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Date Posted 7/14/2025 Contact Mauricio AmaralNumber of Openings 1 Salary Pay Range
58000 - 100000 Annually Add'l Salary Info From $58,000.00 to $100,000.00 per year Length of Work Year 190 days Employment Type Full Time Job Description / Essential Elements: Print The Opportunity CTE Teacher: 2D/Graphic Design Teacher (23-24SY) — Competencies and Qualifications
Lighthouse Community Public Schools is looking for a talented High School CTE Teacher to teach 2D/Graphic Design to join our team who is relentlessly committed to ensuring that traditionally underserved students of color achieve our mission of completing college, securing a career of choice, and becoming lifelong changemakers in their communities. LCPS teachers believe that this important mission is not only attainable; it is essential to transforming our Oakland community. If you are inspired by our mission and vision and want to be a changemaker in students’ lives here in Oakland, then please apply and join us!
You will embody the following Core Competencies to be an effective change-agent:
Be an anti-racist educator committed to educational justice as evidenced by respectful and supportive relationships, well-planned instruction, rigorous daily assessment, and daily opportunities for students to revise and refine their work.
Facilitate cognitively engaging student-centered learning.
Demonstrate a keen belief and ability to create, collect and analyze achievement data to drive student learning and outcomes for all students
Be a strong community builder and team collaborator
Model and foster a growth mindset with agency, persistence, and flexibility
Be a collaborative and responsible professional educator
Your responsibilities will include:
INSTRUCTIONAL VISION
Specific teaching responsibilities of this role include:
Teaching multiple courses of 2D Design and Graphic Design that reflect our student-centered, hands-on, maker mindset. Lighthouse Design Pathway courses are aligned to the Product Design and Innovation CTE standards. These courses include:
2D Design - An introductory course that providse all 9th grade students at Lighthouse with some fundamental skills and knowledge in visual art and design. Graphic Design - An intermediate course for 11th grade students in which students take on more complex design projects such as the creation of logos, posters, and t-shirts.Pathway Development: Collaborate with other Lighthouse staff to ensure that Lighthouse’s CTE Pathway follows the Linked Learning approach and fulfills our school’s annual Measue N goals.
In addition to your content courses, all LCPS teachers are assigned an advisory (known as a “Crew”) and either a guided study hall or designated ELD course depending on the need of the school and the teacher’s specific licensure.
Demonstrate culturally responsive pedagogy which gives students the skills, practice, and daily opportunity to grapple with rigorous content each day and includes unrelenting high expectations and an assets-based approach for every student.
Plan, internalize, and implement effective, grade-level standards-based curriculum, units, and lessons that are learner-driven and are modified or differentiated while maintaining rigor to provide access and results for students with IEPs, African-American and ELL students.
Ensure that students are at the center of their own learning and deeply engaged in ways that foster agency and self-direction.
Utilize, collect, and analyze rigorous, student-engaged assessments, both formative and summative, to identify and address students’ areas of growth and mastery of learning objectives. To include Altitude, ANET, MAP, as well as others.
Additional Duties, as assigned by Supervisor
CLASSROOM & SCHOOL CULTURE
Builds and maintains classroom culture that is supportive and learning-centered, undergirded by strong management, efficient procedures and systems, but most evident in the full inclusion of African-American boys, students with trauma, and students with IEPs in the social and learning community. Create positive relationships by building nurturing and affirming teacher-student, student-student, and teacher-family partnerships with a focus on building a community of risk-taking, collaborative learners.
PROFESSIONAL PRACTICES/STAFF CULTURE
Grow and contribute as an educator, colleague, learner, and community member including engaging in professional development and your own growth as a teacher in service of student learning and outcomes. Demonstrate advocacy, flexibility, autonomy, and collegiality. Demonstrates self-awareness, reflects on practice with self and others, and acts on feedback. Demonstrate flexibility, and ownership of our collective results. Administer all policies and procedures in a professional and timely manner as mandated by LCPS, and state and federal agencies (i.e., attendance records, dress code, reporting of sexual/physical abuse).
Are you ready to join an educational movement that is bigger than one classroom?
If you are excited about the opportunity to foster and facilitate a progressive growth mindset in students and engage in transformational teaching, we are actively looking for student-centered, dedicated and dynamic teachers.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:
We would love to hear from you if your educational toolbox includes the following:
B.A. or B.S. required; Master’s Degree, preferred Appropriate California Teaching Credential or commitment and ability to acquire one Deep knowledge of California Common Core State Standards, student-centered, mastery-based learning, curriculum planning, and data analysis, preferred 2+ years teaching urban youth with transformational results, preferred Familiarity navigating educational platforms Experience teaching in a progressive school model Bilingual in Spanish, preferred
SUPERVISION
This position will report to School Principal or principal’s designee
TIME COMMITMENT
This position is 1.0 FTE (full-time exempt) and follows a 10-month (190 day) work year with significant student-free days for professional learning and collaboration with colleagues and interaction with families. All new instructional staff will report on July 24, 2023.
Common Building Hours: All teachers are expected to maintain common building hours for their school site. These may be subject to change for the 2023-24SY:
Lighthouse Campus Building Hours: 8:00 - 4:00 pm M, Tu, Th, Fri and 8:00-5:00 on Wednesdays for Professional Development.
OUR COMPENSATION PACKAGE
At Lighthouse Community Public Schools we take good care of our employees. We provide a competitive compensation and benefits package, including a competitive salary and generous health and retirement benefits (100% employee health coverage/50% for dependents; 8% employer-matching for retirement program; medical and dependent FSA).
Requirements / Qualifications
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS: We would love to hear from you if your educational toolbox includes the following: B.A. or B.S. required; Master’s Degree, preferred Appropriate California Teaching Credential or commitment and ability to acquire one Deep knowledge of California Common Core State Standards, student-centered, mastery-based learning, curriculum planning, and data analysis, preferred 2+ years teaching urban youth with transformational results, preferred Familiarity navigating educational platforms Experience teaching in a progressive school model Bilingual in Spanish, preferred
Requirements / QualificationsMINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS: We would love to hear from you if your educational toolbox includes the following: B.A. or B.S. required; Master’s Degree, preferred Appropriate California Teaching Credential or commitment and ability to acquire one Deep knowledge of California Common Core State Standards, student-centered, mastery-based learning, curriculum planning, and data analysis, preferred 2+ years teaching urban youth with transformational results, preferred Familiarity navigating educational platforms Experience teaching in a progressive school model Bilingual in Spanish, preferred
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