Assistant or Associate Professor, Multilingual Education - Bellingham, United States - Western Washington University

Description

Position Title Assistant or Associate Professor, Multilingual Education / Dual Language - Tenure Track Multiple Positions
About the University
Western Washington University, with over 16,000 students in seven colleges and the graduate school, is nationally recognized for its educational programs, students and faculty. The campus is located in Bellingham, Washington, a coastal community of 90,000 overlooking Bellingham Bay, the San Juan Islands and the North Cascades Mountain range. The city lies 90 miles north of Seattle and 60 miles south of Vancouver, British Columbia. Western is the highest-ranking public, master's-granting university in the Pacific Northwest, according to the 2022 U.S. News & World Report rankings.

Western Washington University is committed to achieving excellence through advancing inclusive success, increasing our Washington impact, and focusing on transformational education grounded in the liberal arts and sciences and based on innovative scholarship, research, and creative activity. Western's greatest strength is the outstanding students, faculty, staff, and alumni/ae who make up its community. Western supports an inclusive governance structure for all and provides a learning and working environment in which everyone can thrive. In pursuit of this excellence, individual employees are expected to establish and maintain productive and effective inclusive working relationships amongst diverse populations including staff, faculty, administration, student, and external constituents. Further, individual employees are expected to have the ability to operationalize sustainability concepts (economic, societal, environmental) into all aspects of performing their job duties.

About the Department Woodring College of Education supports Western's mission, which states that together with our students, staff, and faculty, we are committed to making a positive impact in the state and the world with a shared focus on academic excellence and inclusive achievement. WWU's commitment to institutionalizing inclusive practices seeks to ensure that we welcome and celebrate the intrinsic worth of all members of our community. We will become an even stronger university as we enhance equity at every level of our institution. We encourage applications from women, BIPOC, people with disabilities, LGBTQ+ individuals, veterans, and other candidates from underrepresented backgrounds and with diverse experiences interested in this opportunity.
About the Position Woodring College of Education invites individuals with dual language / multilingual education experience and a demonstrated commitment to social justice to apply for tenure-track appointment as an Assistant or Associate Professor in the Multilingual Education (MLE) Program. We are seeking 3 MLE tenure track faculty members with complementary expertise to join with experienced MLE faculty and school partners across locations to collaboratively expand our dual language residency programs supporting paraeducators to become teachers. These are unique faculty positions for teacher-scholars who have the ability and desire to partner with schools to develop teachers who come from the communities in which they will teach. This collaboration between the university and schools is intended to simultaneously enhance the quality of education for multilingual learners while also developing multilingual teachers. We are seeking applicants with varied expertise in multilingual education to work collaboratively with diverse stakeholders in culturally and linguistically diverse communities and schools. We strongly encourage applications from members of groups who have been, and still are underrepresented in university faculty positions. All 3 positions are for nine-month appointment, and anticipated to begin Fall 2024, with possible opportunities for summer employment. Candidates hired into the associate professor rank (pre-tenure) may have an expedited timeline to tenure.
Washington State's Superintendent of Public Instruction has established the goal of ensuring "statewide access to dual language education to all students by 2040." The Multilingual Education (MLE) Program at Western Washington University is responding to this call to grow capacity for dual language education in the State through innovative, residency-based, Grow-your-own (GYO) programming. We invite you to be part of recruiting, preparing, and supporting - in active collaboration with our partner school districts and Educational Service Districts (ESD) - a diverse generation of multilingual, equity-centered teachers prepared to work in dual language settings.

Two of the positions will be based in South King County (Renton, WA), in one of the most linguistically diverse regions in the country. This site currently houses two residency programs; a nationally recognized Bachelor of Arts in Education, which prepares future elementary teachers to work in dual language and multilingual settings, and a Masters in Teaching (MIT), which combines content-area and bilingual education licensure for future secondary teachers. In 2024, we will be collaborating with the Educational Leadership and Inclusive Teaching (ELIT) Department to introduce a new BAE in Bilingual Special Education. Candidates in these programs work in one of our six partner districts during the day, typically in paraeducator positions, and take courses during evenings, Saturdays, and in hybrid formats. For the third position, we will be hiring the first of three Tenure line positions for a new Bilingual Elementary Education residency program based in Snohomish County, Washington (Cohort 1 to begin in Summer The location of this new program is still being finalized (possibly Everett, WA or another location along the I-5 corridor in Snohomish County).

All new faculty will be supported by and work in collaboration with experienced MLE faculty from the Bellingham campus and their positions will be located in the Early Childhood, Elementary and Multilingual Education Department of Western Washington University. Information about the WWU Multilingual Education Program and South Seattle Multilingual Faculty Fellows Program can be found at: and

Responsibilities:

Engage in extensive collaborative work with our partner districts to build and sustain residency model programs.

Teach undergraduate and graduate courses - some field-based - with a focus on one or more of the following broad areas:

-Literacy/Biliteracy

-Language acquisition (simultaneous & sequential)

-Bilingual special education

-Teaching methods for culturally and linguistically diverse students

-Dual-language/bilingual education

-Translanguaging pedagogies

-Family and community engagement

-Culturally and linguistically responsive assessment practices

-Disciplinary language and literacy

Refine and develop new courses and programmatic efforts in collaboration with the MLE faculty team.

Maintain an active and visible program of applied scholarship and research in one of areas of multilingual education identified in this position announcement.

Participate and collaborate with colleagues in service and leadership within the program, department, college, university, community, state, and in professional organizations.

Advise and recruit students in collaboration with South King County or Snohomish County site leadership teams (mix of faculty and staff), partner districts, and regional Educational Service Districts.

Supervise students in community-based, sovereign tribal nation, and/or school-based practica and internship settings.

Required Qualifications
Earned doctorate at time of application or ABD at time of application in Multilingual Education or related field. If ABD, all degree requirements must be completed by June 15th of the first year of employment (e.g., for a September 2024 start date, all degree requirements must be completed by June 15, 2025).
Scholarly record or demonstrated scholarly potential sufficient to warrant appointment at the tenure-track assistant professor rank.
A minimum of 3 years of K-12 teaching experience.
Experience or potential to teach and develop courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels in one or more of the focus areas (listed above) with a social justice and culturally sustaining orientation.
Demonstrated experience and skill working with multilingual learners in K-12 and/or higher education settings and with diverse students, staff, and constituents, particularly those from historically marginalized communities.
For appointment at the tenure-track Associate Professor level (without tenure), demonstrated significant research and evidence of successful teaching commensurate with standards for promotion to associate professor in the department, college and university.
Preferred Qualifications
A demonstrated record of scholarly research, including grant-funded research, in the area of Multilingual Education or closely related field.
Experience working with residency-based and/or grow-your-own (GYO) district partnership teacher education programs.
Demonstrated experience in successful teaching in higher education settings which include face to face, hybrid and online educational options.
The ability to communicate fluently orally and in writing in two or more languages.
Experience teaching in P-12 dual-language bilingual education, immersion, and/or world language education settings.
Leadership and demonstrated impact in innovative school/community/sovereign tribal nation and university partnerships.
Record of ability to foster school and community partnerships and engage in learning collaboratively with students, families, school and community partners and colleagues.

Salary

The starting salary range for assistant professor appointment, tenure-track is generally between $74,000-$77,000, with placement within the position's salary range being based on qualifications and professional experience. The entire salary range for the assistant professor position is $74,000 - $83,000, with the upper end of the salary range typically being achieved through collectively bargained salary adjustments.

The starting salary range for associate professor appointment, tenure-track is generally between $77,000-$80,500. The entire salary range for the associate professor position is $77,000-$93,000 with the upper end of the salary range typically being achieved through collectively bargained salary adjustments.