Note: This job requires teaching Mathematics to high school and middle school including Calculus.

Why You Should Teach at Yellow Wood Academy

At YWA, everything we do is centered around the student. We are a team of dedicated educators who start every day looking for new and engaging ways to help our students grow and meet their academic and social-emotional goals.

Working at YWA provides teachers with the opportunity to teach students who are neurodiverse, need additional support and accommodations, or simply need a personalized approach. As a teacher here, you will work with students one-on-one and in small groups of three or four, adapting pace and approach to meet your students’ needs.

Your Role

We are seeking a math teacher who can teach middle school and high school math to support the school’s growing enrollment! As a math teacher, you will join our community of committed educators during the busiest part of our day. In addition, you will have the opportunity to participate in all of YWA's professional development and faculty collaboration workshops.

YWA's Educational Philosophy

Our philosophy is to provide every student with the tools and encouragement needed to pursue their own personal journey. We do this by constructing a unique educational program for our students that considers the whole child. All our programs are academically rigorous while personalizing the pace, style, and projects for our students.

YWA Community Values

Yellow Wood Academy welcomes a diverse community, and believes that diversity empowers an environment that inspires learning and growth. We believe that a community includes and embraces a range of differences in learning style, race, color, creed, religion, ethnic and national origin, gender, sexual orientation, socio-economic background, neurodiversity and life experiences. We foster and encourage respect for personal differences, growth of the individual, and diversity within our school population.

Teaching Qualities and Mindsets that Lead to Success at YWA:

• Balancing rapport building with academic progress
• Helping students access your own love and understanding of the subject matter
• Designing thoughtful and adaptive lesson plans to make each class meaningful
• Curious and student-focused approach to learning and behaviors (i.e. work refusal)
• Positive outlook in the growth of the school as a community
• Calm professionalism with students, faculty, and families

Physical Demands and Work Environment:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit for long periods of time.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $47,000.00 - $60,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Flexible schedule
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Retirement plan
• Vision insurance

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Day shift
• Monday to Friday

Application Question(s):

• Are you willing to either show proof of COVID-19 vaccination or medical exemption? (Religious and Philosophical exemptions are not able to be accepted)
• Are you willing to submit to a background check prior to starting?

Education:

• Bachelor's (Required)

Experience:

• Teaching: 1 year (Preferred)

License/Certification:

• WA Teaching Certification (Preferred)

Work Location: One location