Math Teacher

**Job Title**:Math Teacher

**Work Year**: 10.5 months

**Employment Type**:Exempt

**Salary Range**: $60,375-$95,126

**Supervisor**:Principal or Designee

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**OUR MISSION**

Invictus Academy of Richmond prepares 100% of students in grades 7-12 to thrive in the colleges of their choice, solve relevant problems, and communicate with confidence.

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**OUR SCHOOL**

Invictus Academy is a high performing independent public charter school located in El Cerrito, and we are seeking teachers who want to join our team and create an exceptional school.

As a teacher at Invictus, you set the tone for academic rigor, collaboration and have an orientation toward student outcomes. You have an unwavering belief in our students’ capabilities, and as a result, you do whatever it takes to support their growth.

Invictus creates joyful, rigorous classroom cultures where students understand the importance of the content they are learning, and how it connects to their everyday lives and ambitions. We work to ensure that in every lesson, the heavy lifting is done by our students.

We build trusting, authentic relationships with students, families, and colleagues. With these relationships as our foundation, we work closely with each other to support students in meeting the highest academic and behavior expectations. At Invictus, we are eager to learn about and implement restorative approaches to support students to be their best selves.

Invictus Academy of Richmond embodies humility and constantly strives to strengthen our knowledge, skills, and practice. We crave feedback and welcome opportunities to grow through observations, coaching meetings, and professional development.

We are fiercely solutions-oriented. We never shy away from a problem that we must solve to achieve our mission, but always bring potential solutions to the table.

**RESPONSIBILITIES**

The quality of our school cannot exceed the quality of our teachers. In that spirit, we are seeking exceptional individuals to execute the following “essential job duties” and responsibilities:

- With students, you:_
- Deliver excellent student supervision consistent with the age and abilities of students
- Set and hold high expectations for academics and behavior
- Develop trusting, authentic relationships with students and their families
- Create and maintain a joyful, safe, structured, and engaging school and classroom culture
- Demonstrate passion for the content area you teach
- Encourage students to take risks and learn from their mistakes
- Create opportunities for students to leverage the power of their voice
- Whole School Responsibilities:_
- Model and teach our core values: purpose, perseverance, productivity, growth mindset, integrity, leadership, joy, gratitude, mindfulness, and kindness
- Actively engage in professional development, including sharing strengths of your practice with colleagues
- Collaborate with fellow teachers, special education staff, and school leadership to ensure we continuously improve as a school and meet students’ needs
- Give and receive feedback to improve your practice, that of your peers, and school leaders, and create and maintain open, honest and respectful lines of communication
- Instructional Responsibilities:_
- Plan and execute engaging, rigorous, and relevant daily lessons aligned to state standards
- Communicate regularly with parents, striving for a ratio of three positive communications for each corrective one
- Utilize a variety of rigorous, authentic assessments to collect and respond to student achievement data
- Scaffold and differentiate your lessons to support students towards independent mastery of content
- Maximize the number of students actively participating in class and the depth of thinking they do, while maintaining a high bar for rigor
- Support advisory, tutorial, and elective activities
- Supervise and engage with students in person to ensure student safety and learning
- Other duties as assigned by the Principal or an administrator

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**REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS**
- Earned Bachelor’s Degree.
- Possession of either an English Learner (EL) Authorization, Bilingual, Cross-Cultural, Language and Academic Development (BCLAD) certificate, Cross-Cultural Language and Academic Development (CLAD), or Bilingual Certificate of Competence (BCC) required, or are working towards this.

**DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS**

**PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS**

This position is on-site. The employee must have sufficient mobility to report to campus, work in a classroom, and engage with students, with or without reasonable accommodations. The employee may be required to do light lifting, pushing/pulling, and bending, with or without accommodations. The employee must possess the ability to communicate with students, parents, and colleagues, with or without reasonable accommodations.

**NON-DISCRIMINATION**

Invictus Academy acknowledges and agrees that all perso