Elementary School Teacher (grades K-6)

**Anticipated openings for the Academic year 2024-2025**

Oakwood is currently accepting applications for K-6 faculty positions for the 2024-2025 school year.

As an elementary school teacher you are dedicated to developing strong, supportive relationships with students who feel respected and valued. Within the classroom community, the teacher promotes appreciation and understanding of difference, fosters inclusive classrooms, and is equitable to all students.  They demonstrate strong proficiency with subject matter material and is able to provide a learning environment that is organized, well-paced, engaging, challenging, and rewarding to a diverse range of student learners.  Excellent communication skills with parents and other members of the community are essential for the support of strong partnerships that reflect a commitment to the whole of school life.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Utilizes a constructive approach to support student discovery, active learning, and collaboration
• Establishes clear and consistent standards and expectations.
• Addresses a range of learning needs through flexible and culturally responsive teaching
• Provides regular and supportive feedback.
• Employs multiple forms of assessment, including informal and formal.
• Meets regularly with a grade-level partner, content specialists, and admin to create a teaching and learning that is aligned with the school’s mission and core beliefs.
• Proactively communicates with parents and students to best serve the interests of students
• Deals with conflict in ways intended to solve problems, foster collaboration, and support growth and innovation.
• Engages in ongoing professional development to develop and elevate curriculum and pedagogy 
• Conducts parent conferences and completes progress reports, each twice a year.
• Supervises and provides for the general welfare of students during the school day, on school trips, and during school activities.
• Participates in admissions screening and prospective parent events
• Assists with the school budget process and the creation of class lists.
• Actively engages in the many facets of school life. 

JOB QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor's degree (BA or BS) from a four-year college or university
• Valid teaching credential
• 3-5 years of teaching experience
• Dedicated to Oakwood School’s Statement of Philosophy and our Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging Mission Statement, with a commitment to ongoing professional development
• Independent school experience preferred
• Appropriately credentialed
• Able to pass state and federal background checks
• Clear TB and criminal background check upon hire

Expected Compensation: $68,896 - $80,944 (plus full benefits package)

Oakwood School is a K-12 coeducational day school in North Hollywood, California that opened its doors in 1951. The school has remained faithful to its original mission ever since: to create a diverse educational environment where young people are partners with the adults who teach them and learn from them; where the best means of preparing students for the future is to immerse them in the present; where a healthy learning environment requires joy and humor as well as rigorous intensity; and where students’ intellectual and aesthetic depth – along with their capacity for empathy and moral courage – emerge out of authentic engagement with their teachers, one another, and the world around them.

Oakwood School is an equal opportunity employer committed to cultural diversity in our workforce. With purpose, Oakwood celebrates and affirms diversity of race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, faith, family structure, socioeconomic background, age, and ability.

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