Kindergarten Teacher

Company Description

Capitol Collegiate Academy is a tuition-free K–8 public charter school in South Sacramento committed to providing a high-quality education to all students, regardless of race or socioeconomic status. The school offers a rigorous, college-preparatory program that builds a strong academic foundation from kindergarten through eighth grade. Capitol Collegiate’s students, many of whom are socioeconomically disadvantaged, consistently achieve at higher levels in English Language Arts, Math, and Science than their peers in South Sacramento.

The school emphasizes cohesive, supportive student culture, structured learning environments, and high academic expectations. Capitol Collegiate also prioritizes robust professional development and systems-driven operations to help educators maximize student achievement.

This full-time, on-site Kindergarten Teacher role is based in the Greater Sacramento area. The Kindergarten Teacher will design and implement standards-aligned, developmentally appropriate lessons that foster foundational skills in literacy, numeracy, and social-emotional learning. Responsibilities include managing a positive, structured classroom environment, assessing student progress, and using data to adjust instruction. The role involves collaborating with colleagues and support staff, communicating regularly with families, and participating in professional development and school-wide initiatives.

The Kindergarten Teacher will contribute to the school’s mission by maintaining high expectations and supporting each student’s long-term path from kindergarten to college.

• Strong foundation in Education and Teaching, with experience in early childhood or elementary classrooms.
• Demonstrated skills in Lesson Planning and Training to design effective, standards-based instruction and support student learning.
• Excellent Communication skills for engaging students, collaborating with colleagues, and partnering with families.
• Relevant teaching credential or license for K–8 education (or eligibility/in-progress), and a bachelor’s degree in Education or a related field.
• Ability to create a structured, inclusive, and culturally responsive classroom environment aligned with college-preparatory expectations.
• Commitment to ongoing professional development, use of student data to inform instruction, and collaboration within a mission-driven school community.

• Deliver content clearly, accurately and with coherence.
• Allocate instructional time to address the most important content for the grade-level or course.
• Anticipate common misunderstandings given the content, and ensure strategies are in place to overcome those misunderstandings.
• Structure and deliver lesson activities so that students do an appropriate amount of thinking required by the lesson.
• Pose questions and provide lesson activities that require students to cite evidence to support their thinking.
• Provide opportunities for students to respond to and build on their peers’ ideas.
• Accurately and frequently check that students understand the key content needed to master the lesson at key moments in the lesson.
• Provide comprehensive feedback to students on written work (both verbal and written)
• Recognize the root of student errors and re-teach content to address the under laying cause of student misunderstanding.
• Implement school-adopted assessments and use data to inform instruction.

• Design and execute classroom systems and procedures for consistency and efficiency.
• Maintain a physical classroom environment that is clean, organized, safe, and mission-aligned.
• Set and uphold behavioral expectations and rationale that can be clearly articulated by students.
• Leverage positive narration, challenge, precise praise, incentive systems, and other motivational techniques to support students to meet behavior expectations.
• Give appropriate interventions for students not meeting behavior…