Position Overview:

The Central Falls School District seeks to hire a talented, knowledgeable, and highly innovative, certified educator to fill the Secondary Science (Biology) position at Central Falls High School for the 2024-2025 school year. All CFSD educators are expected to carry out the District’s core values of EQUITY, EMPOWERMENT, and EXCELLENCE as they work towards building relationships with students/colleagues, delivering personalized, high-quality instruction, cultivating strong partnerships with our families and community, and meeting all position expectations and District policies. Certified staff is expected to abide by the Rhode Island Professional Teaching Standards and the CFSD/CFTU collective bargaining agreement policies and procedures. Guided by the District’s Strategic Plan, we strive to prepare all students for success!

Position Requirements/Qualifications:

• Valid Rhode Island Department of Education Certification: Secondary Science Biology Grades 7-12. Will work with the right candidate to secure RIDE reciprocity.
• Valid Rhode Island Department of Education Certification in All Grades ESOL is required. If the applicant does not currently hold this certification, they are required to obtain an emergency certification and complete it within three (3) years.
• Demonstrate evidence of deep content and pedagogical knowledge in science standards.
• Experience successfully teaching students who are differently-abled and/or multilingual learners is greatly preferred.
• Strong commitment to the District’s core values of Equity, Empowerment, and Excellence
• Commitment to abiding by all professional teaching standards and policies as outlined by the Rhode Island Department of Education and the District’s policies, procedures, and the CFTU collective bargaining agreement.
• Under Rhode Island General Law 16-2-18.1, all NEWLY hired employees will be required to obtain a State and National background check (BCI) from the Rhode Island Attorney General's Office prior to the employment start date.

Please Note: When applicable and following RIDE licensure requirements, the District is open to exploring emergency certification if needed.

Position Responsibilities and Expectations:

• Creates and implements a compelling vision of the curriculum, teaching, and learning standards and practices that align with Common Core Standards and WIDA standards, which will result in college and career readiness for each student.
• Incorporates students’ backgrounds and experiences to improve performance and enhance instruction by using a variety of techniques to ensure content concepts are comprehensible and advance students’ science literacy.
• Develop and implement classroom and curricular accommodations and modifications for all students, including language development adaptations for ELLs.
• Ability to identify new approaches and strategies to learning and teaching that stimulates critical thinking and problem-solving techniques.
• Provides instructional support to help scaffold language and content domains to deliver rich, authentic instructions for all students.
• Uses various assessment information to plan instruction and set all academic goals, plans, activities, and actions on what is in the best interest of each student.
• Cultivates a stewardship of collaborative learning and leadership in and out of the classroom, distributing knowledge and expertise in a skillful way that empowers and supports others.
• Consistently practice a growth mindset, demonstrating a strong class culture and using feedback to reflect and set goals.
• Fulfills high academic standards and shares expertise constantly with support personnel, colleagues, and staff to ensure that all student academic and social/emotional needs are met and regularly provided; specifically, collaborating with special education and ELL colleagues to provide accommodations outlined in a student's IEP when needed and collaborating with staff to align curriculum with Common Core and Wida Standards.
• Ability to understand, analyze and evaluate information and make connections among multiple factors, data points, ideas, learning styles, personalities, and potential solutions to make the best decision possible.
• Incorporate a student's background in the lesson plan and understand how to make connections with prior native language development linguistically.
• Sets and pursues meaningful goals based on educational best practices and focused on improving student/stakeholder outcomes at all times.
• Consistently demonstrates a belief that the individual is capable of learning and growth; learns from reflection and feedback and actively assesses own knowledge, skills, and talent deficits and makes a concerted effort to close gaps.
• Empowers students to become self-motivated, responsible, and resilient learners.
• Maintains a positive and engaging learning environment that promotes the academic, social and personal well-being of all students.
• Ensure that practices enable students, staff, and parents to interact effectively in a culturally diverse environment in which ALL backgrounds, identities, customs, and traits are respected and built into the learning process.
• Demonstrates ethical behavior, expectations, and a genuine concern for others under all circumstances; models what is expected of others.
• Completes all tasks, reports, and all necessary requirements associated with teaching a class in a timely manner.
• Effectively communicates with families regularly to discuss student performance, attendance, progress, etc., via phone calls, emails, and written correspondence.
• Such other duties as deemed necessary by the building administrator.