Pre K - 1st grade Teacher Fellow

You should know

We are committed to being a demonstrably anti-racist and genuinely inclusive organization and we expect you to help us achieve this

Compass Rose was founded with a mission to prepare every student for college and the world beyond. We promise to be a values-driven, social-justice institution that actively fights systemic racism. Our diverse staff, students, and communities will have a voice, support, safety, and recognition to show up as their best and authentic selves every day.

We promise to collectively uphold these behaviors in our work against systemic racism:

• Commit to humble self-reflection and continual learning to deeply understand how racism and oppression have impacted our schools, students, communities, and decisions.
• Operate with transparency on our current state, strategy, and progress to dismantle racist and inequitable policies and practices.
• Prioritize and elevate diverse voices.
• Create a community of learning within and beyond our network.

Your Mission

Redefine what’s possible in public education.

It is your primary responsibility to ensure that students have the skills and knowledge necessary to succeed and reach their full potential. You prepare all students with the academic and social skills necessary to persist and engage productively in their communities.

This is a paraprofessional role and is also a good role if you are trying to launch your career as a future teacher.

Your approach

Mission-Focused. At a minimum, you fanatically support students to achieve academic success and personal growth. You are resolute that every child will encounter success in every grade and subject. Lessons are delivered with careful consideration of each individual student all the knowledge and skills they must have to persist to and through college and to improve their community and change the world.

Equity and Opportunity Driven. Achieving true equity requires you to look at all aspects, from both a larger systems perspective and an individual student perspective. You put systems in place to ensure that every child has an equal chance for success. This requires you to understand the unique challenges and barriers faced by individual students or populations of students and you provide the support to help them overcome those barriers. You do this by establishing and maintaining cooperative working relationships with students and families based on trust, understanding, and respect for the communities in which they identify.

Objective and Data Focused. You know exactly what you want students to know and be able to do by the end of each lesson. You are accountable for delivering high-quality, objective-driven lessons, and track the data to ensure mastery.

Scaffolded. You break complex thinking skills into discrete steps. Scaffolding is the support we provide to help students recall, practice, and internalize those steps. You provide scaffolding for all students when introducing a new skill to a class. You also provide additional scaffolding on an individual basis, to support our students’ learning differences.

Joyful. You deliver lessons to set students up to experience “edge-of-your-seat learning” and demonstrate the passion for the core intellectual work of each subject area. Joy, therefore, looks like a student so lost in an assignment that they lose track of time and are excited to teach others what they learned from you.

Rigorous. There are two dimensions of rigor: the degree of scaffolding and the complexity of the task. At peak levels of academic rigor, students are answering questions meaningful to the discipline with little scaffolding. They respond with complex sentences and properly support their ideas with evidence. Ultimately, we measure our ability to teach with rigor not by our intention or by “what was covered,” but by what our students learned, demonstrated through outputs of writing and speaking.

Restorative. You set clear expectations for all students so they know the path to be successful inside and outside of the classroom. You believe and engage in restorative practices so that ownership can be taken, relationships can be strengthened and repaired and commitments can be affirmed. You help students make the right decisions.

Other responsibilities

• Provide after school or Saturday tutoring
• Volunteer for student recruitment events
• Attend campus and network professional development
• Participate in weekly manager check-ins and observation debrief meetings
• Participate in grade team meetings
• Co-plan lessons with the lead teacher
• Effectively use technology to support instruction and student learning

You

• Have a High School Diploma or GED
• Have an Associates degree or a minimum of 48 college hours
• Have experience working with students in grades K-12

Compensation and Benefits

• Competitive paraprofessional salary based on credentials and experience ranging from $29,000-$33,500 (the equivalent of approximately $15.20-$19.85/hour)
• Health benefits including medical, dental, vision, and supplementary coverage with multiple plan options
• Employer-funded Health Reimbursement Arrangement (HRA)
• Employer-paid Long-term Disability and Life Insurance
• Paid local personal days, paid bereavement leave, and paid parental leave
• Participation in Texas Teacher Retirement System (TRS)
• Full time, Nonexempt, 10-month

COMPASS ROSE Public Schools does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, sex or disability, in admission or access to, or treatment of employment in its programs and activities. Any person having inquiries concerning the organization's compliance with the regulations implementing Title VI of Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Title VI), Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (Section 504), or Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA), may contact COMPASS ROSE Human Resources at (210) 540-9265

This position may be partially or fully funded from federal grants or programs, state grants, philanthropic grants, or local sources.