Body-Mind Education Teacher

Description

Lick-Wilmerding High School seeks a dedicated movement, SEL, and health educator to join the Body-Mind Education Department (BME)’s ninth-grade team beginning January 2024 for a one-semester sabbatical leave. The BME department is a collaborative, supportive, student-centered team that nurtures students’ capacity to be active in their own social, emotional, and physical wellbeing, providing tools for developing self-awareness, building positive relationships with self and others, and learning to navigate the joys and challenges of their lives with perspective, wisdom, and skill.

The ideal candidate will teach four sections of Body-Mind Education (movement, SEL, and Health & Wellness sessions) to ninth-graders in collaboration with the ninth-grade team. We are looking for expertise and teaching experience in a body-mind movement discipline that combines physicality with social-emotional learning, and is compatible with our current Fitness and Fun class. Ideas of compatible disciplines include: Yoga, Pilates, Indoor Top-Rope Rock Climbing (must have or be willing to earn a safety certification), or another similar body-mind discipline.

As an institution committed to educating the whole child, we both invite and expect teaching faculty to participate fully in the academic and co-curricular life of the school. This includes, but is not limited to, furthering the mission of the school through participating in our Advisory, Public Purpose, and DEI Programs; as well as routine attendance in all curricular team meetings, department meetings, faculty meetings, and office hours to support students when needed.

Skills:

• Fierce advocacy for students and their needs

• A willingness to engage across difference with empathy and understanding

• Social and emotional acuity

• An understanding of your own identity and related positionalities

• The ability to nurture and encouragelife-long learning through joyful, authentic, and rich learning experiences

• A profound openness to feedback and improvement, modeling lifelong learning of practice as well as subject area

Qualifications

• Experience working in a health-related field, or teaching health classes, as well as experience in teaching a movement discipline

• A commitment to equity and culturally responsive, anti-racist instruction in the BME classroom, which invites all students to learn

• Possess strong interpersonal skills and the ability to collaborate effectively with others on the ninth-grade Health and Wellness and SEL curriculum

• Ability to collaborate with a team to continue developing and administering our ninth-grade and contribute to the holistic vision of the department

• Experience with student-centered teaching and learning, including differentiated instruction for students across various academic and social backgrounds

• Commitment to using multiple teaching modalities, hands-on experimentation and various forms of assessment in the classroom

• Demonstrated interest in curriculum development, innovation, and professional growth

• Excellent oral and written communication skills

Salary Range:

In the spirit of pay transparency we share the base annual salary range for a full time teacher of $72,500 to $144,700 depending on the candidate's experience and qualifications, which will be adjusted for one semester and 80% time. Pay ranges at LWHS are reasonable estimates of what the School anticipates paying for a role but are not guaranteed. If hired at LWHS, your final base salary will be determined by factors such as skills, education, experience, job level, part-time status and number of months of work per academic year. In addition to those factors, we believe in the importance of pay equity and consider internal equity with our current employees as a part of any final offer.

How to Apply:

Please apply on this site, and also send a cover letter, resume, and the names and contact information of three references, one of whom should be a direct supervisor, to Alegria Barclay. Should you have any clarifying questions or comments, please email Alegria Barclay at abarclay@lwhs.org.

Deadline to apply: Open until filled

Salary : $72,500 - $144,700