School Name: Cristo Rey High School
Location: 1228 S 38th St, San Diego, CA 92113
Reports to: Principal
Employment Type: Full Time
FLSA Status: Exempt
Pay Rate: $56,000 - $80,000 (Depending on Experience)

Are you hard-working and passionate about helping all students graduate from high school and college? Are you inspired by the transformative capacity of Catholic education? Are you courageous, energetic, optimistic, and quick to recognize the good in every student? Are you an empathetic listener who builds trusting relationships with students, parents & families, and colleagues? Are you committed to growth, interested in implementing feedback to continuously improve? Are you organized and efficient, able to fulfill varied responsibilities in a fast-paced environment?

If so, Cristo Rey San Diego High School needs your talent to enrich our supportive, college-bound learning community, serve families who embrace bold dreams for their children, and inspire students to lead through service to others.

About the School

Cristo Rey San Diego High School is the 37th school in a growing national network of Catholic high schools recognized for transforming Catholic education through a unique integration of rigorous academics, professional experience, and spiritual formation. Cristo Rey’s innovative model calls for our students to attend class four days per week and work in a professional setting five days per month through our Corporate Work Study Program (CWSP). While many of our students will enter high school below grade-level academically, it is the collective mission of our staff to ensure that our students gain admission to—and ultimately graduate from—college. In pursuit of that goal, Cristo Rey has a longer school day and an extended academic year, and our teachers innovate, plan, reflect, and practice so that they maximize their impact in the classroom.

Summary

As part of Cristo Rey’s motivated and collaborative teaching staff, you will educate students in mind and spirit. Through engaging, data-informed instruction that effectively incorporates technology to enhance learning, you will ensure all students are academically prepared for college, reflective about their learning in both the classroom and the Corporate Work Study Program and embody a growth mindset approach to their learning. Your commitment to excellence will help form a student body distinguished by breakthrough achievement gains, a passion for justice, and ability to perform in the professional world. In the Catholic tradition, you will create opportunities for students to act, reflect, and grow as they become persons for others. Ultimately, by giving generously of yourself, your gifts, and your time, you will help grow a school that serves its students’ diverse needs and cultivates their many talents.

Teaching Responsibilities

• Execute rigorous, standards-driven, high-impact, culturally relevant lessons through effective teaching practices that accelerate student content growth as well as faith and character development.
• Use formative and summative assessments of and response to student proficiency of grade level content.
• Provide frequent opportunities for students to read, write, speak and collaborate with peers to demonstrate understanding of new content.
• Support multilingual learners through frequent opportunities to read, write, speak about and listen to challenging texts that encourage collaboration.
• Regularly collect and analyze data to inform and adjust instruction
• Skillfully use technology to accomplish learning goals and increase student engagement
• Provide targeted one-on-one and small-group tutoring to students in class, during after-school learning support, and via other instructional support opportunities
• Evaluate students' academic and social growth, keep appropriate records, frequently updating the gradebook in accordance with our communities grading policies
• Actively build an understanding of each student as an individual in the spirit of cura personalis (care for the whole person)
• Forge strong relationships with students and parents and communicate frequently with families to increase the investment and partnership that will enable students to flourish
• Consistently uphold school-wide discipline practices and routines as well as norms for student behavior
• Maintain an organized and vibrant classroom environment that supports student learning and conveys warmth, order, and a feeling of welcome
• Establish a positive classroom culture and maintain strong classroom management to maximize instructional time
• Prioritize and manage your time effectively to create a healthy work/life balance while also actively engaging in the non-student facing responsibilities present in a school with a culture of continuous learning
• Reflect on your own practice and collaboratively work to continuously improve your instruction
• Collaborate with colleagues to improve instructional practices throughout the school and share best practices
• Actively participate in ongoing professional development

Professional Presence

• Model values consistent with Catholic education and service to others
• Approach teaching through a developmental lens, and enthusiastically participate in professional development; seek and apply feedback from the instructional leadership and from colleagues; demonstrate drive and independence in accessing resources to further your own improvement
• Contribute fully, intentionally, and constructively to the professional learning community in a range of ways: analyze student work and performance data, identify students in need of additional support, problem-solve unanticipated challenges that arise within the school
• Collaborate with peers with integrity, humility, commitment, humor, and joy to ensure the foundation of trust that will enable the team to accomplish its ambitious goals
• Engage students and parents with respect, fairness, and empathy to enable full partnership with the school

Student Support and Contribution to School

• Actively monitor transitions, meals, and/or other common times to ensure a calm and orderly environment; chaperone and moderate school events, including trips and dances
• Be open to running a student club and enrichment period; assist advisees through their journey at Cristo Rey, and serve as a point of contact for advisees’ parents
• Seek opportunities to participate on committees, plan and attend school-wide events, and otherwise contribute to the life of the school.

Specific Obligations of a Cristo Rey San Diego High School Teacher

• A full-time teaching position is defined as being responsible for a homeroom period, five instructional periods or its equivalent, two preparation periods, a lunch period, academic interventions (Advisory/What I Need (WIN)/after school tutoring), and other duties, including the attendance of professional learning team meetings to support the academic growth of students.
• Teach the classes identified by CRSDHS each quarter/semester, which may include an alternate comparable schedule or class assigned in areas that s/he is qualified to instruct when CRSDHS determines this is necessary, in its sole discretion
• Perform as a substitute teacher as needed. After substitute teaching 12 class periods (not including Homeroom, Advisory, or Finals proctoring), an additional $25/per class period will be paid.
• Support and promote the success of the Corporate Work Study Program (CWSP) through honoring student CWSP commitments and collaborating with CWSP with curricular goals where necessary
• Participate in Cristo Rey Network workshops and teacher training as available and/or needed
• Comply with specific supervision, coaching, evaluation, and in-service programs provided by CRSDHS which are focused on supporting the teacher in their professional development and improving student outcomes

General Administrative/ Other Responsibilities

• Return voicemail/e-mail messages in a timely manner
• Communicate regularly with parents
• Maintain a neat and orderly classroom
• Demonstrate a respectful demeanor with staff, students, and parents
• Observe utmost confidentiality regarding parent, student, staff information/conversations
• Supervise campus and other areas of duty as the role may require
• Other duties as assigned

Successful applicants will embody the mission-commitment, intellectual curiosity, openness to growth, optimism, and zest that are central to the character of our staff. In addition, they will meet or exceed the following requirements:

• Possess a Bachelor’s degree with a major or minor in the field of instruction
• Possess a cleared California Teaching Credential (preferred)
• Clear criminal background check (a clear Livescan is a condition of employment)
• Record of strong student achievement as a middle school or high school teacher (preferred)
• Proficiency using technology to advance teaching and learning
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills required
• Relentless focus on results, high level of accountability, and willingness to do “whatever it takes”
• Demonstrated commitment to the mission of the Cristo Rey Network and model
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial school environment
• A belief that all students can and will succeed in college and career
• Experience working with English learners is a plus
• Bilingual in Spanish is a plus
• Positive professional references and recommendations

Religious Qualifications

• Active, practicing Roman Catholic (preferred)
• Basic Catechetical Certification (preferred)
• Respects and understands a Catholic school philosophy

Physical Requirements

To successfully meet the needs of the students in his/her care, the teacher must:

• Spend the majority of the day standing in the classroom. While standing the teacher will frequently hold objects they are working with or demonstrating
• Sit on an occasional basis when developing lesson plans, grading, etc.
• Walk through the classroom and be able to maneuver in tight spaces between desks. Walk on both even and uneven surfaces.
• Deal with students while kneeling or squatting, stooping, or bending.
• Reach at, below, or above shoulder height with the dominant upper extremity; may require trunk or neck rotation to look back at the class.
• Assist in moving children's desks and chairs to change the layout of the classroom to influence the learning situation. It is occasionally necessary to lift and carry boxes weighing up to 25 pounds from the office to classrooms.

While performing the duties of this job the employee is regularly required to be inside the classroom. The employee is required to be mobile to, from, and within the classroom and preschool environment, as well as maneuver throughout the school facility to attend meetings, trainings, and other work-related events. The employee may be required to conduct trips to, from, and within various city and county-wide locations to attend trainings or workshops.

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Please note this position description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

Cristo Rey San Diego is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, gender, national origin, genetics, disability, age or veteran status.