Join the 5280 High School Team

Transform yourself, the students you will serve, and the broader educational landscape.

 
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5280 High School is a free, public charter school in Denver Public Schools. 5280 emphasizes hands-on, project-based learning, adult-world connections and comprehensive wellness. Candidates should be open to a dynamic, collaborative, teacher-driven school where teachers have the freedom to design their curriculum, innovate, and make decisions to best serve their students. 

 
 

5280 Staff:

  • Collaborate as professionals and teacher leaders

  • Dream big with project design and school development

  • Learn alongside one another to create a loving, anti-oppressive, inclusive, trauma-informed environment

  • Work with creative and caring students

  • Help students in recovery discover, chase, and reach their dreams within a community learning to live out the principles of recovery in all aspects of their lives

5280 aims to attract passionate, highly qualified educators.  Teachers are not required to hold a teaching certificate, but must meet federal ESSA guidelines in their subject area.  Candidates with experience working in their field who do not hold a teaching credential are strongly encouraged to apply.  Offers of employment are contingent upon satisfaction of certain pre-employment verifications and clearances including, but not limited to, undergraduate degree verification and background check clearance. 

 

Working at 5280:

  • Full-time annual teacher contracts are typically written with approximately 200 contract days

  • Competitive compensation commensurate with experience; additional performance-based bonuses available to exceptional staff

  • Health benefits and Colorado PERA offered to eligible full-time employees

  • 5280 operates according to a traditional school calendar (August through May); new staff training and onboarding for the year begins in late July

  • 5280 provides team teaching support, and exceptional professional development opportunities throughout the year

  • 5280 High School is an at-will employer

 

If you have difficulty filling out the application or are interested in applying for multiple positions, please email our Executive Director at daniel.sullivan@5280highschool.org.

 
 

Equal Employment Opportunity Policy: 5280 is an equal opportunity employer. It is the policy of 5280 to afford equal employment and advancement opportunity to all qualified individuals without regard to race, creed, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy, age, disability, marital status, medical condition, or any other classification that is protected under applicable local, state or federal law.