Arizona Charter Academy Hiring for 1st Grade Teacher 22/23 Job at Surprise, AZ Full Time

This position is for the 2022-23 school year.

At ACA, our 1st Grade Teachers have the chance to make a real and lasting impact on their students’ education. We are a Title 1 public charter school that is student focused and passionate about achievement and student growth.

At ACA, student success starts with a supported teacher.

• You’ll have weekly opportunities to work with other 1st grade and content area teachers.

• You’ll meet weekly with your 1:1 instructional coach to review lesson plans, strategies, and student data to drive academic growth.

Helping you grow as a professional: Student growth begins with teacher growth and ACA provides an interactive, collaborative experience to grow you as a professional through differentiated professional development opportunities uniquely tailored to where you are at in your teaching career.

• Along with your supervisor and 1:1 coach, you will create a professional growth plan to further develop you as a professional and enable you to help every student progress.

• Our New Teacher Support Program offers a weeklong workshop to set you up for success before school begins. Additional professional development is offered weekly to help new teachers with strategies to be successful through their schoolyear.

Here’s what we’re looking for: Our most successful teachers build positive and authentic relationships with their students and create a sense of class community. Communication flows between you, your students, and their parents to ensure everyone works as a team on student growth. High expectations and understanding student data are the backbone of the ACA classroom. A growth mindset accompanies our best teachers as they continually strive for data driven results. Is this you?

About our community culture: ACA is committed to building meaningful relationships with employees, students, parents, and the community – we are making an impact!

• A+ School of Excellence

• Voted Top Companies to Work For

• Most Admired Companies

• 100 Best Arizona Companies in 2022

• The coveted “Best of Heart” award through Best Companies AZ

Compensation

ACA is proud to offer a competitive salary and robust benefit package including 100% paid health and dental PPO Plans along with life insurance. We also offer an Employee Assistance Program (EAP) which includes free counseling and assistance with legal forms. Our personal benefit concierge assists in finding doctors, setting up appointments and troubleshooting any claim issues.

Additional benefits include:

• Free after school care for school aged children

• We match over 12% of your salary for the Arizona State Retirement plan which also includes long-term disability.

• Free TeleDoc appointments

We’re also happy to offer short-term disability, additional life insurance, vision, 401(a) and 457(b) retirement plans

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree is required
• Valid State Certification is helpful but not required, though all candidates must meet criteria to be “highly qualified
• Belief in and alignment with Arizona Charter Academy’s core beliefs and educational philosophy is non-negotiable

Job Types: Full-time, Contract

Pay: $41,000.00 – $46,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Dental insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Health insurance
• Health savings account
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Retirement plan
• Vision insurance

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift

Supplemental Pay:

• Bonus pay

Experience:

• Teaching: 1 year (Preferred)

Work Location: One location