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Posted: 04-Mar-26
Location: El Cerrito, California
Type: Full Time
Salary: Competitive
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Prospect Sierra School
Fourth Grade Lead Teacher
2026-2027 School Year
Overview of School:
Prospect Sierra is an independent, coed TK–8 school located on two campuses in El Cerrito, California, serving 450 students. Prospect Sierra gives students the tools to build a better world by integrating rigorous academics with a deep understanding of human emotions. Every day our exceptional teachers connect students' academic experiences to ethics, empathy, and social and emotional intelligence. The result is deeper intellectual engagement, greater self-knowledge, and compassionate relationships. Prospect Sierra students develop the courage to become more than great students, but great people. Please visit our website, www.prospectsierra.org, for more information.
Overview of Position:
This is a full-time teaching position for a Fourth Grade Lead Teacher with the contract beginning July 1 and with a start date of August 17, 2026 for the 2026-27 school year and beyond. The successful candidate will report to the Elementary School Division Head and be responsible for teaching humanities, math, and reading and writing workshops.
Responsibilities:
- Support the social and emotional development of students.
- Collaborate weekly with teaching teams, to ensure consistency between classes.
- Uphold a strong commitment to a balanced literacy approach, which includes the use of the Being a Reader and Being a Writer curriculum.
- Maintain our math program by following the Bridges and Number Corner curriculum currently in place.
- Coordinate buddy experiences, finding creative ways to connect across groups both at the elementary and middle school campuses.
- Collaborate with specialist teachers regarding the individual behavioral and learning needs of specific students.
- Collaborate weekly with the grade-level learning specialist and the school counselor to determine pull-out and push-in support needs for students.
- Maintain regular communication and contact with parents, including regular digital newsletters.
- Assess students regularly through unit assessments, reading assessments, projects, and class work.
- Write narrative reports two times annually for all students.
- Participate in the one night, grade level overnight study trip.
Required Qualifications
- Appreciation for and desire to work with fourth grade students
- Authentic love of helping students excel in their learning
- Knowledge of the essential role social-emotional literacy plays in the workplace and interest in the application of SEL within the educational setting
- Knowledge of identity safe and anti-bias educational practices
- Ability to create an inclusive classroom community that allows for a multitude of perspectives to be heard and respected
- Ability to take initiative, work passionately and joyfully, and collaborate effectively with diverse constituencies
- Willingness to be a team player, show initiative, and take on leadership roles as needed
- A passionate commitment to creating an innovative, joyful environment for students
- Bachelor of Arts or Science degree and/or professional coursework or certification, indicating training applicable to the responsibilities of the position
In addition to the required qualifications, desirable additional skills include:
- Strong communication skills, both written and verbal
- Flexibility
- Excellent interpersonal skills
- Organizational skills and the ability to multitask
- Proficiency in essential digital tools, including Google Workspace (Docs, Sheets, Slides, Drive), email, and Slack, and a willingness to learn school specific software
- Excellent interpersonal skills
- Knowledge of educational technology to support teaching and learning
- Understanding of differentiated learning techniques
- A nuanced understanding of DEI/social justice knowledge from a personal or programmatic perspective
- Willingness to be flexible
Schoolwide Duties:
- Participation in all staff, division, committee, department, and grade-level team meetings
- Support and participate in schoolwide events such as: Panther Picnic, All Together Now, Walkathon etc. - as designated by supervisor
- Support the overall day-to-day needs of the division with weekly duties, such as yard supervision and curbside dismissal support
- Engage schoolwide professional development structures and processes, including but not limited to: Equity and Inclusion work, pedagogical best practices, technological skill development, etc.
- Follow Prospect Sierra’s Essential Expectations
- Perform other duties as may be requested by the Head of School and ES Division Head.
Salary
The salary is competitive. Benefits included. Our 2026-27 salary schedule can be found here.
How to Apply
Send a résumé (including contact information for three references) and one-page cover letter to:
Jessica Walker, Elementary School Division Head
Email: tapscottjobs@prospectsierra.org (Please put “4th Grade Elementary Lead Teacher” in the subject line)
Prospect Sierra School is an equal opportunity employer. Our community is diverse in many ways, inclusive of race/ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender spectrum, age, ability, and more. We welcome and value the same in our faculty and staff.