The Opportunity

CTE Teacher: 2D/Graphic Design Teacher (23-24SY) — Competencies and Qualifications

Lighthouse Community Public Schools is looking for a talented High School CTE Teacher to teach 2D/Graphic Design to join our team who is relentlessly committed to ensuring that traditionally underserved students of color achieve our mission of completing college, securing a career of choice, and becoming lifelong changemakers in their communities. LCPS teachers believe that this important mission is not only attainable; it is essential to transforming our Oakland community. If you are inspired by our mission and vision and want to be a changemaker in students’ lives here in Oakland, then please apply and join us!

You will embody the following Core Competencies to be an effective change-agent:

• Be an anti-racist educator committed to educational justice as evidenced by respectful and supportive relationships, well-planned instruction, rigorous daily assessment, and daily opportunities for students to revise and refine their work.

• Facilitate cognitively engaging student-centered learning.

• Demonstrate a keen belief and ability to create, collect and analyze achievement data to drive student learning and outcomes for all students

• Be a strong community builder and team collaborator

• Model and foster a growth mindset with agency, persistence, and flexibility

• Be a collaborative and responsible professional educator

Your responsibilities will include:

INSTRUCTIONAL VISION

• Specific teaching responsibilities of this role include:

• Teaching multiple courses of 2D Design and Graphic Design that reflect our student-centered, hands-on, maker mindset. Lighthouse Design Pathway courses are aligned to the Product Design and Innovation CTE standards. These courses include:

  • 2D Design - An introductory course that providse all 9th grade students at Lighthouse with some fundamental skills and knowledge in visual art and design.
  • Graphic Design - An intermediate course for 11th grade students in which students take on more complex design projects such as the creation of logos, posters, and t-shirts.

• Pathway Development: Collaborate with other Lighthouse staff to ensure that Lighthouse’s CTE Pathway follows the Linked Learning approach and fulfills our school’s annual Measue N goals.

• In addition to your content courses, all LCPS teachers are assigned an advisory (known as a “Crew”) and either a guided study hall or designated ELD course depending on the need of the school and the teacher’s specific licensure.

• Demonstrate culturally responsive pedagogy which gives students the skills, practice, and daily opportunity to grapple with rigorous content each day and includes unrelenting high expectations and an assets-based approach for every student.

• Plan, internalize, and implement effective, grade-level standards-based curriculum, units, and lessons that are learner-driven and are modified or differentiated while maintaining rigor to provide access and results for students with IEPs, African-American and ELL students.

• Ensure that students are at the center of their own learning and deeply engaged in ways that foster agency and self-direction.

• Utilize, collect, and analyze rigorous, student-engaged assessments, both formative and summative, to identify and address students’ areas of growth and mastery of learning objectives. To include Altitude, ANET, MAP, as well as others.

• Additional Duties, as assigned by Supervisor

CLASSROOM & SCHOOL CULTURE

• Builds and maintains classroom culture that is supportive and learning-centered, undergirded by strong management, efficient procedures and systems, but most evident in the full inclusion of African-American boys, students with trauma, and students with IEPs in the social and learning community.
• Create positive relationships by building nurturing and affirming teacher-student, student-student, and teacher-family partnerships with a focus on building a community of risk-taking, collaborative learners.

PROFESSIONAL PRACTICES/STAFF CULTURE

• Grow and contribute as an educator, colleague, learner, and community member including engaging in professional development and your own growth as a teacher in service of student learning and outcomes.
• Demonstrate advocacy, flexibility, autonomy, and collegiality.
• Demonstrates self-awareness, reflects on practice with self and others, and acts on feedback.
• Demonstrate flexibility, and ownership of our collective results.
• Administer all policies and procedures in a professional and timely manner as mandated by LCPS, and state and federal agencies (i.e., attendance records, dress code, reporting of sexual/physical abuse).

Are you ready to join an educational movement that is bigger than one classroom?

If you are excited about the opportunity to foster and facilitate a progressive growth mindset in students and engage in transformational teaching, we are actively looking for student-centered, dedicated and dynamic teachers.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

We would love to hear from you if your educational toolbox includes the following:

• B.A. or B.S. required; Master’s Degree, preferred
• Appropriate California Teaching Credential or commitment and ability to acquire one
• Deep knowledge of California Common Core State Standards, student-centered, mastery-based learning, curriculum planning, and data analysis, preferred
• 2+ years teaching urban youth with transformational results, preferred
• Familiarity navigating educational platforms
• Experience teaching in a progressive school model
• Bilingual in Spanish, preferred

SUPERVISION

This position will report to School Principal or principal’s designee

TIME COMMITMENT

This position is 1.0 FTE (full-time exempt) and follows a 10-month (190 day) work year with significant student-free days for professional learning and collaboration with colleagues and interaction with families. All new instructional staff will report on July 24, 2023.

Common Building Hours: All teachers are expected to maintain common building hours for their school site. These may be subject to change for the 2023-24SY:

• Lighthouse Campus Building Hours: 8:00 - 4:00 pm M, Tu, Th, Fri and 8:00-5:00 on Wednesdays for Professional Development.

OUR COMPENSATION PACKAGE

At Lighthouse Community Public Schools we take good care of our employees. We provide a competitive compensation and benefits package, including a competitive salary and generous health and retirement benefits (100% employee health coverage/50% for dependents; 8% employer-matching for retirement program; medical and dependent FSA).