Part Time Creative Movement & Mind-Body Practice Instructor 2026 - 2027

Scheduled specifically for one day per week (currently Tuesdays), this role focuses on movement exploration for young children (K-4th Grade), guiding them to build confidence in their own bodies and learn to collaborate with peers. Grounded in ideas grown and inspired at Aspen Academy, the program provides a safe environment for students to practice self-awareness and connection. While drawing inspiration from yoga, ballet, and pilates, this role emphasizes non-dance mind-body practices and mindful movement—utilizing school-provided curriculum.

Schedule

• Part-time: Tuesdays, 8:00 AM – 2:00 PM, for the school year
• Onsite

Pay

Starting rate: $32.93 to $49.32 per hour (based on education and experience step ladder, with a maximum of 9 years teaching experience credit).

About Aspen Academy

Aspen Academy, located in the southern metro area of Denver, Colorado, is a community committed to shaping the leaders of tomorrow. Our dedication to Next Generation education equips students with enduring life skills for future success. Learning is a way to ignite the personal passions and interests of each student. Our unique Leadership, Finance, and Entrepreneurial Development (LiFE) program prepares students for life. Students thrive through small class sizes, a community focus, and performance-based courses in our Essentials Program, which builds leadership, confidence, and pride. We integrate world language, performing arts, visual arts, technology, and fitness alongside academic content to create a holistic growth environment where students discover their individual passions and gifts.

Our values: Be Kind. Do Good. Work Hard. Make the World Better.

Our mission: We edify and inspire students and educators to grow, learn, and lead.

Our vision: We are a national leader in innovative and transformative education.

Responsibilities

Academic Teaching

• Provide effective, engaging, and well-planned instruction in the assigned domain.
• Exhibit mastery and enthusiasm for the assigned subjects and classes.
• Plan and implement an appropriately focused and balanced curriculum that adheres to the school’s standards and embraces a multidisciplinary approach.
• Prepare and develop dynamic and engaging activities, materials, and lessons to meet learning objectives.
• Provide timely end-of-day documentation and feedback to the Lead Instructor (e.g., updates on student dynamics, seating/pairing adjustments, and progress on rotation unit timelines).
• Facilitate movement exploration activities that empower young children to develop self-confidence in their bodies while fostering teamwork and collaboration with peers.
• Deliver a mind-body curriculum rooted in the principles of mindful movement, pilates, and ballet using fully provided curriculum materials.
• Create and sustain a classroom environment where every student is fully engaged, appropriately challenged, and adequately supported, adhering to “Love and Logic Principles.”
• Use school-prescribed instructional methodologies, including Differentiated Instruction, Socratic Instruction, Inquiry-Based Instruction, Knowledge-Building Instruction, and Flexible Grouping based on student interest and benchmark assessments.
• Be results-focused, accept accountability for outcomes, take initiative, and identify and overcome obstacles.
• Demonstrate an entrepreneurial spirit by seeking and analyzing relevant data, making sound decisions, acting on opportunities, taking calculated risks, and practicing continuous process improvement.
• Model, uphold, and champion the highest standards of personal and professional conduct in alignment with the LiFE (Leadership, Finance, and Entrepreneurship) program.

Curriculum and Assessment

• Implement a variety of assessments that measure progress toward standards, including universal school and/or domain-wide assessments.
• Use assessment data to refine curriculum and instructional practices to meet the school’s performance standards.
• Use quantitative and qualitative data to inform and adjust instruction to ensure high-quality differentiated instruction.

School Life

• Actively contribute to and champion a culture committed to diversity, inclusion, and cultural competency through continuous personal and professional growth, inclusive practices, and integration of diverse perspectives in pedagogical approaches.
• Fulfill assigned monitoring duties (e.g., recess, lunch duty).
• Lead and/or participate in school events during and occasionally after school hours (e.g., Back to School Night, Community Picnic, Education Events).
• Promote and maintain positive and productive relationships with the school community, including team members, students, and families.

Professional Development

• Regularly devote time and energy to grow in the craft of effective teaching.
• Embrace coachability and a mindset of continuous growth.
• Be open to and enthusiastic about adopting innovative teaching approaches and feedback from colleagues and administration.
• Collaborate and lead in the school’s professional development programs.
• Participate actively in faculty and team meetings and professional learning communities.

• Perform other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Demonstrated excellence in cultivating students’ curiosity, engagement, growth, and performance in academic, intellectual, social, and emotional domains.
• Experience facilitating early childhood movement exploration, mind-body practices, or somatic learning environments.
• Ability to create safe, inclusive spaces that promote somatic confidence, mindfulness, and peer collaboration.
• Strong written and oral communication skills.
• Strong time, organization, and project management skills.
• Social and emotional intelligence.
• Cultural competency.
• Proficiency with Google tools and learning management systems.
• Grant permission for a credit check and criminal background check.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree (required). Master’s Degree (preferred).
• Teaching certification or license (preferred).
• 3-5 years of teaching experience.
• Evidence of content expertise in movement instruction, somatic practices, children’s mindfulness, or mind-body disciplines (e.g., foundations in yoga, pilates, or ballet).
• Evidence of continuing professional development.
• Grant permission for a criminal background check upon hire.
• Meet physical demands to perform essential functions of the role, with reasonable accommodations available for individuals with disabilities:
  • Ability to work full-time, including occasional evenings and weekends; work in person in the school building; speak for long periods of time.
  • Regularly required to 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.