Position Overview:

The Central Falls School District seeks to hire a talented, knowledgeable, and highly innovative certified educator to fill the Grade 4 General Education/Inclusion position at Veterans Memorial Elementary 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 Certification in elementary education, Grades 1 - 6, required (able to work with the right candidate on an emergency certification).
2. Valid RI Teaching Certification in ESOL, Grades 1 - 6, required or agree to become certified within three (3) years
3. Valid RI Teaching Certification in 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 Veterans Memorial Elementary 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 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 is 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 can learn and grow; learns from reflection and feedback, actively assesses own knowledge, skills, and talent deficits; and makes a concerted effort to close gaps.
9. Empower 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. Communicate 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.