Description

Live Oak School supports the potential and promise of each student. We provide a strong academic foundation, foster skills to effect change, and develop courageous and conscientious learners from all backgrounds. We inspire students to advance equity and inclusion, to act with compassion and integrity, and to pursue a lifelong passion for learning.

Live Oak is accepting resumes for an Early Elementary Teacher in the early elementary grades (kindergarten-second) to begin in August, 2024. Applicants should have experience as head teachers, professional training, enjoy collaborative work on curriculum development, demonstrate a commitment to issues of equity and social justice, and feel a resonance with the school’s mission, vision, values, and educational philosophy. Please submit a resume, cover letter, and statement of educational philosophy.

Early Elementary Teachers at Live Oak work in a team teaching structure, collaborating with a co-lead teacher in each classroom of 22-24 students.

Requirements

Primary Responsibilities and Duties

• Collaborate with the grade level teaching team teacher to plan, consistently document, and implement the grade-level curriculum in accordance with the school’s educational philosophy, established scope and sequence, and adopted resources. 
• Develop and implement robust assessment practices; provide regular and individualized feedback to students.
• Manage student behavior with the use of classroom and management strategies that are structured, consistent, respectful, responsive to student needs to build a safe, orderly, inclusive classroom community, and aligned with the adopted resources. 
• Understand and model the school’s mission, vision, and values in relationships with students, colleagues, and families, including the school’s commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion.
• Create a classroom community that thrives in constructivist practices. 
• Offers an understanding in the area of reading by providing Orton-Gillingham, multi-sensory reading lessons through direct instruction for identified groups across the grade level with an emphasis on emergent, beginning, and transitional readers.
• Engage in self-reflection and professional growth through participation in the Professional Growth Program including goal setting, professional development activities, and ongoing dialog with Lower School Head. 
• Collaborate with the Learning Specialist, School Counselor, and Lower School Head, in providing students with academic and social support, and attend family/support meetings as needed. 
• Participate in staff, lower school division, grade-level meetings, and other meetings as needed to accomplish the goals of the program. 
• Uphold professional standards of punctuality, discretion, and professionalism.
• Facilitate and record notes for Fall and Spring Parent/Guardian Conferences.
• Prepare semester report cards and student portfolios.
• Coordinate a variety of divisional events for the grade level; including, Acorn Stories, Merry Go Round, Step Up, and concerts.
• Coordinate student presentations and participation at assemblies. 
• Communicate and engage with families regularly (write posts to class websites and newsletter articles).
• Supervise students during lunch and recess duties. 
• Attend weekly library class with students to support them during whole-group and individual work time.
• Collaborate with the grade level team in planning and implementing New Student Orientation.
• Actively participate in opening and closing weeks.

Additional School Wide Expectations:

• Support admissions work through tours and visitors, as well as participating in Open Houses.
• Lead a monthly meeting of a mixed age group of Live Oak students (Groves). 
• Participate in Lower School Back to School Night.
• Participate in Camp Live Oak. 
• Attend the Art Show.
• Attend professional development.
• Engage the summer reading.