There will be three teacher leaders assigned to each middle and high school for the 2026-2027 school year. Please contact your principal for additional information about this position.
JOB SUMMARY
These teacher leader positions are designed to provide support and assistance toward meeting the performance plan goals at the assigned school. This position may take on different specific responsibilities, which are identified in the next section. Individuals who hold a teacher leader position will help facilitate each area listed below, and will focus on areas that capitalize upon personal areas of strength while providing input and collaboration with the principal and building teams. In addition, the teacher leader will have training opportunities to further develop their leadership skills.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
- Serve as a member of the principal’s school leadership team.
- Lead to create a positive school culture.
- Collaboratively plan for 2-3 PLC meetings per month.
- Be willing to demonstrate and share best teaching practices with others. This may include but is not limited to best instructional strategies, model PLCs, and teaching demonstrations.
- Participate in leadership development opportunities, including PLC training, PLC planning, instructional analysis, and collaborative walk-through/demonstration lessons (scrub-ins) as calendared.
- Attend PLC training and serve as a leader and facilitator at the department level and within the school, training others and offering support and guidance in the PLC process.
- Participate in training and develop a deeper understanding of both Tier 2 practices (differentiation strategies) and effective feedback strategies (rubrics, feedback, flexible grouping) in the classroom.
- Participate in training on peer observation best practices.
- Effectively communicate with colleagues and other stakeholders about school leadership meetings, school performance plan goals & strategies for achievement.
- Lead PLCs: Plan meetings with administrative support; keep track of PLC work and data, organize and post assessments, calendars, data, progress, etc.
- Attend meetings, trainings, and events outside of the regular contract day, both in the assigned school and at the district level (see attached calendar).
- Report progress of the team back to the overseeing administrator and provide data for the school and department scorecards and SLGs.
- Assist in school initiatives such as the RTI process, PLCs, and student engagement best practices.
- Availability to attend 1.5 days of on-site training in August to help prepare for in-service week [tentatively August 18, 2025 (8 hours) + school-level team building (4 hours) during the week of 8/18-8/22, determined by the building administrator]
- Availability to attend professional development during 2 scheduled Individual SIWs.
ADDITIONAL OPPORTUNITIES
- Optional opportunities may be made available to attend trainings of interest with sub-release time.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- Demonstrates a strong depth of knowledge in their instructional practice and teaching strategies.
- Demonstrates a commitment to the concept of collaborative learning teams in which colleagues grow professionally together to meet the needs of all students in the school.
- Demonstrates a commitment to learning about and utilizing equitable practices in the classroom
- Demonstrates commitment to professional reflection and continuous professional growth.
- Demonstrates positive leadership skills and abilities.
- Demonstrates strong technical skills (Google Apps for Education & Canvas).
- Successful in maintaining organizational systems.
- Demonstrates success as a creative problem solver.
- Demonstrates success in facilitating small groups.
- Demonstrates success as a reliable team member.
- Must hold a valid Oregon Teaching License.
COMPENSATION
The compensation begins on the October paycheck.
Hourly breakdown
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Event
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Hours
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Occurrences
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Total
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Monthly leadership meeting (2 per month, 1 in December & June)
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1
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18
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18
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August Training (tentatively Aug. 24th for 8 hours) & Planning Sessions with principal (during the week of Aug 24-28 for 4 hours)
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12
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1
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12
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Two Individual SIWs (on contract time)
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1
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2
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2
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PLC trainings/planning (1 per month)
Tentatively until 4:45 on 9/14, 10/5, 11/2, 12/7, 1/4, 2/1, 3/1, 4/5, 5/3, 6/7
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1.75
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10
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17.5
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Personal presentation planning: Prep time to lead SIWs & in-service trainings
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7.5
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–
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7.5
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Various leadership duties as directed by the building principal (ie: dances, pep rallies, parent nights, etc.)
Note: Hours missed during regular meeting times may be made up in this category
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2
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–
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2
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TOTALS
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59
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Based on stipend: $1989 w/ PERS for 59 hours as outlined in the Extra Responsibility schedule of the
2024-25 contract. Amount is subject to change at the conclusion of bargaining.
Hours are subject to slight changes, but not to exceed a total of 59 hours.
If a teacher leader is unable to attend any of the required opportunities, the principal may reserve the right
to reassign those hours to perform a different duty.