Posted: 18-May-26
Location: Washington, D.C.
Type: Contract
Salary Details:
Preferred Education:
Capitol Hill Day School seeks a Spanish teacher long-term substitute for the 2026-2027 academic year.
At Capitol Hill Day School, learning is challenging, engaging, playful, and relevant to the real world. Students learn across subjects with an experiential curriculum that integrates academic subjects and the arts, physical education, service learning, and technology. Through an extensive field education program, students take part in experiences beyond the classroom related to topics of study. Teachers collaborate in developing, planning, and implementing curriculum; school-wide, they create a spirit of camaraderie through their interactions with students, parents, and other members of the staff. Also essential to the School’s program is its commitment to diversity, ensuring that students from varying backgrounds, cultures, and learning styles learn from and with each other. Emphasis is placed on building a classroom community that respects each individual while teaching children how to become caring, engaged members of the group.
Capitol Hill Day School seeks a long-term Spanish substitute teacher. Capitol Hill Day School offers Spanish classes to students beginning in their pre-kindergarten year and continuing through 8th grade. Our language instruction is proficiency-based with a strong emphasis in comprehensible input. This is an interim position, opening at the end of September 2026 and running through February 2027, resulting from a family leave vacancy.
Requirements
Spanish proficiency is essential. Master’s degree and/or extensive language teaching experience; understanding of child development preferred.
Differences in religion, socio-economic status, racial and cultural heritage, sexual orientation, and gender identity and expression create the opportunity for people to learn from each other as they learn with each other. As such, Capitol Hill Day School provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, termination, compensation, and training.
