Position Type:
Classroom Teacher, full-time position
Date Posted: February 2025
Location:
Open Wings Learning Community – New Northshore Campus
Glendale, WI
Date Available: 8/25/2025
Qualifications:
- Elementary school teaching experience and/or elementary special education teaching experience (student teaching experience accepted)
- Experience teaching reading to emerging readers preferred
- Previous experience with complex learners preferred
- Understanding of progressive education ideals & practices preferred
Curriculum and Instruction:
- Develop deep understanding of individual learners in a small mixed-age K/1 classroom
- Support the implementation of research-based curriculum in reading and math
- Teach science or social studies rotation
- Participate in teaching team to support learning needs of all students at Open Wings North Shore
- Participate in ongoing professional development through weekly meetings and regular curricular seminars
- Other duties as assigned such as lunch and recess and other times of student connection and guidance
Open Wings Learning Community is a small independent school that opened in the fall of 2012 in Kenosha, WI. The second site, Open Wings – North Shore, will open in the fall of 2025. We work as a team of teachers, therapists, classroom associates, and volunteers in our schools. Our learning environment is collaborative, creative, and research focused.
We believe in the innate curiosity of all learners and seek to create optimal educational environments to nurture that learning. We teach through the motivations of our students in a strengths-based model and create individualized curricula to address areas of need. We support our students so that they experience success and are celebrated in our learning environment each day.
Open Wings Learning Community is committed to recruiting a diverse faculty and to creating a culture that supports continuous growth and development for our students and staff, we seek an educator who is reflective, open to feedback, and eager for professional collaboration.
Interested applicants should email resumes to: openwingsoffice@openwingslearning.org
