At-Risk Master Teacher

Required Certificates and Licenses: Valid Texas Teaching Certification Required

Residency Requirements: This position is virtual and strongly prefer residents of Texas. May consider residents of surrounding states (NM, OK, AK or LA). This position could include travel up to 20% of the time for face-to-face professional development, student testing, and/or as required by the school.

The At-Risk Master Teacher provides supplementary instructional support to the schools in order to meet Texas Compensatory Education requirements including reducing any disparity in performance on assessment instruments administered under Texas Education Code (TEC), Subchapter B, Chapter 39, or disparity in the rates of high school completion between students at risk of dropping out of school and all other students

K12, a Stride Company, believes in Education for ANYONE. We provide families an online option for a high-quality, personalized education experience. Students can thrive, find their passion, and learn in an environment that encourages discovery at their own pace. In support of this, we are committed to creating and maintaining a culture of inclusion and diversity where our employees are passionate about serving students and families, treat one another and customers with respect, challenge each other to innovate and always strive to do better.

The mission of Stride K12 Texas partner schools, (TXSS) is to provide an exemplary individualized and engaging educational experience for students by incorporating school and community/family partnerships coupled with a rigorous curriculum along with a data-driven and student-centered instructional model. Student success will be measured by valid and reliable assessment data, parent and student satisfaction, and continued institutional growth within the academic community. Join us!

Passionate Educators are needed at the Stride K12 Texas partner school, (TXSS). We want you to be a part of our talented team!

This is a full-time position. Ability to work independently, typically 40+ hours per week is required. Ability to maintain a professional home office without distraction during workday, typically 9-5 (or 8-4) or as defined by the school.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:   Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential duties.

• Review school data to identify learning trends, prioritize areas of support, and create a plan to address learning gaps.
• Create exemplar model lesson libraries, prioritizing needs based on school data.
• Regularly attend teacher professional learning communities (PLC) to address/gather specific departmental needs.
• Create professional development recordings to demonstrate quality lesson facilitation in a virtual setting.
• Model teaching through observation, team teaching, as needed from the Instructional Coaching team for material delivery/content expertise.
• Develop teachers to more effectively work through the planning, instruction, assessment, analysis, and adjustment loop; and working with campus leadership on calibration and understanding what learning looks like in a variety of settings.

This position may perform other duties as assigned in alignment with the SCE program. Duties this position may not perform:

• Duties related to testing, such as test administration.
• Activities related to formal teacher evaluations, including TTESS-related activities.
• Activities undertaken in the role of parent liaison, community liaison, truant officer, safety officer, or court liaison required by TEC, 37.

Supervisory Responsibilities: This position has no formal supervisory responsibilities.

MINIMUM REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:   

• Bachelor’s degree in education or related field AND
• Five (5) years of successful teaching experience including experience as a virtual teacher OR
• Equivalent combination of education and experience

Certificates and Licenses: Valid appropriate state certification.

OTHER REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS: 

• Outstanding presentation and facilitation skills
• Proven ability in using student-level data to guide instructional decisions
• Strong pedagogical knowledge and content expertise
• Highly effective interpersonal skills (written and oral communication, problem-solving, conflict management, collaboration) to share research-based instructional approaches and provide advice, mentoring, and coaching to teachers and administrators
• Strong critical thinking skills
• Strong attention to details, organizational and planning skills
• Flexibility and adaptability
• Highly proficient in Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.).
• Ability to quickly master any necessary web and web-based applications
• Ability to travel 20% of the time
• Ability to clear required background check

WORK ENVIRONMENT:  The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• This position is virtual.