2024-2025 Kindergarten - 2nd Grade Teacher

**2024-2025 Kindergarten - 2nd grade Teacher (Bastrop, TX)**:
**Our Commitment to Equity & Inclusion**

Achieving true equity requires you to look at all aspects, from both a larger systems perspective and an individual student perspective. You put differentiated and culturally relevant systems in place to ensure that every child has an equal chance for success. This requires you to understand the unique challenges and barriers faced by individual students or populations of students and you provide the support to help them overcome those barriers. You do this by establishing and maintaining cooperative working relationships with students and team members based on trust, understanding, and respect for the communities in which they identify.

**Your Mission**

Redefine what’s possible in public education. It is your primary responsibility to prepare all students with the academic and social skills necessary to persist and engage productively in their communities. However, learning does not stop in the classroom. At Compass Rose, we engage with the community regularly, asking families what they want to see from their graduates, listening to them, and taking their wishes seriously, and we use the information we learn to shape our schools. Our goal is to always align our program with the desires of our community. To this end, you teach:

- A set of college-bound academic, culturally relevant skills that prepare students to be successful in college and the competitive world beyond.
- A set of social/emotional skills related to how we treat one another, work as a team and coach ourselves to work through the challenges we face.

**You Live by our RIGHT Values**
- ** Respect**: We value each others’ diverse perspectives and experiences, communicate clearly and consistently, hold high expectations with empathy, and take time to really get to know others.
- ** Ingenuity**: We challenge ourselves to find new solutions to the most difficult problems. We always welcome the opportunity to think creatively.
- ** Growth**: We will undoubtedly face adversity. We commit to give and receive feedback and to be relentlessly reflective even in the most challenging problems.
- ** Honesty**: We assume the best of others, provide authentic feedback & praise, reflect on our own strengths and areas for development, and act with courage to always do what is right over what is easy.
- ** Teamwork**: You genuinely believe that ALL students can achieve excellence and that requires that you see the best in every person you interact with (students and team members alike) every day. We know that we are strongest and most successful when we work together.

**Your Responsibilities**

**Planning**
- Instructional materials align to state content standards and are appropriate for diverse learners, requiring intellectual preparation that considers potential misconceptions.
- Data assessments collect/analyze formal and informal data to monitor progress of all students.
- All lessons connect to students’ prior knowledge and experiences.
- Questions encourage all students to engage in complex, higher-order thinking.

**Instructional Delivery**
- Set academic expectations that challenge and create productive struggle.
- Persist with the lesson, ask probing questions, and address student mistakes until there is evidence that students demonstrate mastery of the objective.
- Consistently implement an 80/20 classroom where 80% of the time students are engaged in rigorous practice, different types of thinking and doing the heavy cognitive lift to take the initiative of their own learning.
- Convey accurate content knowledge in multiple contexts.
- Integrate learning objectives with other disciplines.
- Always presents content that is reflective of and affirming to students' identities and brings awareness to global diversity.
- Adapt lessons to address the individual needs of all students and provide differentiated instructional methods and content to ensure students have the opportunity to master what is being taught.

**Learning Environment**
- Procedures, routines, and transitions are clear and efficient to create a safe, organized, and engaging learning environment.
- Consistently engages in community and restorative circles with students.
- The teacher builds trust authentically and cares for the whole child as well as the family unit the child is a part of.
- Advocates for the needs of students in the classroom.

**Professional Practices and Responsibilities**
- Meet professional standards in accordance with the Code of Ethics and Standard Practices for Texas Educators and Compass Rose Employee handbook/policies. (e.g., attendance, professional appearance, and behaviors, timeliness to work, meeting deadlines, uses discretion with confidential information, using good judgment in performing responsibilities)
- Set short
- and long-term professional goals based on self-assessment, reflection, and supervisor feedback.
- Engage in professional lear