CTE Teacher
CTE Teacher - Steilacoom High School
Business & Marketing and Financial Math
Start Date: August 25. 2025
FTE: .8 FTE
Days Per Year: 183
Location: Steilacoom High School
Base Salary Range (.8 FTE): $48,542-$91,494
Professional Learning Stipend (.8 FTE): $5,328-$10,042*
*The 2025-26 SEA Salary Schedule has not been finalized -- please refer to the 2024-25 salary schedule here
Are you passionate about preparing the next generation of leaders and entrepreneurs? Steilacoom High School is seeking a dynamic educator to join our Career and Technical Education (CTE) team as a Business & Marketing and Financial Math teacher. In this role, you will become part of an exceptional staff dedicated to helping students grow into joyful and confident learners. As a CTE teacher, you’ll inspire students to explore real-world applications of business, finance, marketing, and economics.
Our district is located a 20 minute drive south of Tacoma, and serves just over 3,000 students across six schools, including a remote PreK-3 elementary school on Anderson Island and five mainland schools:
- Cherrydale Primary School (PreK-3)
- Chloe Clark Elementary (PreK-3)
- Saltar’s Point Elementary (Grades 4-5)
- Pioneer Middle School (Grades 6-8)
- Steilacoom High School (Grades 9-12)
This is an exciting opportunity to be part of a collaborative, student-centered team where your expertise is valued and your work has a direct positive impact on our school community. We’re looking for someone who loves making connections, enjoys having fun, and creates a safe and supportive space where students can grow.
Minimum Qualifications and Skills
- Successful experience or demonstrated commitment toward working with culturally and racially diverse students, families and communities.
- Successful completion of either a full teacher program with valid teaching certificate and/or endorsement or successful completion of an approved state program for the Business and Industry Requirements for CTE (see certification options for CTE).
- Possess or qualify to attain a valid Washington State CTE certificate.
- Experience or skill in delivering instruction in STEM courses.
- Demonstrated ability or willingness to actively recruit students and promote the CTE program through outreach efforts, marketing strategies, and collaboration with school staff, families, and community partners.
- Knowledge of strength-focused instructional strategies for students that promotes autonomy, cooperation and student voice.
- Experience or skill in creating a caring classroom environment that is orderly, purposeful and facilitates student learning.
- Experience or skill in planning, preparing and delivering differentiated instruction that facilitates active learning.
- Demonstrated skill or experience supporting and contributing to the success of students with disabilities.
- Understanding of how injustice or racial inequity may impact students and families experience with school.
- Exceptional interpersonal skills and ability to collaborate with others.
- Strong relationship building, networking skills to connect with community businesses and resources.
- Ability to maintain confidentiality, work effectively under pressure, and remain flexible.
- Ability to meet and maintain punctuality and attendance expectations.