What are the responsibilities and job description for the 021-2025: HS & MS Physical Education (PE) /Health Fitness Teacher (.6 FTE WHS/.4 FTE JMS) - Internal Applicant Only position at Washougal High School/Jemtegaard Middle School?
1.0 FTE - 021-2025 posting ID
Washougal School District
Posting for the 2025-26 School Year
Position Type: Certificated, continuing contract
Position Title: 1.0 FTE Physical Education/Health Fitness Teacher (.6 FTE WHS/.4 FTE JMS)
Position Location: Washougal High School/Jemtegaard Middle School
Position Posting: 021-2025
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 22, 2025, first review of applicants April 28, 2025
5 days per week
184 days/180 student attendance (per District calendar, prorated based on remaining days in the school year)
District salary schedule
Internal Posting for WAE members closes at 4:00 p.m. on April 28, 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. The Washougal School District desires inclusive schools and classrooms that celebrate the diversity of our school and community. We welcome candidates representing the diversity of the world.
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 rise to their highest potential and learn 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 Teaching Certificate with Physical Education or Health Fitness endorsement
Essential Functions
- Responsible for collaborating closely with building administrators, educators, support staff, families, and students to establish and implement a tiered framework that uses data to meet the needs of each and every student through academics, behavior, and social-emotional learning (SEL) interventions.
- Nurtures a school environment that celebrates, respects, and values diversity, where teaching and learning are made relevant and meaningful to students of various cultures.
- Initiates activities and discussions that lead to increased cultural competence of staff, informing and expanding teaching practices within classrooms.
- Subscribe to the notion "student success is a teacher's paramount responsibility".
- 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;
- Advises parents and/or legal guardians of student progress for the purpose of supporting teacher’s expectations, developing methods for improvement and/or reinforcing classroom goals in the home environment.
- Assesses student progress, expectations, goals, etc. for the purpose of providing feedback to students, parents/guardians and administration.
- Collaborates with school personnel, parents and various community agencies for the purpose of improving the quality of student outcomes, developing solutions and planning curriculum.
- Demonstrates methods required to perform assignments for the purpose of providing an effective school program and addressing the needs of individual students.
- Develops teaching programs (e.g. math, physical education, art, social studies, science, reading, etc.) for the purpose of providing basic subject matter specified by state law and district requirement.
- Facilitates student learning for the purpose of achieving success in academic, interpersonal and daily living skills through a defined course of study specified by state law and administrative regulations of the district.
- Monitors student activities for the purpose of providing for the safety and welfare of students.
- Participates in a variety of meetings for the purpose of conveying and/or gathering information required to perform functions.
- Prepares teaching materials and related reports (e.g. grades, attendance, anecdotal records, etc.) for the purpose of implementing lesson plans and documenting student progress.
- Reports incident (e.g. fights, suspected child abuse, suspected substance abuse, etc.) for the purpose of maintaining personal safety of students, providing a positive learning environment and adhering to Education Code, administrative and/or school policies.
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
OSPI/WA State Teaching Certificate with appropriate endorsement(s)
Valid First Aid Certificate
Clearances
WSP/FBI Background Clearance
WA State Sexual Misconduct Inquiry
Applications will be accepted until filled by a qualified applicant.
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