Teacher, Elementary (B/B Spanish) - Kindergarten -Las Estrellas (2026-2027)

About the role

Provide quality instruction aligned to the state and national standards. Use a variety of assessment strategies - diagnostic, formative and summative, to inform instructional decisions and increase student self-management of learning. Rigorous inquiry-based learning tasks engage students in deep content of the discipline as well as the habits of scholarship.

Responsibilities

• Teach students the required curricula using strategies that foster thinking, reasoning and problem solving.
• Collaborate with peers to develop, plan and implement best practices based on the needs/abilities of the students.
• Assess students' developmental, cognitive and social needs and provide developmentally appropriate instruction to meet those needs.
• Create lessons and learning environments that are safe, respectful and interesting as well as multicultural/gender and ability fair/developmentally appropriate.
• Collaborate and communicate regularly with families in making educational decisions and use family and community resources to support learning.
• Acquire knowledge of the goals of the Minneapolis Public School District Improvement Agenda and site/school goals.
• Work to support and achieve those goals.

Requirements

Have a working knowledge of and implement the Minnesota State Standards and the District Graduation Requirements; knowledge of the subject matter, classroom management techniques, current researched best practices and strategies, as well as students' learning styles and needs, both academic and affective.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree from an accredited university.
• Prior successful experience student teaching or teaching in an urban, multicultural education setting.
• Demonstrated continued professional development through course work, research, peer collaboration and/or job-embedded staff development.
• Bilingual Spanish/English required.

Skills

Knowledge of the goals of the Minneapolis Public School District Improvement Agenda and site/school goals.

Benefits

• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Vision insurance
• Paid time off
• HSA & FSA
• Retailer plan

Pay

$53,629 - $112,065

Schedule

FTE: 1.0 FTE; this is based on full-time equivalency with 1.0 being full time.

Organizational Unit

Las Estrellas Elementary (10000093)

Site

Las Estrellas (0161)

Union

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