Making, Art Design Teacher; Middle School; SY

Making, Art, & Design Teacher (Middle School) (26-27SY) Lighthouse Community Public Schools

At Lighthouse Community Public Schools we are engaged in an educational movement that goes beyond our classrooms working to disrupt inequities by providing our students and families exceptional educational opportunities every day. Grounded in our core values of community, integrity, agency, love, and social justice rooted in the EL Education Model, LCPS is a leader in fostering innovative schools achieving exceptional student outcomes where each child is at the center of their own learning.

Our mission is to prepare diverse students for college, a career of their choice, and to be lifelong changemakers. Founded in 2002, LCPS operates two high-achieving TK-12 public charter schools whose goal is to be the highest performing schools in East Oakland. Our two schools serve over 1,600 students and are a beacon for public education and our graduates fulfill the promise of a better, brighter Oakland.

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Lighthouse Community Public Schools is looking for a talented Middle School Making, Art, & Design Teacher to join our team who is relentlessly committed to ensuring that traditionally underserved students of color achieve our mission of completing college, securing a career of their choice, and becoming lifelong changemakers in their communities. LCPS teachers believe that this important mission is not only attainable;

it is essential to transforming our Oakland community.

If you are inspired by our mission and vision and want to be a change maker in students’ lives here in Oakland, then please apply and join us!

• Be an anti-racist educator committed to educational justice as evidenced by pursuing high academic outcomes for all students, respectful and supportive relationships, well-planned instruction, rigorous daily assessment, and daily opportunities for students to revise and refine their work.
• Facilitate cognitively engaging, student-centered learning.
• Demonstrate a keen belief in and ability to create, collect, and analyze achievement data to drive student learning and outcomes for all students.
• Be a strong community builder and team collaborator.
• Model and foster a growth mindset with agency, persistence, and flexibility.
• Be a collaborative and responsible professional educator.

INSTRUCTIONAL VISION

• Teach multiple sections of middle school humanities, possibly an elective, and a grade-level Crew/advisory each day.
• Lead an advisory (Crew) daily; morning or afternoon duty up to 2 times per week; guided study hall or designated ELD course as needed.
• Demonstrate culturally responsive pedagogy with high expectations and an assets-based approach for every student.
• Plan, internalize, and implement adopted, effective, grade-level standards-based curriculum, units, and lessons that are learner-driven and maintain rigor.
• Differentiate curriculum while maintaining rigor to provide grade-level access and results for all student subgroups, including students with IEPs, English language learners, African-American, and Latinx students.
• Utilize, collect, and analyze rigorous, student-engaged assessments, both formative and summative, to identify and address students’ areas of growth and mastery of learning objectives; use Schoology, MAP, and others.
• Additional duties as assigned by supervisor.

CLASSROOM & SCHOOL CULTURE

• Build and maintain a classroom culture that is supportive and learning-centered, under girded by strong management, efficient procedures, and systems, with full inclusion of African-American boys, students with trauma, and students with IEPs in the social and learning community.
• Create positive relationships by building nurturing and affirming teacher-student, student-student, and teacher-family partnerships with a focus on building a community of risk-taking, collaborative learners.

PROFESSIONAL PRACTICES/STAFF CULTURE

• Grow and contribute as an educator, colleague, learner, and community member including engaging in professional development and your own growth as a teacher in service of student learning and outcomes.
• Demonstrate advocacy,…