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Position Summary
This is a 5/5 (100% FTE) position, teaching Spanish at several grade levels.

Responsibilities and Duties

• Model Lasallian/Vincentian charisms;

• Support SHC's mission, philosophy and Integral Student Outcomes;

• In collaboration with World Language Department colleagues, and per department goals (see https://www.shcp.edu/academics/category/world-language):

  • Following the National Standards for Foreign Language Education, facilitate development of listening, speaking, reading and writing skills in Spanish;

  • Encourage students to gain experiential knowledge of other cultures, make connections across disciplines, explore the natures of language and culture by comparisons with their native language and culture, and actively participate in bilingual communities, beginning with the World Language classroom;

  • Design and implement standards-based learning to facilitate critical thinking and mastery of essential skills and understandings as determined by the level learning team;

  • Provide regular and varied formative and summative assessments to demonstrate achievement and to facilitate students' ability to understand their progress toward learning targets;

• Maintain an interactive and timely learning environment, in both physical and virtual learning spaces;

• Communicate consistently with students, parents, and school personnel;

• Keep current and complete electronic grading and attendance records;

• Participate in the school's Advisory program and cocurricular activities;

• Engage in professional learning as part of being a reflective practitioner, integrating best and next teaching practices, and continuing the school's commitment to excellence;

• Actively participate in SHC's strategic initiatives to strengthen meaningful diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging practices, especially strategies to support equitable learning, culturally responsive teaching, social emotional learning, and universal design for learning (as stipulated by the DEIB strategic plan adopted by SHC Board of Regents in 2021);

• Participate in the four-year New Faculty Professional Development and Support Program;

• Engage in the mission of SHC and the charisms of the Daughters of Charity and De La Salle Christian Brothers and Department of Catholic Schools through their formational programs.

Required Qualifications

• Undergraduate degree in Spanish;

• Teaching credential or working towards it; single-subject teaching credential in Spanish
  preferred;

• Experience working with high school students;

• Ability to work independently and collaboratively to promote student learning.

Desired Qualifications

• Master’s Degree;

• Experience teaching in a Catholic high school setting;

The statements herein describe the general nature and level of work being performed by the employee assigned to this position and should not be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required of personnel so assigned.

Certifications and/or Licensure
Teaching credential

Education and/or Experience:
Bachelor’s Degree

Physical Demands:
The physical demands described here represent those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential job functions. Reasonable accommodations may be made for individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to be present in front of students for long lengths of time; to be able to handle or feel, as well as be able to communicate. The employee is frequently required to reach. The employee is required to move throughout multiple campuses and floors. The employee may lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.

Work Environment:
The work environment characteristics described here represent those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made for individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Sacred Heart Cathedral is an equal opportunity employer:
The Archdiocese of San Francisco will only employ those who are legally authorized to work in the United States for this opening. Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a background investigation. The Archdiocese of San Francisco will consider, for employment, qualified applicants with criminal histories.
Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.

About Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory

Inspired by the Daughters of Charity and the De La Salle Christian Brothers, in partnership with families, Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory's mission is to provide the finest education in an inclusive Catholic community of faith. We prepare our high school students to become service-oriented leaders with a commitment to living the Gospel. Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory (SHC) is a Lasallian Vincentian Catholic, co-educational college preparatory secondary school located in the heart of San Francisco, California. We provide academically rigorous, vibrant learning grounded in social justice and student centered pedagogy. Our entire community is committed to cultivating each student's unique talents and passions, providing myriad opportunities for students to discern and realize their individual intellectual, artistic, athletic, social, and spiritual potential. SHC is a San Francisco Archdiocesan High School that is cosponsored by the De La Salle Christian Brothers, District of San Francisco New Orleans and the Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul, Province of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton. As an inclusive Catholic community of faith, we respect and support our students, f...aculty and staff and their sense of belonging in an increasingly diverse world. At SHC, such respect is grounded by our mission and carried out through our Lasallian Vincentian Catholic educational traditions. In these efforts, we prepare our students as future leaders to model our credo, "Enter to Learn, Leave to Serve".

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