Job Description:

Thank you for your interest in joining the San Tan Charter school community! We are celebrating 18 years of loving and serving the Gilbert community in the beautiful Morrison Ranch area of Gilbert.

Being passionate about children’s education we offer an amazing school experience to instill a love of learning and happiness at school. Our classrooms support learning at student’s cutting edge in a nurturing, loving and supportive environment.

I am excited for you to learn about our school to see if it's a good fit for you to start or continue your school career with an amazing community of wonderful families and educators.

About San Tan Charter School:

San Tan Charter School is a Kinder-12th grade public non-profit tuition free charter school with two campuses in the East Valley within minutes of each other. The Power campus is a Junior High/High School serving students in grades 7-12 and the Recker campus is an elementary school serving students K-6 including a private Montessori preschool and K-6 tuition free Montessori classrooms. The school uses a Love and Logic® approach to classroom management that is focused on building relationships and communicating with respect. The school focuses on “Education with a Purpose,” which means the teachers encourage their students’ love of learning, which enables them to face challenges and develop critical thinking skills. San Tan Charter School also offers a championship athletics experience 5th through 12th grade and PE daily K-6. San Tan Charter School is focused on maximizing each student’s intellectual development with a Gifted program K-12, Honors/AP classes, Concurrent/Dual Enrollment classes and elective choices including career and technical education (CTE)-Culinary and Aviation as well as the opportunity for Juniors and Seniors to attend EVIT half day. For more information, please visit https://santancharterschool.com/

San Tan Charter School teachers are responsible for the facilitation of learning and achievement. Our teachers are known for a high quality of collaboration and effective communication with administration, colleagues, students, parents, and the community which ensures the success of students emotional, social and academic well-being.

Our teachers are professionals who are willing to go above and beyond the normal duties inside and outside of the classroom. Teaching being a labor of love our teachers foster happiness while inspiring excitement for learning. Tan Charter School educators are fun, positive, life-long learners, and willing to work diligently to create an individualized and engaging learning environment while helping all their students grow academically and socially.

Our school culture is one that believes in developing the whole child. We believe our students should leave STCS with a well-developed sense of character, which our i-Lead values support. We believe in treating everyone with empathy, and respect, and all staff is trained in the Love and Logic approach. Along with high expectations for academics we also incorporate physical activity and creative outlets believing a balanced approach to education is a vital component to enhancing classroom success.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Support and pay forward the vision, mission, and values of the school with consistent modeled integrity and work hard/play hard team centered work ethics.
• Provide a welcoming and safe classroom environment, inspire happiness, and establish high expectations for all students.
• Full fidelity and implementation of curriculum and planning and implementing remediation and enrichment as needed to keep each students at their cutting edge of learning and achievement.
• Analyze formative and summative assessments and plan for and communicate the plan for student success with Roadrunner Roadmaps and Parent-teacher conferences four times a year-Quarterly Parent-Teacher Conferences, including a (designated late night to accommodate parents).
• Maintains confidentiality per FERPA.
• Using data to provide individualized and small group instruction across content areas daily.
• Consistently use informal and formal assessments to monitor and adjust individual, large, and small group instruction.
• Assessing progress and achievement
• Supports an inclusion model by collaborating with all Exceptional Services and Specials teachers and parents with a shared responsibility for each of your students’ success.
• Responsible for determining instruction techniques, strategies, methods and adapt curriculum to accommodate differing learning styles.
• Planning and preparing for Learning Celebrations each semester.
• Responsible for attending weekly collaborative all staff and team meetings for idea exchange/intervention planning among teachers both at grade level and across grade levels.
• Responsible for following “Love and Logic” philosophies in your classroom management and not using any discipline and reward systems.
• Following the Montessori Philosophies such as being the guide on the side and not the sage on the stage; engaging and building relationships with your students-eating lunch and being at recess with with students daily.
• Maintain a peaceful learning environment, building relationships outside of the classroom
• Engage in continuous learning through professional reflection, active collaboration with colleagues, and applicable professional development.
• Planning and organizing educational field trips that align with your classroom learning, and encourage an interest for additional knowledge outside of the classroom.
• Attending after hour and weekend events to promote our school community with our students, families, and vendors.
• Coordinating and running at least one after school club
• Performs such other tasks and assumes such other responsibilities as needed for the organization.

Participation in the gifted community, gifted trainings, and gifted teacher expectations are responsibilities of a San Tan gifted teacher over and above the role of teacher at San Tan.

Position Requirements:

• Must hold a Class I Finger Print Clearance Card
• Bachelor’s Degree
• Passing of State Certificate Testing AEPA or other State Certification
• Arizona State Teachers Certificate (in area of assignment) or Equivalent
• Familiarity or willingness to learn differentiated instructional models

Desired Qualifications:

• Master’s Degree in specialized area
• Minimum three years of Classroom Experience

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $48,000.00 - $56,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance