Associate Teacher (2026-2027 SY)

**Location:** Nashville, Tennessee **Employment Type:** This is a full-time, in-person support role for the upcoming 2026-2027 school year. **Annualized Salary:** Associate Teacher's salary: $35,360. If confirmed in a long-term Instructional Support role, the salary will increase to $44,520. **About Valor:** Founded in 2014, Valor Collegiate Academies is a top-performing, public charter school network in Nashville, Tennessee, serving students in Grades 5-12 across three schools. Our mission is to create a community where students of all backgrounds have equitable access to an education that prepares them to live inspired and purposeful lives. This mission is made possible through an innovative school model that balances rigorous academics and whole-child education in an intentionally diverse environment. Learn more about Valor: https://valorcollegiate.org/our-model/ **About The Role:** Valor Collegiate Academies is hiring full-time Associate Teachers to serve as instructional support in the event of short-term teacher absences and long-term vacancies when a certified teacher is unavailable. Valor’s Associate Teacher model is similar to a teacher residency program, where individuals are not just substitute teachers, but receiving on-the-job experience as educators and applying that training as Instructional Support this first year before becoming a certified teacher in their second or third year as a Valor teacher. Associate Teachers will be assigned to a specific school campus to internalize the culture, integrate into that team, and provide instructional coverage for short-term teacher absences, though that assignment may change based on organizational needs. Short-term coverage assignment is at the discretion of each campus’ Principal and/or Director of Operations. Once a long-term, permit-eligible vacancy is confirmed at a campus, however, Associate Teachers may be assigned to fill that vacancy. This may mean intercampus movement to serve where the long-term vacancy exists. Coverage in long-term vacancies supersedes short-term coverage support for our Associate Teachers. Once assigned to a permit-eligible, long-term teaching vacancy: - Valor will apply for a temporary, 1-year teaching permit with the Tennessee Department of Education on their behalf. - Associate Teachers will be promoted to an "Instructional Support" position, which changes in job title and increased salary to $44,520 because of the additional responsibilities that come with leading, teaching, and grading for permit-eligible content classes. - The Associate Teacher will assume all responsibilities associated with the course, receive coaching, attend professional development, and remain in that vacancy for the remainder of the school year as Instructional Support. For those interested in becoming a fully certified teacher after one year of service at Valor, we encourage Associate Teachers to apply to our Transition to Teach Program. An Associate Teacher can serve a maximum of two years before making a decision about continuing as a full-time, certified teacher at Valor in Year 3. Those choosing not to pursue that path will not be eligible to continue employment in this capacity. **Key Responsibilities:** - Deliver lessons to a class of students wherever the campus has deemed a coverage need. - Evaluate student work and grade assignments. - Meet with an assigned coach and attend instructional preparation meetings to refine approach and craft as an educator-in-training. - Enforce, uphold, and exhibit the school's values, student behavior management policies, and culture. - Fill in to support with needed school-based duties (e.g lunch/recess monitoring or arrival/dismissal duties). - Track, manage, and input daily student behavior and engagement feedback to share with Student Support Team and leader teachers. - Respond to students’ behavior progress in real-time with recommended interventions based on Valor’s behavior framework. - Participate in faculty Circle…