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Position Type: Secondary Teaching & Certified School Positions/ English
Date Posted: 9/25/2026
Location: Rocky Vista High SchoolDate Available: 11/16/2026
Closing Date:
10/10/2026 Rocky Vista High School, a 27J School in Commerce City, CO, is seeking 7 educators to serve on its Founding Teacher Leadership Team and help prepare the school for its opening in Fall 2027.Rocky Vista is built around one central commitment: All Means All. Every student belongs here, is believed in for their potential, and is valued for who they are. We design learning, opportunities, and support around the strengths, needs, identities, and experiences students bring with them. Our values, STORM commitments, and guiding learning principles establish the foundation for Rocky Vista. The Founding Teacher Leadership Team will help translate that foundation into the everyday experiences of students and adults.
Number of Positions:
7 - One in each core area (4), one elective teacher, one SPED teacher, one counselor
Stipend: $2400
The Work:
The Founding Teacher Leadership Team will work with the principal to develop a coherent Rocky Vista experience. This is a working team where members will examine needs, develop ideas, design practices, make recommendations, and revise the work as we learn more.
The team will contribute to:
Student Learning: Defining what students should consistently experience in Rocky Vista classrooms, including rigorous grade level learning, relationships, student ownership, productive struggle, meaningful feedback, dialogue, reflection, and multiple pathways to demonstrate learning.
Belonging and Support: Helping design systems that ensure students are known, connected, supported, and able to access opportunities. This may include MTSS, restorative practices, well being, student support processes, and student voice.
Adult Collaboration and Learning: Helping shape how staff will collaborate, use evidence, improve instruction, receive support, and continue learning. This may include Professional Learning Communities, professional learning, and the future role of the Instructional Leadership Team.
Culture and Community: Helping translate Rocky Vista's values into routines, expectations, traditions, student and family partnerships, communication, and the opening year experience.
Founding Staff: Participating in the selection and preparation of educators who will become part of Rocky Vista's inaugural staff.
The team will also help address the practical decisions involved in opening a school. Some will shape major systems. Others will concern the smaller routines that determine what it feels like to learn, teach, work, and belong at Rocky Vista.
Who We Are:
Looking ForWe want a team with different experiences, strengths, content areas, and perspectives. A formal leadership title is not required.
Strong candidates will:
Believe deeply in the capacity and potential of every student.
Understand that relationships, meaningful support, academic rigor, and high expectations belong together.
Consider the full range of students when designing learning, opportunities, and support.
Use evidence to understand what is happening and determine what to try next.
Value student thinking, ownership, voice, reflection, and increasing responsibility for learning.
Work collaboratively while contributing an independent perspective.
Ask thoughtful questions and participate in direct, respectful conversations.
Remain curious and flexible when information changes or an initial approach does not work.
Represent perspectives beyond their own classroom, department, or professional experience.
Follow through on commitments and contribute to the practical work required to move ideas forward.
Our STORM commitments of Success, Trust, Opportunity, Respect, and Mindset will guide both what the team builds and how its members work together.
We are not looking for educators who already have every answer. We are looking for people who understand the responsibility of building from the beginning and want to help turn Rocky Vista's commitments into a school students and adults can experience every day.
Founding Teacher Leadership Team members will complete work outside the regular 27J contract day. This may include Mondays, afternoons, evenings, and occasional additional commitments connected to staff selection, professional learning, or school planning. These individuals will begin as regular staff members for Rocky Vista High School in the 2027 - 2028 school year.
Why This Work Matters:
Rocky Vista's values will matter only if students and adults can experience them in the daily life of the school.
The Founding Teacher Leadership Team will help build the bridge between what we believe and how Rocky Vista operates. If you want to help build a school where students are known, challenged, supported, and believed in, we invite you to apply.
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