Mission: Partnership Academy’s mission is to create learning experiences and partnerships that empower students to achieve their greatest potential in order to be positive contributors in their community.
Vision: To be an innovative school that prepares students for a successful future.
Job Description:
Partnership Academy has a strong commitment to culturally and developmentally relevant instruction for all students. Through a highly collaborative culture, Partnership Academy teachers work in teams to provide differentiated and hands-on instruction. Partnership Academy supports its educators to constantly improve their instruction in ways that directly impact students’ academic, linguistic, social, and emotional growth.
The classroom teacher will collaborate to provide exceptional instruction in literacy, math, science, social studies, and social/emotional skills to a class of 26 students of 1st or 2nd second graders. Through weekly professional development sessions, formal and informal observations, and frequent feedback. Partnership Academy educators are encouraged and motivated to constantly push themselves to perform at the highest standards. We are looking for a classroom teacher who can collaborate effectively with a strong team, including one other classroom teacher, a grade level intervention teacher, special education staff, and an Emergent Bilingual teacher. In addition, the teacher should stay highly engaged with collaborative teaching and mentoring systems of support.
Teachers in this position must also ensure they analyze and adapt the provided curriculum to support Minnesota state standards, effectively collect and interpret data to guide instruction, provide individualized instruction based on student needs, partner with families and guardians to support students, and establish a strong culture of learning.
Qualifications:
Minnesota Teaching License required
Spanish speaker preferred but not required
Experience working with culturally and linguistically diverse students preferred
Experience in Science of Reading/ Structured Literacy preferred.