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New!  3/8/10 MetWest Is Hiring!!

Teacher/Advisor Position Available for 2010-2011


METWEST HIGH SCHOOL OVERVIEW

MetWest High School is a small Oakland public high school serving one hundred sixty students. In conjunction with their advisors, each student designs an individualized learning plan focused on their interests and passions. The core of each student's learning plan is an internship that gives students a deep sense of how their interests play out in the adult world, and provides an authentic environment and audience for their work. Our curriculum is designed to teach students the academic skills and habits they need to successfully complete rigorous, complex, real world project work. The work is grounded in a theoretical framework that enables our students to analyze history, literature, and the world around them in terms of institutional, interpersonal, and internalized oppression and institutional, community, and personal liberatory action.

MetWest High School is a partnership between the Oakland Unified School District and the Big Picture Learning network based in Providence, RI. For more information on Big Picture Learning, go to: www.bigpicture.org . Our own website can be found at www.metwest.org .

College-Prep through ‘Real World' Learning: While MetWest is focused on students pursuing their passions in the workplace, it is not a vocational school. Rather than training students to follow a particular career path, the internship structure is designed to foster students' intellectual development through first-hand experience, and to develop habits of initiative-taking in their education. Our students spend two days a week working with a mentor at an internship of their choosing, learning professional expectations, communicating effectively with adults from different backgrounds, and producing real world work. In addition to their integrated coursework at MetWest and their individualized, internship-based projects, many of our students take courses at Laney College. We expect all of our students to continue their education after high school, and internships, projects, and community college experiences are important opportunities for them to envision possible paths for their lives after MetWest.

Our educational philosophy

We learn best in the context of being known well. Real relationships between adults and young people are crucial to their academic development. To this end, each Advisor works with a core group of 20 students for 2 years, visiting their homes and being in regular contact with their families.

We learn best when we are pursuing our own passions and interests. We design and teach curriculum that is related to students' experience and that helps them understand the world they are living in. Whether that means investigating the environmental impacts the Port of Oakland has on the air we're breathing, or analyzing Oedipus to make sense of human motivation, we work to connect curricula to students' lives and experience. We also intentionally design all of our curriculum to support students' skill building around the investigative and analytical skills they need to design and complete increasingly complex project work.

We learn most deeply when we connect "mind" work and "hand" work. High schools in this country have traditionally separated mind learning and hand learning, yet we know that in order to learn things deeply, we need to study and try them out. Our students take this powerful opportunity when they study health and the causes of premature birth while interning at Highland Hospital, or when they study Government while interning with a member of City Council.

We work harder when our work has real meaning and value to others. At the end of each quarter, our students demonstrate their learning through formal public exhibitions. They answer questions and receive feedback from a panel of peers, teachers, parents, mentors, and community members.

Your Weekly Schedule
As an Advisor, you will teach Advisory class to your 20 students every morning. Unlike most schools' "advisory", Advisory at MetWest is an integrated academic class that includes academic units designed to teach our school-wide learning objectives and the habits of work required for academic and professional success, as well as community building activities.

The rest of MWF are spent teaching small groups or coaching students individually. You are a teacher, a project manager, and a social support person for your advisees. You will conduct regular meetings and phone conferences with your students' family members regarding their progress. You will coordinate academic and internship opportunities for students inside and outside of school for the school year and the summer.

The rest of Tuesday and Thursday are spent visiting students' internship sites all over the Bay Area, meeting with them and their mentors to plan, troubleshoot, reflect on and evaluate project work and internship work. You will coach students through the search process, from creating professional resumes, to making phone inquiries, to conducting informational interviews. You will develop, support, and monitor in-depth, multi-disciplinary projects with students and internship mentors.

Supportive professional community
The staff of MetWest work together 5 ½ hours weekly to create curriculum, reflect on our teaching and our students' learning, evaluate our results, and plan for school-wide improvement. We plan and implement multi-disciplinary curriculum in teams. We build capacity as we share best practices and teaching dilemmas in a creative, collaborative, supportive environment.

Summer work prepares us for an excellent school year, through home visits to students, student orientations, and 13 days of professional development which includes integration of new staff into our professional learning community, collaborative curriculum planning time, and whole-school focus work (based on our year-long school wide focus).

As part of the Big Picture Learning network of schools, we receive training and support from Big Picture Learning, a wealth of curriculum and technological tools, and the opportunity to collaborate with staff at other schools around the network through video conferencing and school visits.

There are many opportunities to take leadership. Our school has been built by a staff of leaders who come with a desire to innovate. Together, we take responsibility for the continued improvement of our school program.

How do I apply?
Please send the following to the MetWest Hiring Committee. We're currently reviewing candidates.
1. A resume with references
2. Two letters of recommendation (one from a recent supervisor and one from a student or student's parent from the past 5 years)
3. A cover letter that describes:
a. Why you would be a good fit at MetWest
b. How you have supported improved student achievement for African American and Latino students
c. Ways you have participated in a professional learning community
d. Your beliefs about the role of education in social change

You can email or send your application packet to:
MetWest High School
Attn: Hiring Committee
314 East 10th Street, Huerta Hall
Oakland, CA 94606
(510) 879-0235
metwestedgarn@gmail.com

New!  Posted 3/4/10 Leadership High School, San Francisco, CA
Potential Openings: Teacher/Advisor, Accepting Candidates in All Credentialed Areas
Start: August 2010

Leadership High School is a public charter high school in San Francisco. Our mission is to serve San Francisco and its diverse students by providing an excellent education and developing effective community leaders. Our vision is to achieve this mission by ensuring that every child is known well by at least one adult and by fostering a learning community that, based in inquiry, is focused on equity and diversity. Our rigorous program prepares 100% of our diverse student body for college. Graduation is based on completion of the UC A-G requirements, Exhibition, Portfolio Defense, and mastery of our four School-Wide Outcomes of Communication, Personal Responsibility, Social Responsibility, and Critical Thinking.

Job Qualifications
▪ An ability to work well with students, parents and colleagues
▪ Willingness to participate in a community that is mission and vision driven
▪ Experience and strong track-record with a diverse population in an urban setting
▪ Experience and interest in school reform
▪ Willingness and experience serving as a generalist first and specialist second
▪ Desire to take leadership role in school community
▪ Current California Single Subject Credential; passing CBEST scores; fingerprinting clearance; current immunizations;
proof of work experience and transcripts all required prior to hiring

Job Description
Specific Expectations:
▪ Provide rigorous curriculum in four sections of classes (or equivalent assignment) of ~25-30 students each
▪ Support students to succeed through alternative and fair approaches to assessment as well as discipline
▪ Maintain accurate records of students' grades and attendance and submit them within the required time
▪ Participate in grade level and department meetings to carry out grade and department specific business, align and
deepen curriculum, improve pedagogy; and establish and nurture collegial relationships

General Expectations:
▪ Work a 190-day work year with expectation that all job requirements are fulfilled;
▪ Participate in student retreats at the start of the year (2-3 days with an overnight);
▪ Practice LHS's agreed upon norms, adhere to LHS processes and policies, and consider the big picture of schooling
when considering decisions;
▪ Support the Principal in the design and/or implementation of Staff Development based on needs of students and
school;
▪ Participate fully in all staff development (each Wednesday in addition to the 15 Staff Development days) and staff
collaboration; this may include but is not limited to committee work, department work, grade level work, peer coaching;
▪ Design and lead a Week Without Walls course;
▪ Serve as an academic advisor to a group of ~15 students;
▪ Participate fully in back to school night and family meeting week;
▪ Chaperone and attend a minimum of five extracurricular events to include two dances and/or other extra-curricular
student events, one parent association meeting/event, one LHS Board meeting and one enrollment info session;
▪ Support the Principal and Assistant Principal with supervision of students before, during, and after the school day;
▪ Maintain daily communication using phone messages and email;
▪ Participate in peer coaching process as part of larger evaluation process;
▪ Conduct an end-of-year self assessment as part of a larger evaluation process;
▪ Participate in school wide inquiry work.

Fax or Send Resume to: LEADERSHIP HIGH SCHOOL
Attention to: Mayra Melgar
Oneida Avenue Suite 301, S. F., CA 94112
415-841-8925 (fax) or email to: mmelgar@leadershiphigh.org

Emery Unified School District

Several openings.

Please see:

http://www.emeryusd.k12.ca.us/