Job Description

Electives Teacher

Bloom Academy Charter School exists to provide a high quality, rigorous, and joyful educational experience to students in grades kindergarten to fifth grade. We are a new and independent school seeking to add deeply mission aligned, smart, hardworking, and emotionally intelligent people to our founding staff. We opened August 2019 with a cohort of kindergarten and first graders and now serve scholars in grades K-5.

Driven by our mission to ensure every child succeeds, our teachers will be responsible for delivering high quality, rigorous instruction and maintaining a joyful classroom environment for all students. We believe that teachers are key levers in producing student achievement. Therefore, Bloom Academy provides a working environment that intentionally supports and appreciates this incredibly demanding and important work through daily and weekly coaching and professional development. The Electives teacher will cultivate a safe, fun, and creative environment to electives while ensuring state requirements are met and lessons are aligned to TEKS standards.

Who We Are And What We Believe

At Bloom Academy we provide a safe, joyful, inclusive, and challenging learning environment for all students. This includes children with special needs. This includes children from low-income households. This includes children who have been historically marginalized. We believe that all children can learn at high levels. We believe that all children are extraordinary. We believe that children can only be as great as the adults in front of them. We believe that excellent teaching requires planning, coaching, constructive feedback and reflection. We believe that teaching is one of the greatest and hardest responsibilities in the world. We treat each other with respect and value the talent each person adds to our organization no matter their position on our organizational chart.

The Electives Teacher will have the following key responsibilities:

• Provide a strong foundation of learning and achievement for scholars in K-5.
• Provide TEKS-aligned electives lessons (art, health, PE, and science) to scholars in K-5.
• Enforce classroom management procedures and protocol.
• Create and maintain an inclusive classroom environment that values high expectations and character development for every child.
• Provide consistent and clear high academic and behavioral expectations.
• Perform duties during non-academic times (arrival, breakfast, lunch, recess, and dismissal).
• Assist with grading and data analysis.
• Communicate effectively with students, families, and staff.
• Participate in feedback, coaching, and professional development sessions.
• Implement formal and informal fitness assessments to track each individual student's progress and learning needs, adjust lesson plans accordingly and update gradebook weekly.
• Communicate students' fitness and art progress with student and family on a biweekly basis.
• Enhance students' disposition toward leading a physically active lifestyle.
• Analyzes, demonstrates, and explains basic skills, knowledge and strategies of formal sports, games, rhythms, and fundamentals of body movement.
• Works cooperatively with other electives teachers in planning and implementing a balanced electives program.
• Perform duties as assigned by manager.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree required.
• Deep alignment with the school's mission and core values.
• A staunch belief that all students regardless of race or socio-economic status can achieve at high levels and be positive contributors to their communities.
• A successful background check in compliance with state law.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills and the ability to establish and maintain effective and collaborative working relationships with all school stakeholders.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office programs.

Preferred Key Competencies, Mindsets and Abilities:

• A growth mindset and high emotional intelligence.
• A social justice-oriented philosophy as it relates to the achievement gap and educational advancement of disenfranchised communities.
• Professional experience in a high needs/and or urban setting.
• Strong organizational and time management skills.

Disclaimer: This job description provides the general nature and level of work to be performed by individuals hired for this position. This is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities and duties required. Bloom Academy Charter School reserves the right to change any or all content of this job description based on the school's needs. If applicable, the incumbent will be notified of any changes before they take effect.

Bloom Academy is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and strive to create an inclusive environment for all adults and children who enter our doors.

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