Position Overview:
The Central Falls School District seeks to hire a talented, knowledgeable, and highly innovative certified educator to fill the position of Secondary World Language 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: All Grades World Language Teacher, GradesPK-12 - Spanish, Required
● Valid Rhode Island Department of Education Certification: All Grades World Language Teacher, GradesPK-12 - Portuguese, French preferred
● Valid Rhode Island Department of Education Certification in Endorsement -Multilingual Learners 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 World Language standards.
● Experience with 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 Stateand 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 World Language curriculum, teaching, and learning
standards and practices that align with the Common Core and WIDA Standards and will result in college
and career readiness for each and every 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’ world
language 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 and reports 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.