Job Requirements

• Demonstrated success in designated authentic, standards-based instruction for middle school students.
• Ability and willingness to implement Making Waves Academy standards and best practices.
• Knowledge of various performance and traditional assessments and ability to analyze qualitative and quantitative student data.
• Demonstrated success teaching and communicating with families in a culturally and linguistically diverse community.
• Ability to manage a student-centered classroom and utilize instructional time for teaching and learning in various time increments.
• Experience integrating literacy instruction in your discipline.
• Knowledge of different learning styles and child cognitive and social development.
• Ability and willingness to collaborate with colleagues, parents, and community members.
• Commitment and ability to perform a variety of leadership responsibilities, including collaborating with families, participating in Academy Governance and school-planning meetings, and facilitating teacher inquiry groups and student work analysis.
• Knowledge of California state standards.
• California Teaching Credential and CLAD or AB1059, demonstrating compliance with NCLB “highly qualified teacher” status as defined by the California Department of Education.

Additional Desired Experience:

• Teaching experience in urban charter school
• National Board Certification
• Spanish language proficiency
• Teachers of color encouraged to apply

Familiarize Yourself With Making Waves Academy Curriculum and Instructional Design:

• Motivational Framework for Culturally Responsive Teaching (Ginsberg and Wlodkowski, 2000)
• Other People's Children and The Skin We Speak (Lisa Delpitt 1995, 2000)
• A Mind at a Time and All Kinds of Minds (Dr. Mel Levine, 2002)
• Reading Apprenticeship, West Ed's National Institute on Reading Apprenticeship (http://www.wested.org/cs/sli/print/docs/sli/ra_framework.htm)
• Teaching with a Multicultural Perspective (Leonard and Patricia Davidman, 1997)
• Culturally Relevant Pedagogy (Gloria Ladson-Billings, 1995)
• Dialogical Education and Critical Consciousness (Paulo Freire, 1970)
• Discourse and Powerful Literacy (James Gee, 1999)