Job Description

With 135 students, Carbondale Community School is a tuition free public charter school that provides a balanced, integrated curriculum that encourages inquisitive, independent and self-motivated learners, incorporating strong academic skills woven into project-based learning opportunities. This curriculum is achieved within the context of community, service, social-emotional development, outdoor education, and the visual and performing arts.

 

CCS strives to maintain a healthy social, emotional, and physical environment with high educational standards and a focus on the four guiding points of our school’s compass:

• Social Justice: Teaching and modeling social responsibility, respect, tolerance, diversity, service, caring, compassion, integrity, equity and peace.
• Community: Building a strong sense of community through parental, student, teacher and community involvement and volunteerism.
• Responsibility: Embracing individuality, personal responsibility and accountability.
• Lifelong Learning: Pursuing a progressive, child-centered approach to creative, self-directed, lifelong learning.

Required Qualifications:

 

• Highly Qualified in Elementary Education.  

 

Preferred Qualifications and Characteristics:

 

• Experience teaching in a 1st or 2nd grade classroom
• Comfortable co-teaching in a multi-age classroom
• Ability to collaborate and build enduring relationships with students, staff, and families
• Knowledge of and experience delivering scientific, research-based literacy instruction
• Knowledge of and experience with high quality, Common Core-aligned mathematics instruction
• Adept at planning and delivering effective and engaging instruction that positively impacts all students’ achievement and growth
• Experience designing rigorous, integrated, project-based learning experiences for a wide range of learners
• Background in outdoor and experiential education
• Proficient at creating a positive, cooperative classroom culture through high expectations, consistent routines, and a focus on social-emotional development and service leadership
• Demonstrates flexibility and creativity in response to individual strengths and needs
• Skilled at using frequent formal and informal assessment, delivering growth-minded written and verbal feedback, analyzing data, and adjusting instruction to achieve exceptional results
• Previous experience working with a teaching partner or team to achieve common, student-focused goals
• Excellent communication and problem-solving skills
• Willingness to grow professionally and personally
• Passion for social justice and community connections

 

 

 

How to Apply

Send letter of interest and resume to jobs@discovercompass.org by 10am, June 23.

Bureaus: Colorado. Job Categories: Full-Time. Job Types: Teacher. Salaries: 40,000 - 60,000.