Position Overview:
The Central Falls School District seeks to hire a talented, knowledgeable, and highly innovative certified
educator to fill the position of 6th Grade General Education/Inclusion teacher at Calcutt Middle School
for the 2023-2024 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!
Requirements:
1. Valid RI Teaching Certificate in Elementary Education, Grades 1 - 6, required
2. Valid RI Teaching Certification in ESOL, All Grades required within three years
3. Valid RI Teaching Certification in Elementary Special Education, Grades 1 - 6, preferred
4. Bilingual Spanish preferred
5. Demonstrated success teaching students with disabilities
6. Demonstrated success teaching students who are English Language Learners
7. Demonstrated commitment to innovative instructional programming with a focus on
personalization
8. Demonstrated commitment to all families through consistent and intensive family engagement
efforts and community outreach
9. Demonstrated commitment to research-based professional development and collaboration
resulting in improved student outcomes and achievement
10. Engage in required professional development and collaboration sessions to support and improve
the school.
General Duties
1. Collaborates as part of a teaching team in a collaborative inclusive model with a special educator,
another classroom teacher, a teaching assistant, and other personnel as indicated by student
needs and/or IEPs, in addition to being part of his/her grade level team.
2. Implement curricula, including, but not limited to, district mandated curricula, instructional
practices, and assessments that are culturally competent and that align with WIDA, Common
Core Standards, and evidence-based practices.
3. Identifies new approaches and strategies for learning and teaching that are evidence-based,
student-centered, and focused on improving performance.
4. Cultivates 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.
5. Fulfills high academic standards and consistently shares expertise with support personnel,
colleagues, staff, family members, and community partners to ensure that all student academic
and social/emotional needs are met in school; specifically, collaborating with special education
staff to provide accommodations outlined in students’ IEPs and MLL specialist to provide
language scaffolds for MLLs.
6. Sets and pursues meaningful goals based on educational best practices and an asset-based
approach and focused on improving student achievement and outcomes at all times.
7. 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.
8. 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.
9. Empowers students to become self-motivated, self-managed, responsible, and resilient learners.
10. Ensures practices that 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.
11. Demonstrates ethical behavior and a genuine concern for others under all circumstances;
models what is expected of others.
12. Communicates with families frequently and consistently to discuss student performance,
attendance, progress, etc. via phone calls, emails, written correspondence, in-person meetings,
and family events.
13. Such other duties as deemed necessary by the building administrator.