CWC Los Angeles: 2024-25 English Teacher

CWC Los Angeles: 2024-25 English Teacher at Citizens of the World Los Angeles

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Application Deadline

Continuous

Date Posted

1/22/2024

Contact

Araseli Colley

Number of Openings

3

Salary

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Length of Work Year

2024-25

Employment Type

Full Time

About the Employer Our schools are socio-economically, racially and ethnically diverse communities. Our students engage in a challenging, experiential learning environment that develops their confidence, potential, and individual responsibility as true citizens of the world. Our schools are tuition free and non-religious. The mission of CWC Los Angeles is realized through our core fundamentals of academic excellence, diversity, and community. Our approach recognizes the importance of standardized tests while acknowledging that they reveal only a small part of the picture in determining overall student achievement. We believe that children must be assessed and educated well beyond the traditional “core” intelligences of reading, writing and computing. Art, music, dance, physical education, social-emotional development and other disciplines all have an important place in our schools and in the development of our children. Extending our focus to these pursuits will help develop a lifelong passion for learning and will give students a well-rounded education. The learning model of Citizens of the World Los Angeles is based on Constructivism, a theory in which knowledge is built (or constructed) on earlier knowledge. We structure learning to build on what students already know and support them in revising and refining their understanding as they work toward mastery. In addition to content knowledge, our students will engage in learning processes that develop conceptual understanding as well as self-knowledge. The following components help us bring this theory to life in each classroom: Project-based learning: Project-based learning integrates skills and knowledge through meaningful projects that make abstract learning concepts concrete. As reflective learners, children connect what they learn to their own lives. Teachers strive to teach for understanding, ensuring that students internalize deeply what they learn and are, in turn, able to apply what they learn to new and different circumstances and contexts. Low student-to-teacher ratios: In order to meet each child’s learning needs and to allow for a variety of instructional methods, CWC Schools’ staffing structure ensures a low student-to-teacher ratio. This allows for small-group instructional support from a teacher, while an assistant teacher may monitor independent work, lead partner games, or direct activities throughout the classroom. Talent and leadership: Our students benefit from excellent educators at

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Lead Classroom Teachers, Grades TK-5, Citizens of the World-Mar Vista 

The mission of Citizens of the World Charter Schools Los Angeles (CWCLA) is to provide a socio- economically, culturally and racially diverse community of students in the heart of Los Angeles with an intellectually challenging, experiential learning environment that develops each individual student’s confidence, potential, and individual responsibility as citizens of the world in which we live. CWCLA includes three high-performing, community-based elementary schools: CWC Hollywood (opened in September 2010); CWC Silver Lake (opened in August 2012); and CWC Mar Vista (opened in August 2013). In the Fall of 2016, across all three of our campuses, we will enroll over 1,400 students in grades TK- 5.

Our Schools

• Prepare students to become citizens of the world in an ever-changing future
• Promote academic rigor and experiential learning to support and develop children’s natural intellectual curiosity
• Embrace a constructivist, project-based learning approach
• Develop each child’s potential to live as a learner, both in school and out
• Reflect, welcome and celebrate the community’s diversity
• Strengthen the bonds among members of the school community and beyond

Our Core Values

• Excellence: We demand lasting quality.
• Diversity: We are better and stronger because of our differences.
• Authenticity: We are our true selves in this work, and we are candid.
• Community: We care deeply about people. We share and build partnerships. We celebrate, laugh, and seek joy, even in the tough times.
• Change: We welcome the unknown, embracing the unexpected and new. We adapt to meet the ever-changing times. We find new ways.

CWC Lead Teachers are experienced and innovative educators who are energized by CWC’s unique charter school environment. Teachers are expected to implement a high-quality, rigorous and engaging academic program and must have a passion for pedagogical practices grounded in constructivism, project-based learning and the multiple intelligences theory.

Responsibilities of a Lead Teacher

• Development and refinement of curriculum maps, lessons and units of study that meet or exceed requirements of Common Core Standards and also incorporate the multiple intelligences
• Ongoing assessment of student progress and achievement using a variety of means to collect and report on academic data
• Use of data to tailor instruction to meet individual student academic and social needs with a goal of every student performing on-grade level or above in all subject areas
• Creation of a strong classroom culture that is developed through CWC’s social emotional learning focus, and contributes to the broader school community
• Participation in professional development activities, both internal (led by the principal, lead teachers and visiting experts) and external (visiting other schools, attending conferences, and engaging in best practice sharing with others in the charter school community, etc.)
• Maintain frequent communication and engagement with students’ families, colleagues, and other school stakeholders
• Participate as an active member of the community to provide stewardship of the school and adherence to its mission and guiding principles
• Maintaining a high-level of professionalism including meeting deadlines, and commitments to self, students, and the community.

Staff and reporting relationships

The teacher will report to the Principal and Assistant Principal of the School. S/he will collaborate with and mentor a Teaching Associate.

Qualifications

The ideal teacher will have:

• A Bachelor’s degree and California multiple subject credential
• CLAD or BCLAD
• Successful completion of CBEST exam
• Minimum of three years experience teaching in relevant elementary grades*
• Experience working in a socio-economic, racial and culturally diverse classroom setting.
• Ability to effectively mange and instruct both small and large groups of students
• An exhibited ability to work with children in a caring and respectful manner in order to create a joyful, caring classroom environment where instructional time includes community building, conflict resolution, skill-building, and empowering students to be peacemakers and agents for positive social change
• Fluency in a second language (ideally Spanish) is preferred.
• Maturity, humility, strong work ethic, sense of humor, and a can-do attitude
• Personally invested in creating a classroom in which social emotional learning is the foundation of the culture
• Belief and willingness to ensure that all students can learn and achieve at high levels
• Strong communicator in verbally and in writing, and able to do so to a diverse audience.
• Experience working with diverse populations, including English language learners and students with special needs
• Applicants with less than three years teaching experience will not be considered for this role.

Skill/traits

• Maturity, humility, strong work ethic, sense of humor, and a can-do attitude
• Personally invested in creating a classroom in which social emotional learning is the foundation of the culture
• Belief and willingness to ensure that all students can learn and achieve at high levels
• Strong communicator in verbally and in writing, and able to do so to a diverse audience.
• Experience working with diverse populations, including English language learners and students with special needs

How to apply:

Interested applicants should submit the following materials as attachments via email to jobs@cwcmarvista.org. Please include your name and LEAD TEACHER in the subject line of your email.

• Resume
• Cover letter
• Responses to the following 3 questions (Maximum one page for each question):

1. How do you develop your learning environment to meet the varied social, emotional, and academic needs of your students? Specifically, what management strategies and structures do you use to foster this kind of learning environment?
2. Describe your philosophy and approach to teaching reading and writing.
3. Describe your philosophy and approach to teaching mathematics

Please email any questions to jobs@cwcmarvista.org. We look forward to receiving your application!

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