SYLead Teacher

About Apple Tree

Apple Tree’s mission is to close the achievement gap before students get to kindergarten. To accomplish this mission, we focus exclusively on Preschool and Pre‑K education. We provide free, full‑day public charter school programming for three‑ and four‑year olds in 12 locations across Washington, DC, employing our innovative and award‑winning instructional model, called Every Child Ready (ECR). This instructional model provides educators with tools and resources for “What to Teach”, “How to Teach” and “How to Measure Success.”

Our instructional model is also used with partners across the nation. We continuously test and improve this model through feedback from Apple Tree educators, partners and other stakeholders to ensure that children are learning and exploring through play and appropriate instruction.

Apple Tree’s mission is to close the achievement gap before students get to kindergarten. To accomplish this mission, we focus exclusively on Preschool and Pre‑K education. We provide free, full‑day public charter school programming for three‑ and four‑year olds in 12 locations across Washington, DC, employing our innovative and award‑winning instructional model, called Every Child Ready (ECR). This instructional model provides educators with tools and resources for “What to Teach”, “How to Teach” and “How to Measure Success.”

Our instructional model is also used with partners across the nation. We continuously test and improve this model through feedback from Apple Tree educators, partners and other stakeholders to ensure that children are learning and exploring through play and appropriate instruction.

The Lead Teacher, with the support of a teaching team, is responsible for the growth and development of a classroom of students. The Lead Teacher uses his/her knowledge of the development of young children, the ways in which young children learn and scientifically based practice to provide instruction and support the social, emotional and cognitive development of young children. Lead Teacher is a non-supervisory position, and reports to the Principal.

This is an on‑site position based in Washington, DC.

• Create a safe, clean, thematically based, attractive and engaging centers‑based classrooms that encourage both exploration and complex play
• Ensure the classroom contains sufficient supplies and materials for the weekly plans and for all components of the day, and that unit materials are inventoried before and after each unit
• Encourage children’s ownership and contributions to the classroom environment

• Implement the Every Child Ready (ECR) instructional model with fidelity and collaborates with the coach and principal to ensure fidelity
• Demonstrate an understanding of the problem‑solving Response to Intervention (RTI) Instructional model
• Actively seek out available resources and supports for children who are not making expected progress, provides additional support for students in need of remediation and differentiation in the classroom
• Use a variety of observational and direct assessment tools in collaboration with ECR standards to determine children’s varying needs and opportunities
• Use information and data from a variety of sources in order to differentiate instruction for all children
• Establish clear behavior expectations, rules and procedures to maximize learning time. Ensures effective implementation of universal behavior management systems as well as targeted plans to support student behavior
• Actively support the diversity of learners in their classrooms (e.g. cultural, linguistic…