Teacher Leader
Wildflower Montessori Public Schools of Colorado
As a Teacher Leader at Wildflower Montessori Public Schools of Colorado (WMPSC), you will design, lead, and teach at a new charter school site, Meadow Rue Montessori in Aurora in partnership with other Teacher Leaders and in collaboration with the Shared Services Partner and other charter-wide support roles. Your site will be one of four interdependent micro-sites that comprise the Aurora charter school, also part of a larger charter network.
Launching and Co-Leading Your Site:
- Co-lead and co-teach a mixed age group Montessori classroom.
- Attend authorizer and state compliance trainings to ensure the school stays in charter compliance.
- Attend charter-wide professional learning events.
- Collaborate with the Special Education Teacher, Shared Services Partner, Student Services Coordinator and contracted service providers to best anticipate and serve all students’ needs.
- Ensure accurate and complete records, collaborating with the Shared Services Partner and CSI to always stay in compliance with regulations.
- Maintain a healthy, well-functioning facility that meets the needs of students and licensing requirements.
Throughout the entire journey candidates will:
- Lead with cultural humility and actively work to disrupt oppressive systems and practices.
- Utilize leadership and administrative skills to operate and communicate with transparency to all stakeholders, including WMPSC Board of Directors.
- Operate with sound decision-making principles, taking ownership over all site-based decisions made to service the site.
- Embody the vision that you’ve co-created by collaborating with your co-Teacher Leader to facilitate a safe and inclusive learning environment grounded in your community.
Minimum Qualifications
- Completion of an AMI, AMS or other MACTE accredited primary or elementary Montessori training program
- Training scholarships are available for emerging Teacher Leaders who are not already Montessori trained.
- Bachelor's degree required
- Colorado licensure encouraged but not required
Preferred Attitudes, Knowledge, and Skills
- A deep commitment to authentic Montessori - Your expertise will position you to be a highly effective facilitator of children’s learning and to extend the values of Montessori to include the adults within your school community.
- Entrepreneurial leadership - You are flexible, open-minded, see opportunity in obstacles, and are energized by using creativity and resourcefulness to anticipate challenges and create solutions to problems.
- Commitment to serving diverse and multifaceted communities - You are eager to increase access to Montessori to racially and socioeconomically diverse communities and are deeply committed to supporting the development of intersectional communities. You understand the role race, along with ethnicity, gender/gender identity and sexual orientation, play in contributing to persistent inequity. You have engaged in culturally responsive and anti-racist practices with the students and families you serve.
- Generosity of spirit - You build authentic relationships in diverse settings, practice gratitude, and lead with love. You seek advice openly and are comfortable working in a non-hierarchical organization.
- Willingness to work hard - You have the aptitude, stamina, time, and appetite to raise yourself to the challenge of starting and leading your own school. You will not be alone, but you will be busy.
- A desire to learn and grow - You are eager to stretch beyond your current experience, to develop new skills and expertise and to explore your purpose and potential more deeply.