CAREER OPPORTUNITIES
Peconic Community School welcomes hands-on, compassionate educators dedicated to learner-centered education.
Spanish Facilitator (Early Childhood - Grade 8)
Start Date: January 2027 | Part-time position | Approximately 15 hours/week, with opportunity for additional paid hours with our afterschool enrichment program.
Salary Range: Compensation: $25–$35 per hour, commensurate with experience.
The Role
Peconic Community School (PCS) is looking for a Spanish Facilitator to teach our existing EC3/4 through Grade 8 Spanish program, continuing and deepening the work already in place. This is a part-time teaching position, approximately 15 hours a week: a weekly 30-minute session for each early childhood group, one 45-minute session for Kindergarten, two 45-minute sessions for grades 1 and 2, two 45-minute sessions for grades 3 through 5, and three 45-minute sessions for our 6 to 8 group.
Working with students from EC 3/4 through Grade 8, the Spanish Facilitator emphasizes meaningful communication over memorization. In addition to developing language acquisition skills, the Spanish curriculum connects with and enriches PCS's interdisciplinary Integrated Studies units, allowing students to apply their language learning in meaningful contexts. Instruction includes conversation, storytelling, music, movement, and games in the younger grades, progressing toward more structured grammar instruction and authentic reading and writing as students grow. Cultural learning is woven throughout the curriculum through our ongoing Flight units, an annual immersive journey to a Spanish-speaking country or region, and meaningful connections to our North Fork community.
By the end of 8th grade, students are working toward the NYS Checkpoint A proficiency benchmark: Novice-Mid as the reliable outcome, Novice-High as a stretch goal for students with the strongest foundation coming in. Getting there means a more systematic progression through verb tenses in the middle school years, building on what students already bring with them from earlier grades.
What You'll Do
Teach Spanish across EC3/4 through Grade 8 on the schedule above.
Develop listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills in age-appropriate ways, from songs and play early on to a real grammar sequence by middle school.
Build upon established curricular experiences, including our Flight units and connections to our interdisciplinary Integrated Studies units, while bringing your own creativity, expertise, and ideas to strengthen and evolve the Spanish program.
Assess growth through authentic tasks and ongoing observation, distilled into narrative reporting each term.
Communicate with families about student progress.
Attend faculty meetings and community events as your schedule allows.
Additional Paid Hours
There are opportunities for the Spanish Facilitator to teach classes in PCS's Afterschool Enrichment Program. This work would be separate from the Spanish Facilitator role and compensated in addition to the position described above. Specific teaching opportunities, schedules, and compensation can be discussed based on the candidate’s interests and availability, as well as the school’s programming needs.
Who You Are
Fluent in Spanish and English, with experience teaching elementary and middle school students. Comfortable moving across a wide age range in a single day, sometimes teaching multiple grade levels back to back. Collaborative, but able to plan and run sessions largely independently. Excited to inherit and grow an existing program rather than build one from nothing.
We recognize there are many pathways to becoming an exceptional educator. If you're excited by this opportunity but don't meet every qualification, we encourage you to apply.
Why Peconic Community School?
Peconic Community School is a progressive, learner-centered independent school serving students in Early Childhood through Grade 8 on the North Fork of Long Island. We are a small, close-knit learning community where every child is known, valued, and supported. With class sizes ranging from 8 to 16 students, our facilitators can build deep relationships with learners and tailor instruction to each child's unique strengths, interests, and needs.
We believe children learn best when they are known, challenged, and inspired. Our facilitators collaborate to design meaningful learning experiences that cultivate curiosity, compassion, creativity, critical thinking, and a lifelong love of learning.
At PCS, the North Fork is an extension of our campus. Local farms, beaches, artists, scientists, entrepreneurs, historians, and community organizations become partners in learning. We seek educators who view the world as the classroom and who are excited to help students make meaningful connections between what they learn in school and the lives they lead beyond it.
If you're excited about joining a collaborative faculty and inspiring young people to discover the power of language to connect people, ideas, and cultures, we'd love to hear from you.
How to apply
Please submit a resume and brief letter of interest to info@peconiccommunityschool.org.
Currently Seeking Substitute Teachers
Peconic Community School is seeking loving, warm, flexible substitute teachers who love children of all ages and can seamlessly step into our interactive and dynamic classrooms. The ideal candidates will follow the substitute plans and embrace our progressive approach to education. Substitutes will help maintain a nurturing, compassionate and collaborative learning environment for our students. Bachelor's degree and previous experience working with children preferred.
Compensation: $175/day.
How to Apply:
Interested candidates should submit a cover letter, resume, and a brief statement of educational philosophy to info@peconiccommunityschool.org. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis until the position is filled.
Join us in shaping a learning community where children are inspired to make a difference in the world!
Peconic Community School does not discriminate in its hiring practices on the basis of race, religion, sex, age, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identification, socio-economic status or physical or mental ability. Peconic Community School is committed to diversifying the school community, including the board of trustees, the teachers and staff, and the students through targeted recruitment and non-discriminatory practices.
