Career Center

Founded in 1994, PSCS is a small, independent middle and high school located in the Chinatown-International District of Seattle. PSCS is committed to centering intentionally excluded perspectives in curriculum and community conversations. With Critical Race Theory framing our approach, community-centered education prioritizes the perspectives of our global majority students, staff, and families while we offer students opportunities to take increasing responsibility for their own education.

Puget Sound Community School (PSCS) invites the participation of all people, welcoming students, teachers, families, and volunteers of any racial, national, religious, or ethnic origin, from all backgrounds, belief systems, orientations, and expressions. PSCS is actively working to analyze and account for power, positionality, intersectionality, and oppression. Lived experience will be considered/prioritized during the interview process.

Current Opening

The PSCS staff seeks to hire a part-time facilitator to teach sex ed, healthy relationships, self care, and health that validates a broad range of gender expressions, and multiple orientations and abilities, grounded in Critical Race Theory and Abolitionist Teaching. This educator will join a staff actively working to teach truer history and to represent perspectives that have been purposely left out of lessons in schools. We do our best to formulate positions that derive maximum contribution and meaning from every employee’s efforts.

Roles & Responsibilities

Supervised by the Director of Program, members of the PSCS Teaching Staff work closely with each other, the Administrative Team, and the school community to teach and learn from each other. Staff members are expected to remain flexible to participate in activities not directly specified below. This teacher will

? Create, build, and deliver responsive curricula that allow high school students opportunities to fully inhabit themselves as healthy, aware, knowledgeable young people who grow into empowered adults.

•   facilitate and/or co-facilitate

  • classes, field trips, Intensives, seminars, and other student offerings

  • the development of each term’s schedule

  • specialty weeks & annual school retreat

  • access to appropriate learning materials for students

•   support students when requested and as scheduling permits

•   collaborate to administer discretionary and programmatic funds

•   document student progress through the transcript process

 Contribute to PSCS community life.

•   co-create and attend

  • check-in, check-out, community hour, seminars, & retreats

  • staff meetings and in-services

  • at least three evening parent meetings/school year

  • community-wide events, open houses, etc

•   support parent/family participation in school and community events

•   model ongoing personal and professional development

  Qualifications

•   Certified teacher, certification plan desired, and/or Master’s in Education and/or equivalent experience

•   Sex Education certificate

•   Experience working with young people and facilitating classes

  Commitment to liberation through abolitionist teaching

  Salary and Benefits: This is a salaried, exempt position, calculated at .525 FTE, or 52.5%. The annual compensation for the position is $35,000* for a 10 month agreement, which is paid in twelve (12) monthly installments. Benefits include excellent employer-paid medical and dental insurance, employer-paid retirement, Paid Time Off, tuition remission, close working team.