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Job Description

School: West Denver Preparatory Charter School - SMART (opening Fall 2012)

Job Title: SPECIAL EDUCATION TEACHER

Category: Full-time

Classification: Special Education

Work Year: 2012-2013

REPORTS TO:  SCHOOL DIRECTOR

JOB GOAL: Plan, implement and evaluate a comprehensive program that teaches, maintains, and improves the West Denver Prep SMART college preparatory culture at the campus level.  Provide a support program that will maximize personal growth and development and assist all scholars in achieving optimal academic success. 

OVERVIEW:  

Vision

In preparing our scholars for graduation from college, West Denver Prep SMART provides a challenging and relevant liberal arts educational community that fosters disciplined inquiry in tandem with critical and innovative thinking.  To this end, West Denver Prep SMART promotes a foundational mastery and appreciation of the hard sciences, advanced mathematical reasoning and problem solving, as well as the production of exemplary artifacts from the humanities.  Lastly, West Denver Prep SMART honors its numerous forms of diversity, and we provide supplemental opportunities for our scholars to act upon their social agency with dignity and purpose.

Core Beliefs

As a network, West Denver Prep supports every scholar who chooses to enter through our doors by passionately committing to Three Core Beliefs:

1. Every scholar deserves a demanding, standards-based education.
2. Accountable community develops character.
3. Great educators are essential for academic excellence.

These three Core Beliefs underpin our entire school design, for college readiness is the goal of a West Denver Prep SMART education. This simple commitment drives the development of our school and the daily execution of our mission.

West Denver Prep SMART will consider candidates for the listed content area positions who:

• Are dedicated to educational success for (first-generation college-bound) urban students of color;
• Have the highest commitment to improving curriculum and instruction through collaboration, best practices, and regular assessment; exhibit a growth mindset and unconditional resolve for setting up all scholars for success;
• Are dedicated to leading a year-long SMART Advisory and SMART Seminar;
• Communicate effectively with scholars, parents, and colleagues;
• Hold a B.A./B.S. degree in subject area intended to teach preferably with demonstrated qualitative and quantifiable success in a similar educational setting;
• Speak Spanish or have experience working with bilingual students (preferred);
• Have urban teaching experience (preferred).

Apply on our website, www.westdenverprep.org
Questions? Contact Nathalie Sosa, Director of Human Capital at nsosa@westdenverprep.org

Date Posted: 2011-11-03

Closing Date: 2012-02-03

Start Date: 2011-11-03

West Denver Preparatory Charter School - SMART (opening Fall 2012) Profile