Full Time Associate Teacher (Building Substitute Teacher)

About Aspen Academy

Aspen Academy, located in the southern metro area of Denver, Colorado, is a community committed to shaping the leaders of tomorrow through Next Generation education. The school focuses on equipping students with enduring life skills, igniting personal passions, and fostering leadership, finance, and entrepreneurial development (LiFE). With small class sizes and a strong community focus, students build lasting relationships while thriving in an inclusive and diverse environment.

The school's values are: Be Kind. Do Good. Work Hard. Make the World Better. Its mission is to edify and inspire students and educators to grow, learn, and lead, with a vision to be a national leader in innovative and transformative education.

Responsibilities

• Teach assigned classes with little to no planning responsibility.
• Maintain a well-managed classroom where 100% of students are engaged, challenged, and supported.
• Integrate technology into daily classroom teaching and student learning.
• Use prescribed instructional methodologies, including Individualized Education, Socratic Instruction, Inquiry-Based Instruction, Contextual Instruction, Differentiated Instruction, and Flexible Grouping.
• Reinforce the school’s core values and policies inside and outside the classroom.
• Fulfill assigned monitoring duties (e.g., recess, lunch duty).
• Promote and maintain supportive and positive relationships with students and families.
• Actively participate in the school’s professional development programs.
• Complete assigned administrative projects and tasks when not substituting.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree (required).
• Teaching certificate (required).
• Master’s Degree (preferred).
• 1-5 years of classroom experience in Middle and/or Lower School (K-8).
• Passion for Next Generation learning.
• Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills.
• Strong organizational skills.
• Commitment to working with a diverse student population.
• Dedication to igniting curiosity and making learning fun and challenging.
• Relentless drive to improve both in and out of school.
• Ability to model and reinforce the school’s core values, guiding philosophy, rules, and school spirit.
• Proficiency in Google tools.
• Grant permission for a criminal background check upon hire.

Meet physical demands to perform essential functions of the role. Reasonable accommodations may be made for individuals with disabilities. Essential functions include:

• Ability to work full-time, including occasional evenings and weekends, in person at the school.
• Ability to speak for long periods of time.
• Regularly stand, walk, use hands, reach with hands and arms, stoop, kneel, or crouch.
• Frequently lift and/or move up to 25 pounds; occasionally lift up to 50 pounds.

Benefits

• Health, dental, and vision insurance.
• Employer-paid telehealth services.
• Holistic Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
• 403(b) retirement plan with matching.
• Wide-ranging opportunities for professional development with a generous annual stipend.

Pay

Starting annual salary range: $47,752 - $65,628 (based on education, experience step and ladder, with a maximum of 9 years of teaching experience credit).