007-2025: 4th/5th Grade Combination Classroom Teacher - Internal Applicants only

1.0 FTE - 007-2025 posting ID

Washougal School District

Posting for the 2025-26 School Year

Position Type: Certificated, continuing contract after required provisional status

Position Title:  1.0 FTE 4th/5th Grade Combination Classroom Teacher

Position Location: Columbia River Gorge Elementary

Position Posting: 008-2025

Position Begins: 08/25/2025

Salary: $64,524 to $121,612 Based on 2024-25 salary schedule and placement is based upon education and experience

POSTED: April 7, 2025, first review of applicants April 14, 2025

5 days per week

184 days/180 student attendance (per District calendar)

District salary schedule

Internal Posting for WAE members closes at 4:00 p.m. on April 11, 2025.

The Washougal Strategic Plan is centered on our commitment to know, nurture and challenge all students to rise and includes our six guiding pillars that steer our work and prioritize our decisions and actions: 

• Effective Instruction - We will invest in attracting, retaining, and developing excellent teachers and staff. We will provide relevant, rigorous and supportive instruction with high expectations for all students.
• Career & College Readiness - We will prepare students to contribute to the community they live in, whether in skilled trades, higher education, or professional careers.  
• Equity - We will engage in intentional efforts to identify disparities that create opportunity gaps, and take action to eliminate the achievement gap. We will develop and strengthen students' agency, so they are prepared for careers, college and life. 
• Educational Engagement - We will ensure all students are involved in innovative, artistic, creative, vocational, and intellectual pursuits, so they develop confidence, understanding, and agency in the classroom and beyond.
• Partnerships to Support Students - We will partner to build culturally responsive schools, where all children are known, supported and connected through positive relationships in a safe environment.
• Stewardship of Resources - We will maximize resources to create opportunities for our students through a transparent budget process that aligns with our priorities for student achievement and operations of the district. Every dollar matters.

Purpose

The Washougal School District is committed to attracting, developing, and retaining a highly qualified workforce that appreciates the diversity of our community and is committed to practices that are responsive to the needs of all students and families. We welcome candidates representing the diversity of the world who understand that students are our future.

A Washougal School District educator knows, nurtures, and challenges all students with high expectations, a love of learning, and a focus on helping every student realize their full potential while learning at high levels.  Effective educators recognize individual students’ strengths and needs, and use multiple strategies to help all students be successful while creating collaborative, equitable, safe, and welcoming communities of learners. 

Required Endorsements: OSPI/WA state Teaching Certificate with Elementary Education endorsement

Essential Functions

A classroom teacher:

• Develops and maintains a safe and effective learning environment;
• Plans and implements an instructional program designed to meet individual student needs;
• Evaluates student performance and progress;
• Uses necessary and appropriate instructional methods and materials, which are suited to the needs of the students and to the nature of the learning activities, program and/or curriculum involved;
• Establishes and implements, in a positive and supportive manner, clear classroom procedures, routines and expectations;
• Provides for the personal and social growth of students;
• Makes referrals for assistance where appropriate;
• Participates in team planning focused on instructional practices and student learning;
• Communicates student progress to parents/guardians;
• Maintains appropriate student records;
• Directs the activities of assigned non-certificated personnel;
• Participates in staff meetings and other activities deemed necessary by the District and/or building principal, in order to accomplish the objectives of the position and for professional growth;
• Work cooperatively with a building team in planning, supporting and providing instruction, and share with other staff the responsibility for supervision of activities and student behavior outside the regular classroom;
• Demonstrate positive relationship skills with students, families and district staff, maintaining ongoing and open communication;
• Encourage and provide the structure for ongoing, meaningful involvement of families and community members in the classroom and school;
• Use technology to provide challenging instruction to students of all learning levels and;
• Possess knowledge of and adhere to Governing Policies and District Regulations and Procedures.

Other Functions

• Serves on staff committees as needed.
• Performs related tasks consistent with the scope and responsibility of the position.

Qualifications

• Must qualify for a valid Washington State teaching certificate with appropriate endorsements as required by law.
• Ability to implement classroom management procedures for large and small groups of students, providing an environment conducive to learning.
• Ability to communicate clearly and effectively in written and oral form.
• Ability to integrate relevant technology for the purpose of student learning across curricular areas.
• Flexibility and adaptability in varied conditions and settings.
• Ability to assess the needs of students and implement effective lessons to meet those needs through the use of appropriate instructional materials.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with a variety of staff and stakeholders.
• Ability to establish positive relationships with students, in a mutually respectful, supportive and accessible manner.
• Ability to relate positively to students and adults of varying socioeconomic, cultural, ethnic backgrounds, learning styles and/or disabilities.
• Ability to process information in order to make sound judgments and decisions.

Education: Bachelor’s degree in job related area

Certificates & Licenses

WA/OSPI Teaching Certificate with an elementary education endorsement(s)

Valid First Aid Certificate

Clearances

WSP/FBI Background Clearance

WA State Sexual Misconduct Inquiry

The Washougal School District is a Drug & Tobacco Free workplace. 

AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER

The Washougal School District complies with all federal and state rules and regulations and does not discriminate on the basis of sex, race, creed, religion, color, national origin, age, honorably discharged veteran or military status, sexual orientation including gender expression or identity, the presence of any sensory, mental, or physical disability, or the use of a trained dog guide or service animal by a person with a disability in its programs and activities and provides equal access to the Boy Scouts and other designated youth groups. This holds true for all district employment and educational programs.  The following employees have been designated to handle questions and complaints of alleged discrimination:

Title IX/RCW 28A.640 Compliance Officer: Brian Wilde, (360) 954-3104

ADA Compliance Officer:Connor McCroskey (360) 954-3021

and Section 504 Coordinator: Connor McCroskey (360) 954-3021

Inquiries regarding compliance and/or grievance procedures may be directed to the school district's Title IX/ RCW 28A.640 & ADA compliance officer and Section 504 coordinator.

Salary : $64,524 - $121,612