Elementary STEM Teacher (2024 - 2025 School Year)
Stephano Slack
- Kansas City, MO
- $46,524-72,069 per year
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Understand the significant difference between equity and equality. Every student deserves to receive what he/she needs to succeed (equity), not that every student receives the same amount of resources, instruction, attention, etc. (equality).
- Develop school environments where all students are actively and meaningfully engaged in rigorous instruction and authentic learning tasks.
- Interrupt the “school to prison pipeline” – policies and practices that are directly and indirectly pushing the most at-risk students out of school and on a pathway to the juvenile and criminal justice systems.
- Engage families as partners in meaningful ways.
- Build the capacity of diverse teams that are more reflective of our students.
- Nurture an open, collaborative, and trusting environment because the work is enormous, deeply personal, emotional and often difficult.
- Engage in on-going job-embedded professional development through co-teaching and co-planning
- Establish weekly objectives that align with the Common Core and Missouri Learning Standards.
- Facilitate “hands-on” activities and projects that allow students to learn by doing and exploring.
- Maintain a clean and organized classroom.
- Use discipline models of BIST and Love & Logic to maintain a positive, encouraging learning environment.
- Implement instructional activities that contribute to a climate where students are actively engaged in meaningful learning experiences.
- Identify, selects, and modifies instructional resources to meet the needs of the students with varying backgrounds, learning styles, and special needs.
- Assist in assessing changing curricular needs and offers plans for improvement.
- Maintain effective and efficient record keeping procedures.
- Provides a positive environment in which students are encouraged to be actively engaged in the learning process.
- Communicate effectively, both orally and in writing, with students, parents, and other professionals on a regular basis.
- Collaborate with peers to enhance the instructional environment.
- Model professional and ethical standards when dealing with students, parents, peers, and community.
- Assume responsibility for meeting his/her course and school-wide student performance goals.
- Demonstrate gains in student performance.
- Participate in meetings, training, and professional development
- Meet professional obligations through efficient work habits such as meeting deadlines, honoring schedules, coordinating, etc.
- Act in a professional and ethical manner at all times and comply with school policies, procedures, and expectations.
- Perform other duties and responsibilities as assigned by their supervisor.
- All work responsibilities are subject to having performance goals and/or targets established as part of the annual performance planning process or as the result of organizational planning.
- Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Education
- Valid Missouri teaching certificate
- The desire to continue professional development
- Excellent organization skills and an ability to coordinate multiple tasks and activities
- Demonstrated success in urban education
- The desire to continue professional development
- Excellent organization skills and an ability to coordinate multiple tasks and activities
- Outstanding verbal and written communication skills and an ability to keep multiple stakeholder groups, including parents, teachers, staff, volunteers and partners, informed of critical issues, activities and schedules.
- An ability and enthusiasm for promoting the school and its mission to a broad and diverse group of people.
- Excellent work ethic, positive attitude, flexibility and willingness to perform tasks assigned
- Demonstrates ethical behavior and confidentiality of information about students and teachers in the school environment and community.
- Must pass an extensive background check.
- All applicants must apply on the Crossroads website at: