Lower School Homeroom - First grade (Long-Term Substitute)

LOWER SCHOOL 1st GRADE TEACHER (Full time to cover a family leave from January, 2025 through April, 2025)

The Head-Royce Lower School is seeking a dynamic, creative educator to join our first grade team for a period of time to cover family leave. Our homeroom teachers have a contained classroom of approximately 20 students and deliver content and skills in language arts, social studies, science and math. In addition, teachers use the Responsive Classroom approach, Toolbox and our school’s mission to support social-emotional and character growth. Our faculty create classrooms that encourage students to participate in experiential learning, take risks, view the world through multiple lenses, utilize innovative tools, and demonstrate proficiencies through a range of assessments that include real world problems and performances. Beyond the classroom, teachers are expected to take on Lower-School-wide duties and participate in the life of the community.

• Collaborative, collegial, and flexible teacher within the Lower School with other student-focused educators
• Clear communicator with students, colleagues and parents/guardians, both orally and in writing 
• Demonstrates knowledge of a child’s physical, social and emotional development 
• Possesses a growth mindset, a love of learning, and patience
• Uses technology to enhance the student experiencePractices in differentiated instruction
• Strong organizational, planning, and classroom management skills

• Bachelor’s Degree
• Minimum 3 years experience teaching at the primary elementary level 
• Strong academic background, experience in equity and inclusion education and an awareness of ecological literacy
• Genuine fondness for working with students of this age

• Advanced degrees in the field of education

To Apply:

Interested candidates are asked to submit a letter of interest as well as a current resume. 

Application materials should be submitted through our website.

Located on a 22-acre campus in Oakland, California, Head-Royce (HRS) is a pre-eminent, co-educational, independent, K-12 day school with a 137-year history. Our mission is to inspire in our students a lifelong love of learning and pursuit of academic excellence, to promote understanding of and respect for diversity that makes our society strong and to encourage active and responsible global citizenship.

Head-Royce enrolls 900 students in the three separate divisions—Lower, Middle and Upper—and provides a dynamic, whole-child education to every student.

Please note - HRS is unable to provide immigration sponsorships such as H1B Visas. Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States and be willing to undergo both Livescan background check and TB screening as part of the hiring process.

Head Royce is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions including but not limited to employment, training, promotion, demotion, transfer, leaves of absence and termination based on qualifications and without regard to protected status. We will not discriminate based on age, color, creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding or related medical conditions), gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, national origin or ancestry, race (including traits historically associated with race, such as hair texture and protective hairstyles), religion, registered domestic partner status, physical or mental disability, a medical condition including genetic characteristics, military or veteran status, reproductive health decision making or any other consideration made unlawful by federal, state or local laws Head-Royce School seeks to be a community in which every individual is treated with sensitivity, courtesy and respect.