Teacher - K-5
Wyatt Academy
Wyatt Academy, the most historic K-5 charter school in Denver, serves the Cole and Whittier communities by providing a nurturing and inclusive environment. As a community-focused school, Wyatt supports students and families by offering high-quality education, promoting social-emotional well-being, and providing essential resources, such as a clothing donation program and laundry facilities. Through its core values of community, opportunity, joy, and wonder, Wyatt fosters a space where students can explore their potential, build strong connections, and thrive academically and personally.
Position Summary
A Wyatt Academy Teacher advances the mission and vision of the school through high quality classroom instruction, a data-driven and reflective approach to improvement of practice, a collaborative and collegial attitude and related behaviors aligned to the mission of the school. This person must maintain a tenacious and no excuses attitude towards improvement of students, school and self.
All Wyatt Academy teachers must demonstrate a strong commitment to work with a diverse population, including English Language Learners, and exhibit a resilient desire to improve their English language instruction.
Key Responsibilities
- Deliver rigorous standards-based engaging lessons.
- Creates lessons with differentiation strategies including second language learner sheltering, IEP accommodations, and other scaffolding.
- Models, promotes, and as situations arise, takes the opportunity to provide instruction related to the school’s code of conduct.
- Assesses the learning, achievement, and performance of each scholar and reports the results as required by school procedures.
- Develops, adjusts and enhances the Wyatt curriculum maps to meet the needs of our learners.
- Enters and maintains scholar achievement data in all school data systems.
- Communicates with families and school counselors on scholar progress.
- Maintains positive, professional working relationships with scholars.
- Maintains an orderly, positive learning environment.
- Establishes and maintains standards of scholar behavior required to provide an orderly and productive environment.
- In compliance with SB 191 50% of teacher evaluations are based on student performance data.
- Implements assigned portions of scholars’ Individualized Education Programs (IEP) and utilizes the MTSS process.
- Follows all school protocol according to the employee handbook.
- Participates in faculty committees and the sponsorship of scholar activities.
- Maintains professional competence through in-service education activities provided by the school, DPS and/or in self-selected professional growth activities.
- Works toward mutually acceptable resolution of interpersonal conflicts as they arise.
- Regularly reads, learns and appropriately applies new information into practice.
- Develops cooperation and collaborative work efforts.
- Sets development goals, in collaboration with the supervisor.
- Other duties as assigned by Wyatt Leadership Staff.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree from an accredited four-year institution.
- Pass the PLACE or PRAXIS II Test or have 24 semester credits in minor areas of assignment.
- Colorado Alternative, Provisional or Professional Teaching License with endorsements for the levels and subject areas in the major (51% or more) areas of assignment preferred.
- Completion of CDE Read Act Certification.
- Demonstrated record of achieving dramatic, measurable student achievement gains.
- Professional knowledge of content, standards and effective teaching strategies.
- Strong desire to work in a fast paced, intellectually and emotionally challenging school environment.
- Proficiency in Google Suite, Microsoft Office, Word, Excel and intermediate computer functions.
- Must successfully pass reference checks, background checks and/or licensure verification.