Start Date: July 31st, 2025, for the 2025-2026 School Year

Position Type: Full-time, 169-174 days per year

Location: McKinley Elementary School

Salary: Pay for this position is determined by the 169-Day Licensed Salary Schedule and based on education and experience. Salary Range $44,739-$84,342 plus an additional $5000 Stipend

Benefits: Health insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, life insurance, PERA retirement, paid time off, and other optional benefit elections. Longevity and professional development incentives. Preschool options are available for employees with children. Paid Parental Leave. College reimbursements for staff attending preschool courses.

QUALIFICATIONS:

Purpose of the Job:
To lead a collaborative educator team supporting a shared roster of students through high-quality instruction, coaching, and continuous improvement. The team made up of licensed teachers, paraeducators, aspiring teachers, specialists, and/or community educators, works together using distributed expertise and student learning data to support learners across shared instructional spaces. This model emphasizes deeper, more personalized learning experiences for all students.

The Lead Teacher holds primary responsibility for instructional planning and delivery, while also supporting team operations, student success, and team member development. This includes modeling effective instructional practices, leading co-planning, mentoring team members, and maintaining strong communication with families. The Lead Teacher ensures the team functions at a high level to serve all students by strength and need.

Minimum Requirements:

Education: Bachelor Degree

Experience: 5 years or more preferred

Licenses/Certificates: Valid Colorado Teaching License with elementary (K-6) endorsement, Eligible of “Read Act” designation on CDE license

Other Criteria:

Criminal background check required for hire.
Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
Demonstrated ability to collaborate within a professional learning community (PLC).
Ability to work cooperatively in a school atmosphere with staff members, students and the public.
Ability to effectively read, write, speak and listen to comply with directions and instructions to complete tasks and establish priorities.
Integrity, trust and work ethic to be able to work with little supervision.
Competent understanding of technology to perform the job.
Must pass pre-employment physical.
Ability to perform light lifting and moving of product (up to 50lbs).
Implements appropriate physical and technical safeguards to protect the confidentiality, integrity and availability of district data.
Maintains good security practices with passwords and accounts to the various district systems and applications.
Reports actual or suspected breaches in the confidentiality, integrity or availability of district data to appropriate district personnel.
Follows all board policies for acceptable use of district technology.
Model the District's Mission and Belief Statements.
Other duties as assigned.

Essential Duties of the Job: (To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily with or without a reasonable accommodation.)

Serve as the instructional lead for a shared team of educators supporting a group of students.
Lead instructional planning, delivery, assessment, and grading in collaboration with the team.
Use student data and evidence of learning to inform instructional decisions and flexible grouping.
Model and coach effective teaching practices for instructional support staff.
Provide guidance, mentoring, and feedback to team members including Instructional Assistants and Facilitators.
Facilitate team meetings focused on planning, reflection, and continuous improvement.
Foster a collaborative team culture grounded in high expectations for students and shared responsibility for learning.
Serve as the primary point of contact for family communication and support transparent, ongoing dialogue.
Contribute to innovation and instructional design that improves student outcomes.
Participate in professional learning focused on instructional leadership, data use, and the PLC process.
Flexibility for a new program and understanding that this position will need a visionary leader.
Other duties as assigned.

Skills, Knowledge, Equipment & Other:

Strong collaboration and coaching skills.
Understanding of formative assessment practices.
Willingness to innovate within a team structure.
Familiarity with Inquiry-Based Instruction.
Proficiency in the Science of Reading.
Experience with data-informed instruction and the PLC process.

Supervisory Responsibilities: Instructional Assistants / Facilitators as assigned.

Requirements for Essential Functions of the Job: (The physical demands, work environment factors, and mental functions 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.)

Physical Demands: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel. The employee frequently is required to stand, walk, talk, or hear. The employee is occasionally required to sit; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; feel or smell. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds from floor to waist, waist to overhead, waist to floor and overhead to floor. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.

Work Environment: While performing the duties of this job, the employee must be able to work in a school setting. Travel from site to site may occasionally; be exposed to wet and/or humid conditions; outdoor weather conditions. The noise level in the work environment ranges is generally quiet with occasional increase when working events or with equipment. Must be able to work in person.

Mental Functions: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to analyze and compute. Frequently required to compare, communicate, coordinate, instruct, evaluate, use interpersonal skills and compile. Occasionally required to copy, synthesize and negotiate.

This description is not intended, and should not be construed, to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, skills, efforts, or working conditions associated with this job. It is intended to be an accurate reflection of the principal job elements essential for making compensation decisions. This job description is subject to change in accordance with the needs of the District.

TO APPLY:

A district application must be completed online at: https://jobs.redroverk12.com/org/canoncityschools

Anticipated Timeline for Hiring: Open until filled
Screening of Applications: Wednesday, April 2, 2025
Applications must be complete and submitted to be considered

Inquiries may be made to Jamie Davis, Director of Human Resources, 101 North 14th Street, Cañon City, CO, 81212, 719-276-5700.

Nondiscrimination/Equal Opportunity

In compliance with Titles VI; VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967, the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008, and Colorado law, School District Fremont RE-1 does not unlawfully discriminate on the basis of race, color, sex, religion, national origin, ancestry, creed, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender expression, gender identity, pregnancy, genetic information, disability or need for special education services in admissions, access to, treatment, or employment in educational programs or activities which it operates.

School District Fremont RE-1 has established complaint procedures for students, parents, employees, and members of the public. Complaints may be filed verbally, in writing, or anonymously. If you wish to file a complaint using the district complaint form, please submit it to: Ms. Jamie Davis, Director of Human Resources, Title IX, Section 504, and Americans with Disabilities Act Coordinator, 101 North 14th Street, Cañon City, Colorado 81212 – Telephone: (719)276-5700, Email:jamie.davis@canoncityschools.org.

Team Based Lead Teacher