• Bachelor’s degree in English, Teaching, or related subject.
• Three to five years of experience teaching in an Elementary School or Middle School setting. 
• Experience teaching reading, writing, and critical thinking skills.
• Demonstrated commitment to ongoing professional development in both subject matter and progressive educational methodology.

• Utilizes a constructive approach to support student discovery, active learning, and collaboration
• Develops strong, meaningful relationships with students and their families.
• Establishes clear and consistent standards and expectations.
• Addresses a range of learning needs through flexible and culturally responsive teaching
• Provides regular and supportive feedback.
• Employs multiple forms of assessment, including informal and formal.
• Meets regularly with a grade-level partner, content specialists, and admin to create teaching and learning aligned with the school’s mission and core beliefs.
• Proactively communicates with families to best serve the interests of students.
• Deals with conflict in ways intended to solve problems, restore relationships, and support a student’s growth and development.
• Engages in ongoing professional development to develop and elevate curriculum and pedagogy in alignment with the school’s core values and beliefs.
• Conducts parent conferences twice a year and completes progress reports three times a year.
• Supervises and provides for the general welfare of students during the school day, on school trips, and during school activities.
• Participates in admission screening and prospective parent events
• Assists with the school budget process and the creation of class lists.
• Actively engages in the many facets of school life. 

Oakwood School is a K-12 coeducational day school in North Hollywood, California that opened its doors in 1951. The school has remained faithful to its original mission ever since: to create a diverse educational environment where young people are partners with the adults who teach them and learn from them; where the best means of preparing students for the future is to immerse them in the present; where a healthy learning environment requires joy and humor as well as rigorous intensity; and where students’ intellectual and aesthetic depth – along with their capacity for empathy and moral courage – emerge out of authentic engagement with their teachers, one another, and the world around them.

Oakwood School is an equal opportunity employer committed to cultural diversity in our workforce. With purpose, Oakwood celebrates and affirms diversity of race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, faith, family structure, socioeconomic background, age, and ability.