Elementary Classroom Teacher

Position Description:

Treasure Valley Classical Academy seeks candidates to teach core subjects (literacy, numeracy, science, literature, and history) to elementary school students for the 2024-2025 academic year. Potential openings include upper elementary grades (5 & 6) and kindergarten. In addition to an undergraduate degree, teacher candidates should possess a passion for learning and a kind-hearted disposition towards children. Teachers are expected to help students develop virtuous character as well as build a critical foundation of knowledge in the core subjects listed above. Ideal candidates will embrace the opportunity to help students “learn the true, do the good, and love the beautiful,” in keeping with the school pledge recited by teachers and students each morning. 

All candidates for employment at Treasure Valley Classical Academy must understand and support our school’s mission to train the minds and improve the hearts of students through a classical, content-rich curriculum that emphasises virtuous living, traditional learning, and civic responsibility.

About Treasure Valley Classical Academy: 

Treasure Valley Classical Academy is a tuition-free public charter school and Hillsdale College K-12 Member School. We opened to grades K-6 in 2019, will serve students in grade K-11 for the 2024-2025 academic year, and will graduate our leading class of seniors in 2026. Our content-rich liberal arts and sciences curriculum follows the Hillsdale K-12 Scope and Sequence. Our elementary-school curriculum includes explicit phonics in spelling and reading; the teaching of grammar via traditional methods of instruction; the Core Knowledge sequence (not to be confused with Common Core) in history, and science; a Singapore math-based mathematics sequence; Latin and Greek roots; and the reading of classic works of literature. The study of Spanish in elementary grades prepares students for daily study of Latin, which is required from the seventh to ninth grade. Great books and Socratic discussion commence in the upper elementary school. The upper-school curriculum centers on the reading and discussion of great books in literature, primary sources in history, and on a thorough understanding of both the facts and the concepts in mathematics and the sciences. The study of art and music is required of all students in grades K-8, and art and music electives are offered to high-school students as well. To graduate, all seniors must write a senior thesis and deliver and defend this thesis orally in front of fellow students, members of the faculty, and the principal. Teachers are hired based upon their mastery of academic disciplines and their capacity for conveying knowledge to young people. Treasure Valley Classical Academy is a Certified Member School of the growing Hillsdale K-12 Network. More information is available on TVCA’s website: www.tvcacademy.org.

How to Apply: 

Candidates should send a cover letter, a statement of educational philosophy (500 words or less), a resume or curriculum vitae, and college transcripts (unofficial transcripts are acceptable initially). Inquiries should be addressed to the principal, Dr. Clint Condra, at ccondra@tvcacademy.org.