Virtual Arkansas ELA Teacher

Position Type: Teacher Job Title: Virtual Arkansas ELA Teacher Reports to: Virtual Arkansas Principal Location: Arch Ford Educational Service Cooperative; Telework from home office Contract Length: 190, beginning the 2026-2027 school year Date Available: August 3, 2026 Date Posted: July 1, 2026 Closing Date: July 10, 2026 Essential Qualifications: Science of Reading level required: Awareness Arkansas Teacher's License: ELA license for 7-12 (052 - English; 166 - Eng Lang Arts; or 4031 - English Reg) with a Master’s Degree in English or Master’s degree in another subject with 18 graduate hours in English (to be approved by the partnering university) Arkansas residency required About Virtual Arkansas: Virtual Arkansas’s (VA) mission is to equip, engage, and empower students through unique digital opportunities. As Arkansas’s fully accredited state virtual program, we partner with local schools to provide course opportunities that might not otherwise be available with local resources. Virtual Arkansas is not an online school or a diploma-granting institution, but serves as a resource for supplementing the education of local students. Virtual Arkansas’s program is implemented through a partnership between the Arkansas Department of Education and the Arkansas Education Service Cooperatives. Virtual Arkansas offers a variety of instructional services, and teachers may be assigned to different services based on organizational needs. These assigned areas include: Content + Teacher Supplemental, Dedicated/Emergency Use, Division of Youth Services, Alternative Learning Environment, and/or the Learn Anywhere Academy. Additionally, teachers are not able to make course requests but are instead assigned within their licensure area by organizational need. Virtual Arkansas maintains a comprehensive catalog of courses that were created to fully align to the Arkansas Curriculum Standards or other learning outcomes defined by credit-granting entities, such as Advanced Placement or Inst