In the 8-years I've been with LUMIN
have been a principal and the now I
I serve as the Director of Teacher Development
over those years we just had a lot of growth
a lot of change we really tried to look at
all of our different systems and models look
at our teaching staff what do they need what
do our students need and we tried to
make improvements as best as we can.
I think LUMIN
is a great place to start your career as
a brand new teacher we just have a lot of systems
in place a lot of supports to help you get started
we start first with a lot of
training up front in August just what the
classroom structures going to look like typically
in college you don't learn a lot about classroom management
and we focus a lot of our time there so
that you feel more ready and able
to think of different classroom
systems that can work for your students.
we have just
started a teacher advancement plan at LUMIN and
what that plan does is it really
helps our teachers look at their career their goals
what they want to get better at and and
learn more about whether that is a leadership role
within a school or maybe it's becoming a master
teacher maybe it's becoming better Mentor
for new teachers like a lot of
different ways and pathways but a teacher can grow in their own career.
I was just meeting with a teacher recently
and we
were just going over her reading workshop time and
how to take her first graders to the next level she's got
all of the basics in place so I said "You know what, I think
they might be ready for this next step
Can I just show you this resource?" and she was like
"Yes this is exactly what I was thinking they needed"
let me email it to you print it
let's go let's get them in the folders
let's get them started on this reading strategy
and she implemented immediately because
she knew it was a tip that could
take her teaching to the next level, but ultimately take
her kids to the next level.
What's really great about LUMIN being a
Network, well there's several reasons
that make it really great, I
think coming from a public school district there
are a lot of things that the district can help
you with but it also removes
you from that District Office
and what happens day-to-day. At
LUMIN we really really try the network team really tries
to be in the building supporting helping
teachers and helping Leaders with whatever they might
need whether the student and family services, whether
that's our curriculum and academic team
whether it's gathering data helping with those things
there's all kinds of ways that
our Network can help support I
think one of the biggest things that LUMIN
is really really really values and is
trying to use and get better at is
gathering feedback from staff. We gather
feedback from all staff every single
year twice a year and that feedback really
helps us to grow until learn and to adapt
and so if there's something that
as a network we need to do better or as a a school we need to do better
we really try to listen
to all of our staff members teachers, cafeteria
workers, admins
and whatever feedback they have for us
we really take that in and think of action steps of how to improve.
I think that really sets us apart
Whether you are new
to teaching or you've been teaching a while or
you've been thinking maybe I can make a difference in the life of
a child you should work for LUMIN Schools so
apply today!