Elementary School Teacher

KairosPDX; Portland (OR); On-site; USD 54,000 - 108,000; Full time

Job summary

KairosPDX is looking for a full-time Elementary School Teacher starting in Summer 2025 to join their mission of delivering equitable education. The role focuses on fostering a nurturing and inclusive classroom environment, utilizing innovative teaching methods, and contributing to the school's values of respect, responsibility, and excellence.

Benefits

Paid sick/personal leave days

Participation in Public Employees Retirement System (PERS)

Employer contribution for health insurance

Professional development opportunities

Qualifications

• At least one or two years of experience teaching in an elementary classroom.
• Experience working with children from diverse racial and cultural backgrounds.
• Training in early education and/or human development preferred.

Responsibilities

• Work with a team to further the academic mission.
• Discipline students in a fair and consistent manner.
• Plan and prepare the environment for the academic and non-academic needs of children.

Skills

Effective interpersonal skills

Time management

Conflict management

Education

Bachelor’s Degree

Master’s Degree (preferred)

Job description

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$54,571.00/yr - $107,686.00/yr

KaiKairosPDX is a non-profit organization focused on delivering excellent, equitable education to underserved children, their families and their communities. Through innovative pedagogy, community collaboration and family partnership we are working to close Portland’s persistent achievement and opportunity gaps in measurable and sustainable ways. Our mission is to eliminate the prolific racial achievement and opportunity gaps by cultivating, confident, creative, compassionate, leaders. We aim to do this through an organizational approach that includes: PK-5 KairosPDX Learning Academy, Family Connections Programming, KairosPDX Training Academy and Local and Legislative Policy. Please visit www.kairospdx.org.

Working at KairosPDX

KairosPDX is currently seeking candidates fora full-time, Elementary Teacher position starting Summer 2025. Persons of color and members of other underrepresented groups are strongly encouraged to apply.

KairosPDX launched our flagship program, our Learning Academy, a public charter school sponsored by Portland Public Schools, located on N. Gantenbein Avenue in Portland in 2014. Our educational model is inquiry-based. Our curriculum approach is a culturally-responsive, workshop model that infuses mindfulness, restorative practice, studio art, STEM, music and fitness in our teaching.

KairosPDX launched our Training Academy in 2021. KairosPDX Training Academy is focused on training current leaders across multiple sectors on how to lead in an equity movement that is grounded in transformational change and rooted in a framework of belonging and the neuroscience of love. We provide training and professional development around rehumanization practices and protocols for administrators, educators, early childhood professionals, organizations, and businesses the tools to do the work in equity that KairosPDX puts into practice daily.

The Early Learning Academy, which opened in 2022 as a pilot site for Preschool for All, is designed to affirm and celebrate Black identity in young children and their families. It is grounded in the belief that culturally-specific, early learning experiences expand opportunities for children to actively engage in creating their own lives and to contribute fully to the quality of the world around them. We value the creativity, interests, ideas and questions of the children and adults at our school. We practice listening, observing, inquiring, being attentive, and reflecting together with children and families. We value the role of the arts and sciences as languages for thinking, expressing ideas, communicating who we are, and telling the stories of those we belong to – past and present.

Kairos is Greek for a special moment in time and we believe we are creating this time and space for children and families, making KairosPDX a very special place to work. We are committed to the core values of Respect, Responsibility, Excellence, Honesty, and Service. We value data, reflection, feedback and continuous improvement as we work together on behalf of our children and families.Our expectation is that staff at KairosPDX are invested in our mission and participate in creating structures, developing school culture and communicating our work to families and the larger community. Staff work together to support the whole child – academically, socially, emotionally and culturally, using published curriculum, current research and children’s own interests to build their curriculums. KairosPDX values data, reflection, feedback and continuous improvement as we work together on behalf of our children and families.

Overall Staff Responsibilities:

Share responsibility with a team of colleagues and parents to honor the mission

• To eliminate the prolific racial achievement and opportunity gaps by cultivating confident, creative and compassionate leaders,
• Practice the values of KairosPDX in professional conduct and daily interactions

respect, responsibility, honesty, excellence and service to community

• Incorporate the beliefs of KairosPDX in all approaches and instruction
• Every child is uniquely capable, innately curious and inherently creative
• Character and agency are essential to achievement and are developed through relationship and service to others
• A multi- cultural context delivers a strong sense of self and is a requirement for participation in our global society,
• Children must be supported in the context of their families;
• Support multicultural practice, instructional and inquiry based approaches that are:
• Actively anti-racist – confronting bias in all of its forms
• Education for social justice – acknowledging history and studying the present to make informed decisions regarding a more equitable future,
• Pervasive – Examining practices in all levels of school culture and organization,
• Personal –Beginning with the necessary consideration of self as a cultural being,
• Critical Pedagogy – Pursuing multiple perspectives, anticipating contradictions and challenging assumptions,
• Empowering – Providing children the ego strength to challenge racist societal views,
• Helping children think deeply about themselves and others.

Core Position Responsibilities:

• Work with a team of colleagues to further the academic mission of the school;
• Discipline students in a fair and consistent manner, using clear routines and expectations as well as school approved behavior support techniques;
• Interpret, plan and work toward the goals of the learning community;
• Plan and prepare the environment for the academic and non-academic needs of children;
• Assess for progress in the academic, social, emotional and cultural domains of student development;
• Align curriculum, instructional strategies, and student assessment to the Common Core;
• Co-plan instruction with grade team towards maximizing learning for all students in the grade
• Document and maintain educational records for each child in the classroom in a way that communicates student progress over time;
• Utilize disaggregated data to inform differentiated instruction and plan for strategies to eliminate student disparities;
• Responsible for planning for and developing the growth and achievement for academic, social, emotional as well as cultural identity outcomes;
• Work with a team of colleagues and families to provide a nurturing and positive climate that encourages student responsibility, leadership and intrinsic motivation;
• Participate in continuous improvement practices including observation, reflection and collaboration;
• Communicate regularly with families concerning the school’s program and their child’s progress (including quarterly family conferences, and annual home culture visit);
• Participate in professional development to facilitate growth of each student, staff member and the organization overall;
• Attend several KairosPDX staff and family events;
• Participate in supervising students during recess and other non-class times and,
• Assist in planning and supervising field trips (both local trips and overnights).

Additional Responsibilities:

Attend several KairosPDX staff and family events

• Participate in professional development to facilitate growth of each student, staff member and the organization overall,
• Participate in continuous improvement practices including observations, reflections and collaborations
• Perform other related duties as needed and assigned.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree; Master’s, preferred
• Valid TSPC license for the grade level(s) taught
• Documentation of “Highly Qualified Teacher Status” under the No Child Left Behind
• Act At least one or two years of experience teaching in an elementary classroom; three to five years of experience preferred
• At least one or two years relevant experience working with children from diverse racial and cultural backgrounds
• Demonstrated ability to manage a classroom
• Training in early education and/or human development, preferred
• Experience working with children ages 5 to 11, preferred
• Training and/or experience with at least one special population such as children with disabilities, Talented and Gifted children, and/or English Language Learners, preferred.

Knowledge & Skills:

• Effective interpersonal skills in managing and interacting with diverse groups of stakeholders
• Excellent time management and organizational skills,
• Demonstrated ability to manage conflict through equitable decision-making and effective problem solving,
• Willingness to learn about and adapt to KairosPDX culture,
• Open to learning and practicing a constructivist approach to teaching and learning,
• Commitment to culturally relevant practices,
• Commitment to professional reflection and ongoing collaboration,
• Commitment to implementing teaching practices that maximize student learning,
• Share KairosPDX’s stance that excellent public education is a civil right of all children and families,
• Possess a passion for helping each child reach his or her social, emotional and academic potential including a commitment to differentiated instruction and ongoing assessment,
• Current Food Handlers Card and CPR/First Aid Certificate required (cost paid by applicant);
• Ability to pass a criminal background check.
• Experience working with diverse populations, specifically people of color; and
• Passion for KairosPDX’s mission.

Salary and Benefits:

• Salary Range: Dependent on experience, ranging from $54,571- $107,686
• Benefits include: Up to nine weeks of building closure breaks, paid sick/personal leave days, paid holidays, participation in Public Employees Retirement System (PERS), employer contribution for health insurance, professional development opportunity.

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  Not Applicable

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• Employment type

  Full-time

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  Education

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