TITLE Arts Teacher 

REPORT TO Principal 

GENERAL SUMMARY 

Teachers are responsible to ensure students meet their academic, personal/social and career/college growth goals. Teachers collaborates with school colleagues, students, parents and community agencies to provide quality, culturally competent instructional design and pedagogy linked to learning inside and outside of the classroom. 

DESCRIPTION OF BASIC FUNCTIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES (GENERAL) 

1. Ensures an advocacy, integrity and clear articulation of the founding principles of Epiphany Prep Charter’s educational program for students;
2. Models with professional language and action to establish innovative teaching and learning practices in a non-traditional school model in the first year of opening and subsequent years;
3. Ability to establish a flexible learning space that promotes hands on learning for students a access language for all students with various levels of English proficiency;
4. Demonstrates an ability to design and deliver culturally competent elementary content with fluency in target language required (both written and spoken);
5. Provides a strong leadership voice and action to integrate the content across grade levels to encourage student grade level mastery;
6. Participates with purpose and expected to share professional development with colleagues to ensure fidelity of academic, personal/social and college/career student growth goals;
7. Develops, establishes, communicates and monitors the culture of a restorative practices classroom to maximize student’s strengths to achieve a sense of belonging;
8. Shares, regularly, with parents and colleagues students’ progress on academic, persons/social and career/college growth goals, keeps appropriate records, prepares reports;
9. Assesses student knowledge and skill grade level mastery with multiple accountability tools then personalizes the learning plan; 

 ADDITIONAL RELATED DUTIES/RESPONSIBILITIES  

1. Provides leadership voice and action to supplemental and content material, and instructional supplies; maintains required inventory records;
2. Ensures a comfortable learning physical space with culturally competent literature, student work, and/or performance tasks;
3. Supervises pupils on recess, bus, and before and after school duty and in out-of-classroom activities during the assigned working day;
4. Administers group standardized tests in accordance with District testing program;
5. Participates in curriculum development programs within the school assignment and/or District level;
6. Participates in grade level team meetings within the school and District.
7. Shares in sponsorship of student activities and participates on faculty committees;
8. Coordinate the work of aides, teacher assistants and other paraprofessionals;
9. Performs other duties as assigned; 

 WORKING CONDITIONS  

1. Ability to work at a desk, conference table or in meetings of various configurations;
2. Ability to stand and circulate for extended periods of time;
3. Ability to see for purposes of reading laws and codes, rules and policies, and other printed matter and observing students;
4. Ability to hear and understand speech at normal levels;
5. Ability to communicate so others will be able to clearly understand normal conversation;
6. Ability to bend and twist, stoop, kneel, run and crawl;
7. Ability to reach in all directions;
8. Ability to lift up to 25 pounds;
9. Ability to carry up to 25 pounds;  

QUALIFICATIONS  

1. Must pass pre-employment physical examination and fingerprint clearance;
2. Meets the requirements of No Child Left Behind as a Highly Qualified Teacher;
3. CLAD certificate required BCLAD; Dual Language Immersion Certification or Academic Literacy Development for English Language Learners Certification; and Master’s Degree, preferred;
4. Multiple Subject Credential (required)
5. Single Subject Credential (optional)
6. English and Spanish language skills preferred;