K-8 Teachers

Job Description

Sts. Peter and Paul is accepting applications for the 2025-2026 academic year for middle school and elementary school teaching positions (full-time, salaried when combined with an additional role).

Sts. Peter and Paul Catholic School is a Catholic liberal arts K-8 school within the Diocese of Tulsa.

Sts. Peter and Paul Catholic School is an apostolate of Sts. Peter and Paul Catholic Church which serves north Tulsa. The parish serves many families and offers Spanish Masses, English Masses, and Traditional Latin Masses.

As a Catholic school its primary mission is to help prepare students for Eternal Life. Through daily Mass and a rigorous integrated curriculum, we strive to form the hearts, minds, bodies, and souls of our students.

QUALIFICATIONS:
- Faithfulness to the moral and doctrinal teachings of the Catholic Church;
- Familiarity with Catholic Liberal Arts pedagogy and/or openness to learning about and implementing the same;
- Experience in Early Education;
- Bachelor's degree in a subject-area related to the position for which you apply;
- Certification or openness to certification in the area in which you will teach;
- Joyful Catholic who is inspired by a missionary spirit;
- Ability to cultivate a culture of virtue, holiness, joy, and wonder in the classroom and the community;
- Give witness to the full mission of the school in all aspects of professional and personal life;
- Capability of teaching well in multiple subject-areas while collaborating with colleagues;
- Ability to adapt teaching methods to a wide range of students;
- Effective planning skills and collaboration with administration and parents;
- Competency in teaching, pedagogical methods, and classroom management;
- Understand, appreciate, and implement order and discipline within the classroom - familiarity with the preventive system of St. John Bosco;
- Create a disciplined, organized, safe, open, and joyous learning environment;
- Work cooperatively and effectively with the administration and staff;
- Interact with students in a joyful, respectful, friendly, and just manner;
- Recognizing parents as the primary educators, creates and maintains positive and collaborative relationships with parents;
- Maintains professionalism in appearance, grooming, words, manners, and actions;
- Handles confidential situations, discipline, and/or sensitive information discreetly;
- Seeks professional growth opportunities in consultation with the school's administration;
- Maintains diocesan VIRTUS/CYP certification (ongoing throughout each year).

APPLICATION PROCESS:

Please email cover letter, CV, and a list of three references (two professional, one personal) directly to the Principal of Sts. Peter and Paul Catholic School, Thomas Cody McDonald
(principal@peterandpaultulsa.org) with a carbon copy to Mrs. Mayra Guajardo (guajardo@peterandpaultulsa.org)

About the Employer

The mission of Saints Peter and Paul Catholic School is primarily to teach our students to know, love and serve God in a thoroughly Catholic environment. Secondly, to cultivate lifelong learners with hearts of humility in their pursuit of truth, goodness and beauty.