2024-2025 Teacher/Admin Compensation & Benefits Package

We’re proud to offer a highly competitive compensation and benefits package to support, develop, and reward our hardworking teachers and staff. Benefits may vary depending on position type; please contact Human Resources for specifics.

COMPETITIVE BENEFITS PACKAGE

MEDICAL (LOW/NO

CO PAYS )

DENTAL INSURANCE

TAKE YOUR BIRTHDAY OFF

DEDICATED PREP TIME

SMALL SCHOOL & CLASS SIZES

COMPARED

TO 30 MIN. (DISTRICT)

ONE WEEK FALL BREAK

MASTER’S STIPEND

NO YARD DUTY

COMPARED TO 180 DAYS (DISTRICT)

NEW TEACHER CLASSROOM SET-UP FUND

PAID PD OPPORTUNITIES

ASPEN PUBLIC SCHOOLS 2024-2025 COMPENSATION & BENEFITS PACKAGE

Transitional Kindergarten (TK) Teacher Job Description

Job Summary:

Aspen invites passionate educators to apply for the Transitional Kindergarten Teacher position for ​the 2024-25 school year. Teaching at Aspen is an ideal position for an educator eager to gain ​rigorous development to help perfect his/her craft. In addition to participating in weekly ​professional development and team planning meetings, teachers receive consistent high-impact ​coaching and feedback from a school administrator. Furthermore, Aspen has opportunities to ​celebrate excellent teachers, which are accompanied by increased compensation, recognition, and ​professional development opportunities. Aspen is committed to recruiting, developing, and ​retaining excellent teachers.

Key Responsibilities:

Curriculum Development:

• Outstanding academic achievement and student leadership development
  
• Create a positive, achievement-oriented, structured learning environment that excites and ​invests students.
  
• Motivate students to realize high academic and behavioral standards.
  
• Build classroom communities and invest in families to develop children’s academic success ​and development.
  
• Utilize data from Aspen’s interim assessments to drive instruction and intervention.
  
• Design and implement unit and lesson plans in collaboration with the grade or subject team.
  
• Exemplify Aspen’s core values in all interactions with students, families, and colleagues.
  
• Professional learning, development, and growth
  
• Collaborate with coach, grade-level teammates, and school team to improve instructional, ​culture-building, and leadership skills.
  
• Attend all professional development, team planning, and data analysis meetings.
  
• Participate enthusiastically in structured and informal learning and development opportunities, ​including July/August in-service training.
  

Requirements/ Qualifications:

• Strong instructional and classroom management skills.
  
• 24 Units of Early Childhood Education
  
• High level of personal organization and planning.
  
• Team player: maturity, humility, strong work ethic, follow-through, sense of humor, willingness to ​respond positively to feedback, and a “whatever it takes” attitude.
  
• Strong belief in the Aspen mission and educational model.
  
• Mastery of and enthusiasm for the subject matter.
  
• Two years of teaching experience preferred with a proven record of high student achievement in grades ​TK-4
  
• Bachelor’s degree with a GPA of at least 3.0 from a competitive college or university; Master’s degree ​preferred.
  
• California teaching credential or in the process of obtaining a credential
  

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at Aspen Public Schools

Aspen Public Schools and its schools are committed to building a diverse and inclusive community through our hiring practices and our focus on creating a culture and environment where diverse perspectives, ideas, and identities are valued and integrated into our way of working and educating students.

Aspen Public Schools, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant on the basis of race, color, ethnicity, national origin, religion, gender, gender identity and or expression, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, military status, pregnancy, parenthood, citizenship status, creed, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.