Final date to receive applications: Posted until filled

Posted: May 29, 2026 4:00 AM (UTC)

Starting Date: Aug 31, 2026

Title of Position: Physical Education, Health & Wellness Teacher - PAWS Academy at Hildreth (K-8)

Work Year:  School Year

Start Date: August 31, 2026

Salary: Placement on the Teachers’ Salary Scale according to education and experience.

PAWS Academy at Hildreth

This is an opportunity to be part of a new school The PAWS Program (Perseverance, Achievement, Wellness, and Success) is a public day special education, therapeutic educational school setting serving K–8 students whose behavioral and social-emotional needs significantly impact their learning. PAWS provides a safe, highly structured, and supportive environment where staff implement individualized, evidence-based interventions to build students’ self regulation, social skills, resilience, and academic engagement.

Through strong collaboration with families and school teams, PAWS staff support students in developing perseverance, strengthening wellness, and achieving meaningful academic and social success, with the ultimate goal of helping students grow and transition successfully within their school communities.

Organizational Relationship or Line of Authority: Directly responsible to the Building Director, and through him/her the Assistant Superintendent of Teaching and Learning.

Job Summary: Promote learning and growth of all students providing high-quality instruction, authentic and meaningful student assessments, analyzing student data, using data to improve instruction, continuously providing students with constructive feedback, and continuously refining learning objectives. Maintains instructional practices that establish high expectations, create a safe and effective learning environment, and demonstrate cultural proficiency. Effectively partners with families, caregivers, community members, and organizations to promote learning.

Maintains an ethical, culturally proficient, skilled, and collaborative practice as a professional educator.

• Teaches wellness/physical education and health classes.
• Promotes school health/wellness, health awareness activities (both curricular and extracurricular) for students, staff, and parents.
• Meets and instructs assigned classes in the locations and at the times designated.
• Demonstrates knowledge and understanding of the subject matter and the pedagogy it requires by engaging students in learning experiences that enable them to acquire complex knowledge and skills in the subject.
• Demonstrates knowledge of developmental levels of students and the different ways students learn by providing differentiated learning experiences to enable all students to progress toward meeting intended outcomes.
• Designs units of instruction with measurable outcomes and challenging tasks requiring higher-order thinking skills that enable students to learn the knowledge and skills defined in state standards/local curricula.
• Designs and administers informal and formal assessments, including common interim assessments, to measure each student's learning, growth, and progress toward achieving state/local standards.
• Organizes and analyzes results from assessments to determine progress and uses findings to adjust practice and identify and/or implement appropriate differentiated interventions and enhancements for all students, including those with disabilities and English learners, using various methods, including but not limited to, tiered instruction, scaffolds and adapted instruction and/or materials to accommodate differences in learning.
• Based on assessment results, provides descriptive feedback and engages students and families in constructive conversation that focuses on how students can improve their performance.
• Defines high expectations for the quality of student work and the perseverance and effort required to produce it.
• Uses instructional practices that are likely to motivate and engage most students during the lesson.
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