Along with excellence in the classroom, we believe that a job well done is achieved through collaboration, experience, decision making, and guiding and directing. Career progression follows the path from Associate Educator to Lead Educator. View below to learn more about our progression growth.
Associate Educators are learning to collaborate with other Associate Educators, Senior Educators, and Lead Educators. They do this to help facilitate consistency with curriculum (ensuring no gaps across grades), demonstrate ongoing learning and professional development, and aligning classroom goals with the school’s vision and brand promise.
Associate Educators may be still learning content they teach and can start the process of Project Based Learning with assistance or in the setting of co-teaching with a mentor teacher. An Associate Educator demonstrates organizational skills with follow-through implemented into action. Moreover, they communicate articulately (with students, parents, peers, and leadership) and help students gain new understanding.
The Associate Educator:
Holds Washington State Teacher Certification and has completed all requested introductory Microsoft Coursework.
Has cleared fingerprinting and background checks.
Is on time for work daily and stays for the duration of the contracted period between 7:45 AM and 4:15 PM on Monday through Friday, or as identified by the contract to be available for collaboration or meetings.
Integrates and teaches Christian faith, but also brings in multiple perspectives to help students learn that others think and believe differently to model respectful local and global interaction and dialogue, learning of other cultures, ideas, and perspectives.
Encourages a culture of mutual respect and equitable practice.
Portfolio Completion Criteria is not a series of items to check off a list, but rather a demonstration of skills inside the classroom and telling the story of learning you guided for a broader audience. Includes all items completed:
Completed LinkedIn Profile with four completed articles from the current school year.
Write an article on a STEAM experience that you designed.
Write an article with the title of your choice for area of passion that included a field trip.
Write an article on something that failed and the learning that came from it.
Examples of tool use (7 total).
A minimum of 3 years of experience at Renton Prep is required before being considered for promotion to Educator.
Educators collaborate with other Educators and take the challenges set out by Lead Educators and Senior Educators. They do this to help facilitate horizontal collaboration and consistency with curriculum (ensuring no gaps across grades), demonstrate ongoing learning and professional development, providing peer feedback and aligning classroom goals with the school’s vision and brand promise. Educators have solid grasp on content they teach, can replicate Project Based Learning structures created by others, implement a range of techniques, demonstrates organizational skills with follow-through implemented into action consistently.
The Educator:
Has met all minimum requirements and successfully and consistently exceeded “Associate Educator” Criteria.
Consistently demonstrates designing around student as the center of learning through training students to be self-directed, co-designing learning pathways, and understand learning design, purpose, and standards.
Has submitted a proposal in collaboration with a more experienced educator for at least one conference, been accepted and carried through with a high quality presentation that accurately represented Renton Prep mission, vision, and brand promise.
Designs formal and informal, traditional and non-traditional assessments or demonstrations of knowledge that measure student progress.
Portfolio Completion Criteria must meet the following for this level:
Completed LinkedIn Profile with four completed articles from the current school year.
Write an article on a Project Based Learning Experience that you designed.
Write an article on a STEAM experience that you designed.
Write an article with the title of your choice for area of passion that included a field trip.
An article on something that failed and the learning that came from it.
An article on classroom management strategies with Technology, PBL, and/or STEAM.
Examples of tool use (7 total).
A minimum of 5 years of experience at Renton Prep is required before being considered for promotion to Senior Educator.
Senior Educators collaborate with Lead Educators on decision making, facilitate horizontal collaboration and consistency with curriculum. They are also responsible for guiding and providing some direction, as well as assisting in creating new and original pieces (learning/policy/assessment/vision/community connection/classroom management), providing feedback and holding others accountable to the vision.
Senior Educators have the ability to improvise, work on demand effectively, communicate articulately to transfer ideas and influence peers. They provide training and have seen others grow under their guidance.
Senior Educators:
Have the ability to provide academic coaching, understand theories of motivation, and how those relate to assessment and environment.
Are able to lead co-teaching, coach/mentor other teachers, provide feedback, critique and hold accountable to align with mission, vision, and brand promise.
Interact with developers from Microsoft and other industries to provide useful feedback that in turn helps with assessment and student development.
Co-create or assist in professional development for staff/faculty at the school and others outside of the school through online publications, conferences, or other training engagements.
Are involved in interviewing and hiring process.
Portfolio Completion Criteria must meet the following for this level:
Completed LinkedIn Profile with four completed articles from the current school year.
Write an article on a Project Based Learning Experience that you designed.
Write an article on a STEAM experience that you designed.
Write an article with the title of your choice for area of passion that included a field trip.
An article on something that failed and the learning that came from it.
An article on classroom management strategies with Technology, PBL, and/or STEAM.
An article on leadership, protocols, governance, teacher-leader, or broad topic relating to school leadership or global impact as a Showcase School.
Examples of tool use (7 total).
A minimum of 7 years of experience at Renton Prep is required before being considered for promotion to Lead Educator, as well as a minimum of Master’s Degree in an applicable field in progress.
Lead Educators take on main decision making, facilitate horizontal collaboration and consistency with curriculum. They also take responsibility for guiding and directing, as well as creating new and original pieces (learning/policy/assessment/vision/community connection/classroom management), providing feedback and holding others accountable to the vision.
Lead Educators are actively engaging with external resources and challenging forward movement of the vision.
Lead Educators:
Have mastered classroom management and guided student self-regulation (challenging and providing support where necessary).
Provide academic coaching, understand theories of motivation, and how that relates to assessment and environment.
Lead co-teaching, coach/mentor other teachers, provide feedback, critique and hold faculty and students accountable to align with mission, vision, and brand promise.
Interact with developers and Transformation Framework guides from Microsoft and other industries to provide useful feedback that in turn helps with assessment and student development.
Are central in interviewing and hiring process.
Portfolio Completion Criteria must meet the following for this level:
Completed LinkedIn Profile with four completed articles from the current school year.
Write an article on a Project Based Learning Experience that you designed.
Write an article on a STEAM experience that you designed.
Write an article with the title of your choice for area of passion that included a field trip.
An article on something that failed and the learning that came from it.
An article on classroom management strategies with Technology, PBL, and/or STEAM.
An article on leadership, protocols, governance, teacher-leader, or broad topic relating to school leadership or global impact as a Showcase School.
Evidence of being accepted as MIE Expert and applied to speak at professional conference.
Evidence of leading professional development in some form.
Examples of tool use (7 total).
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