Job Description:
Role Overview
Teachers are our most critical resource. They will create a culture reflective of our mission and nurture students reflective of our graduate aims (self-directed learners, powerful communicators, effective collaborators, compassionate changemakers). Teachers at St. Louis Voices Academy must embrace their own stories to support students who are compelling storytellers. St. Louis Voices Academy teachers are results-driven educators with experience in and commitment to standards-based curricula and the use of data and assessments to drive instructional decisions. Our teachers assume personal responsibility for the academic progress of all students through an engaging instructional model that enables students to flourish academically and personally. We seek teachers who are committed to continuously improving curriculum and instruction in a supported, professional learning environment.

Mission Alignment
Mission-aligned members of the St. Louis Voices Academy community share the following dispositions: 

• Dedication to the school’s mission, vision, values, and graduate outcomes; 
• Understanding that relationships are essential to working with students who have experienced the effects of poverty or trauma; 
• Belief that our students have strengths and assets and build on these strengths in their work;
• A positive attitude and a solution-based approach to challenges in the workplace;
• Commitment to restorative justice as a means of addressing conflicts or challenges in the community, whether between students, staff members, or students and staff members;
• Commitment to inclusive excellence, including a willingness to engage in conversations about privilege, power, equity, and diversity and to invest time in community-building and professional development based on inclusive excellence;
• Active participants in a supportive and demanding professional community that fosters respect, trust, honesty, risk-taking, open-mindedness, flexibility, collaboration, and continuous improvement. 

Responsibilities
Instruction

• Deliver high-quality instruction utilizing St. Louis Voices Academy’s pedagogical approaches: culturally responsive teaching, cooperative learning, inquiry-based learning, individualized learning, and student presentation
• Teach students to tell their stories by telling your own stories

Data Analysis

• Meet weekly with instructional leaders to analyze and respond to trends in student work samples and assessments
• Learn and implement strategies to differentiate instruction for all learners in your classroom

School Culture

• Build positive relationships with students to ensure they feel seen, loved, and heard
• Partner with students’ families to ensure appropriate resources are available to support their children’s learning needs
• Engage in practice-based professional development, mentorship, and coaching sessions
• Support morning arrival, lunch duty, student assemblies, class transitions, and after-school dismissal
• Facilitate class meetings to foster community, model our core values, and encourage student achievement

Reflection

• Reflect on practice and student data to seek ways to improve

• Internalizes feedback and acts upon it

Other
Perform all duties as assigned.