Bilingual Pre K Lead Teacher

Fort Totten Clinic
100 Gallatin St. NE
Washington, DC 20011, USA

The Bilingual Pre-K Lead Teacher is part of the early childhood education team at Briya Public Charter School a leading two-generation education program serving parents and their young children. Briya is a Tier One Public Charter School, consistently achieving the highest educational outcomes through its innovative, family-centric programming.

Briya’s early childhood program serves children from six weeks through pre-kindergarten. In Briya’s dual-language Pre-K classes, children gain proficiency in both English and Spanish through an inquiry-based curriculum. Briya teachers draw inspiration from the pedagogical principles of Reggio Emilia and offer culturally sustaining education for emergent multilingual children. This involves collaborative work and daily play-based assessment of children in inclusive bilingual classrooms.

While children attend the early childhood program, their parents attend classes comprised of three highly integrated areas of study:
English, child development, and digital literacy. Briya also offers workforce development programs for advanced students to pursue career-ready certifications.

Briya has a strategic partnership with Mary’s Center, a Federally Qualified Health Center, further strengthening student families with comprehensive medical, dental, and social services. At three of its four campuses, Briya is co-located with Mary’s Center.

Position may include, but is not limited to, the following tasks and responsibilities:

• Plan and carry out learning experiences across developmental and content areas (language, cognitive, social-emotional and physical, literacy, math, science, social studies, the arts, etc.). Support children’s concept and skill development through thoughtful, playful and engaging instruction.
• Create and maintain an indoor and outdoor learning environment that is organized, comfortable, safe, non-commercial, non-stereotypic, facilitates multisensory learning, and is responsive to children’s changing interests, abilities, and needs. Set up interest areas for children and modify them to connect them to children’s evolving ideas and projects. Utilize the framework of the Creative Curriculum, principles of the Reggio Emilia approach, and Anti-Bias Education principles to inform design.
• Develop reflective and responsive weekly written plans that build upon children’s emerging interests, ideas, skills, languages, cultures, and incorporate the goals and objectives of the program into planned experiences, modifying plans as necessary to accommodate teachable moments and opportunities.
• Guide learning experiences and interactions that advance children’s language and literacy skills in the target language of instruction. Follow a bilingual planned language approach and utilize evidence-based strategies to help emergent multilingual children build a strong foundation in oral and written language. Utilize research-based strategies and involve families to acknowledge and strengthen children’s home language.
• Use evidence-based strategies to establish caring connections with children, use co-regulation to help them regulate their emotions, and support children’s overall social emotional development.
• Demonstrate strong knowledge and implementation of assessment practices; principally through Teaching Strategies GOLD to engage in ongoing cycles of documentation and reflection across content areas. This includes:
  • Taking and entering objective observations
  • Linking observations to curriculum and setting preliminary checkpoint levels
  • Using performance data to guide planning and instruction
  • Completing progress…