Holy Cross, South Bend - Junior High

Holy Cross Catholic School has been deeply committed to serving one of South Bend’s most diverse neighborhoods for nearly 100 years.

Holy Cross currently enrolls approximately 400 students in pre-Kindergarten through 8th grade. Committed to promoting bilingualism and outstanding educational programming to its diverse students, Holy Cross began a two-way Spanish immersion program in 2017 to complement its traditional English program.

The immersion program currently serves students in PreK through 5th grade, but will add a grade each year until the program extends from PreK through 8th grade.

The immersion program at Holy Cross School is committed to teaching faith, knowledge, language and culture, as well as serving balanced numbers of native English and native Spanish speaking students.

Holy Cross School’s two-way immersion program adheres to the 90-10 immersion model and aims to educate students to be fully bilingual and biliterate, i.

e., able to speak, read, and write with equal competency in both English and Spanish. We invite skilled, passionate, and creative educators to join our transformative learning community.

Holy Cross School is seeking a Junior High (6th-8th grade) Spanish Language Arts teacher who is fully fluent in Spanish for its two-way Spanish immersion program in the 2024-2025 school year.

Candidates must be able to fulfill all teaching description requirements of the Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend as well as be fully bilingual in Spanish (advanced-high to superior level, if non-native speaker).

Highly qualified candidates demonstrate strong written and oral communication skills and a marked commitment to teaching faith, knowledge, language, and culture with adeptness, sensitivity, and passion.

Major duties and responsibilities include : teaching all subjects utilizing the diocesan curriculum and state benchmarks, developing unit and lesson plans, providing individualized, small group, and large group instruction in order to meet the needs of each student, attending immersion program and school professional development training, assessing students’ academic and social growth, keeping records of student progress and communicating progress with families, maintaining procedures, routines, and standards of student behavior, managing a safe and nurturing classroom environment, performing various non-instructional duties (i.

e. attendance, lunch count, recess, etc.), attending professional development growth activities on a regular basis, and participating in committee work, family activities, and sponsored student activities.

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