Teacher Job Description

Teacher Job Description

Teacher Duties and Responsibilities

Teachers will follow the values, tenets, philosophies, principles, practices, and duties outlined in the Academy Constitution. In summary, teachers will:

  1. Include each and every student; Serve the needs, desires, and interests of each and every student; Respect and honor each and every student.

  2. Develop positive and meaningful relationships with each and every student, and listen to, work with, study with, learn alongside, and advocate for each and every student.

  3. Identify, understand, and plan for the needs, desires, and interests of each and every student.

  4. Provide offerings, activities, opportunities, and space, including but not limited to facilities, materials, equipment, resources, curriculum, teaching and learning strategies, instruction, assistance, tutoring, coaching, guidance, and counseling, to each and every student.

  5. Learn each and every student's home language, value that language, and offer instruction in that language, in addition to English and any other language requested by each student.

  6. Learn about each and every student’s home culture, value that culture, and offer instruction in and activities related to that culture, in addition to any other culture requested by each student.

  7. Learn about each and every student’s home life, value that home life, and take each student’s home life into account relative to all offerings, activities, opportunities, and spaces.

  8. Advocate for each and every student, do the right thing for each and every student, and demand the right thing be done for each and every student.

  9. Working with students, govern, administer, and operate the Academy.

Teacher Schedule

Teachers will work an eight hour day. Four of these hours will be devoted to teaching. Four of these hours will be available to do other things, including the above duties and responsibilities, professional development, research and creative work, participation in the community, fundraising and business/project operations, and self-care.

Teacher Options

Teachers can be Cohort Teachers or Elective Teachers.

Cohort Teachers operate in co-teacher pairs who together take responsibility for one age-level student cohort and follow this cohort through their entire tenure/residence at the Academy. Cohort Teachers teach in the mornings.

Elective Teachers operate individually and/or in co-teacher pairs or groups who alone or together take responsibility for a domain. Elective Teachers teach in the afternoons.

Teacher Goals, Expectations, Qualifications, and Compensation

Teachers, acting from their own needs, interests, and desires, as well as out of the needs, interests, and desires of their students, shall strive to provide education and learning opportunities that are student-centered, project-based, entrepreneurial, artistic, problem-solving, cross-disciplinary, critical, democratic, multicultural and inclusive, autonomous and self-directed, and within a community of learners, scholars, leaders, and doers.

Teachers will be highly qualified, which may or may not include specific credentials, degrees, experience, knowledge, and/or ability. Teachers are also learners.

Teachers are employees of the Academy and all employees of the Academy are teachers. All employees-teachers shall be full-time employees and shall receive the same compensation, which at the opening of the Academy shall be $75,000 annual salary plus appropriate and meaningful health, retirement, and vacation benefits.