Avance Resident Teacher

Job Title: Avance Resident

Contact Name: Briana Murray briana.murray@caminonuevo.org

Pay Months: 11 months (200 workdays)

Salary Rate: $23.50 per hour (28 hours a week on avg.)

Salary information: Classified, non-exempt, hourly

Full-time/Part-time: Part-time

About Avance Residency

The Avance Residency is a one-year, robust teacher preparation program for candidates in the greater Los Angeles area. Avance disrupts systems of inequity in teacher preparation to collectively innovate, transform, and provide access and advancement for educators, especially those from our historically marginalized communities. We invest in and develop them to thrive, so that our students receive the highest quality education starting on day one. In Avance, teacher residents learn what to teach, how to teach it, and build strong networks of support through cohort learning, mentorship, and university programs.  

The Opportunity

An Avance Resident Teacher is a nonexempt, classified staff member. Residents are a critical part of school communities within the Avance consortium*. Avance residents work under the supervision of a mentor teacher and support them in implementing all instructional components. While planning and implementing instructional content, residents receive coaching and mentoring from their Avance mentor teacher. 

Essential Functions

The duties listed below are intended only as illustrations of the various types of work that may be performed. The omission of specific statements of dues does not exclude the duties from the position if the work is similar, related, or logical assignments to a resident. 

• Intentionally observe mentor teacher planning and implementing teaching and instructional strategies rooted in grade level expectations and standards
• Set a positive, culturally responsive classroom culture that supports all students 
• Collaborate with mentor teacher to plan and implement instructional practices
• Plan and lead all aspects of instruction and teaching during “Take Over for Fieldwork” experience using grade level standards and classroom curriculum
• Regularly assess students and provide differentiated instruction when needed
• Substitute teach within the school 1x a week 
• Attend all school site professional development and Avance Residency Seminar
• Attend LMU coursework and complete all credential requirements (CSETS, EdTPA, fieldwork, etc). 

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree from accredited institution conferred by June 2026 (Required)
• Committed to teaching within Central and South Los Angeles (Required)
• Demonstrates a passion and commitment to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
• Demonstrates successful experience working with TK-12 students (Preferred)
• Bilingual (oral and written) English and Spanish (Desired)

What you will receive- include hourly rate, weekly hrs, year/months of employment

• $48,200 Financial Package (includes hourly rate, sub pay, retirement benefits, and tuition contribution)
• Hourly rate of $23.50 
• $8,000-$10,000  tuition contribution
• High quality, rigorous teacher preparation program
• Support system: mentor teacher, school site leader, university advisor, fieldwork supervisor, Residency Coach, and cohort

*Charter Networks within Avance Residency: Camino Nuevo Charter Academy, Para Los Niños, Equitas Academy, New LA, CLIC, STEM Preparatory Schools, Watts Learning Center

NON-DISCRIMINATION STATEMENT

Camino Nuevo Charter Academy (CNCA) prohibits discrimination, harassment, intimidation and bullying in educational programs, activities, or employment on the basis of actual or perceived ancestry, age, color, disability, gender, gender identity, gender expression, nationality, race or ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, parental, pregnancy, family or marital status, military status or association with a person or a group with one or more of these actual or perceived characteristics. Camino Nuevo Charter Academy requires that school personnel take immediate steps to intervene when safe to do so when he or she witnesses an act of discrimination, harassment, intimidation, or bullying.

Questions or complaints of alleged discrimination, harassment, intimidation and bullying, equity or Title IX equity and compliance concerns should be directed to Margarita Domingo, Vice President of Human Resources. She can be reached at (213) 417-3410 or by mail at 3435 W Temple St. Los Angeles, CA 90026.