The Las Positas Community
Las Positas College provides an inclusive, learning-centered, equity-focused environment that offers educational opportunities and support for completion of students’ transfer, degree, and career-technical goals while promoting lifelong learning. At Las Positas College we know that equity will be achieved by changing the impacts of structural racism, ableism, homophobia, and systematic poverty on student success and access to higher education, achieved through continuous evaluation and improvement of all services. We believe in a high-quality education focused on learning and an inclusive, culturally-relevant environment that meets the diverse needs of all our students and staff. ​

Equity is parity in student educational outcomes; it places belonging for students of color and disproportionately impacted students at center focus. Our prized and emerging equity efforts include Puente, Umoja, ConnectUp, Brother 2 Brother, Sister 2 Sister, Black Student Union, Presidential Task Force on Systemic and Institutionalized Racism, the Presidential Speaker Series, Black Education Association, UndocuAlly Taskforce, curriculum reviews and a linguistic justice curriculum.

Located in Livermore, Las Positas College is becoming an institution that reflects the diversity in California. We are a learning-centered institution focused on excellence and student success, and are fully committed to supporting all Tri-Valley residents in their quest for education and advancement.

Joining Our College Community

We seek equity-minded applicants who demonstrate they understand the benefits diversity brings to an educational community. We look for applicants who:

1. Value and intentionally promote diversity and consciousness of difference

2. Demonstrate cultural humility and an ongoing desire to improve cultural competence
3. Are dedicated to addressing issues of social justice

4. Accept their shared role and responsibility in addressing opportunity and achievement gaps experienced by students

5. Have experience and success in closing student equity gaps and engaging in equitable practices, or are knowledgeable and enthusiastic about implementing practices that achieve these goals

6. Actively seek to identify, disrupt, and remove institutional and/or systemic barriers that adversely impact historically marginalized communities

7. Empower the underrepresented and underserved

8. Foster students’ potential to become global citizens and socially responsible leaders

9. Believe that all people have the right to an education and work environment free from fear, harassment, or discrimination

The Chabot-Las Positas Community College District is seeking to fill an Instructor, English for Las Positas College in Livermore, California.

This position reports directly to the Division Dean.

1. Teach reading, writing, literature and critical thinking courses in person and online.

2. Teach using contemporary methodologies of teaching reading, literature, and composition.

3. Apply the use of technology in the classroom.

4. Adapt contemporary methodologies and instructional techniques to distance learning.

5. Familiarity with the best practices for distance teaching and learning.

6. Evidence of sensitivity to and an understanding of the diverse academic, socioeconomic, cultural, and ethnic backgrounds of community college students, including those with physical or learning disabilities.

7. Demonstrate ability to apply knowledge of critical pedagogy to an equity-based teaching practice.

8. Use knowledge of the mission of California community colleges.

9. Teach early morning, late afternoon, evening, weekend, distance learning, and/or off-campus classes when scheduled as part of the regular teaching assignment.

10. Communicate effectively in both oral and written form.

11. Work collegially with faculty and staff within and outside of own department and division.

12. Participate in campus professional activities, which include, but are not limited to: development of curriculum and new instructional approaches, committee membership, staff meetings, and community outreach.

13. Teach student skills, reading, critical thinking, and composition to adults at the transfer level who have transfer and/or vocational educational goals.

14. Teach student skills, reading, critical thinking, and composition to adults with a wide variety of preparation who have transfer and/or vocational educational goals.

15. Ability to adapt instructional techniques to accommodate varied learning styles and abilities.

16. Ability to work in a cooperative, supportive, interdisciplinary manner.

Master’s in English, literature, comparative literature, or composition

OR Bachelor’s in any of the above

AND Master’s in linguistics, TESL, speech, education with a specialization in reading, creative writing or journalism

OR the equivalent.

You must upload all applicable transcripts, credentials, and/or certificates required to meet minimum qualification for the position for which you are applying. Any degrees earned outside the United States must have an official US Evaluation (course by course) of the transcripts and must be submitted with the application. The US evaluation must be done by a member of the NACES (https://www.naces.org/members). In the case that the file you are uploading is too large or you do not have the transcripts readily available, please upload a document in place stating you will be sending the documents to the CLPCCD District Office, Office of Human Resources, 7600 Dublin Boulevard, 3rd Floor, and Dublin, CA 94568 or by fax (925) 485-5254 by the closing date.

*Degrees in Progress: To be conferred on or before July 1, 2025 will be considered, provided that the applicant also submits (1) an up-to-date transcript, (2) a photocopy of the degree requirement from the school catalog, and (3) proof of current course(s) and enrollment. Please provide your explanation and background material by using the optional document upload called “Other Document”. If you are unable to upload the above, please upload a document in its place and state you will be sending the documents to the Office of Human Resources, 7600 Dublin Boulevard, 3rd Floor, Dublin, CA 94568, by 5:00 p.m. (PST) on the closing date.

Applicants applying under the “Equivalent provision” must provide details that explain at time of application how their academic preparation is the equivalent of the degree listed above. Please provide your explanation by using the optional document upload called “Equivalency Statement”.

Demonstrate sensitivity to and an understanding of the diverse academic, socioeconomic, cultural and ethnic backgrounds of community college students, including those with physical and/or learning disabilities.

1. Knowledge of literature by diverse authors and about diverse peoples and willingness to prioritize teaching these works.

2. Ability to teach literature to the diverse range of Las Positas College students in one or more of the following areas: African American, Asian/Pacific Islander American, Indigenous Peoples, Latinx, Middle Eastern, American literature.

3. Evidence of or training in teaching in the classroom at the community college, university, or secondary level in both the teaching of composition and literature.

4. Experience or training in “student-centered” teaching best practices rather than merely presenting material.

5. Preparation or willingness to take on leadership roles within the department and for the college

6. Experience in teaching online or familiarity with online learning management systems.

7. Willingness to stay current in writing instructional technologies, including computer assisted technologies and applications.

8. Knowledge and/or training in asset-based writing/linguistic justice or willingness to learn.

9. Ability, training, and/or willingness to teach in an affinity group learning community.

10. Experience teaching in and/or coordinating a writing lab/center or willingness to learn.

This position is full-time, tenure track, beginning Fall 2025. Employment will begin on or about August 14, 2025.

INDIVIDUALS WITH DISABILITIES WHO ARE UNABLE TO CARRY OUT THE PHYSICAL ACTIVITIES OF THE POSITION WILL RECEIVE REASONABLE ACCOMMODATIONS TO ENABLE THEM TO PERFORM THE ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS OF THE POSITION.

The Board of Trustees has updated Board Policy 7330 to incorporate information on COVID vaccination requirements, which are currently suspended. Accordingly, employee(s) must comply with the Board Policy found at:
http://districtazure.clpccd.org/policies/files/docs/BP7330.pdf.

The Chabot-Las Positas Community College District reserves the right to close or not fill any advertised position.

The purpose of the personal qualifications statement is for you to provide information on how your education and experience relate to the requirements and duties of the position. There is no form to complete. Applicants are requested to provide their personal qualifications statement by uploading a document, the same way as you do for your cover letter.

It is the policy of this District to provide equal opportunity in all areas of employment practices and to assure that there shall be no discrimination against any person on the basis of sex, ancestry, age, marital status, race, religious creed, mental disability, medical condition (including HIV and AIDS), color, national origin, physical disability, family or sexual preference status and other similar factors in compliance with Title IX, Sections 503 and 504 of the Rehabilitation Act, other federal and state non-discrimination regulations, and its own statements of philosophy of objectives. The District encourages the filing of applications by both sexes, ethnic minorities, and the disabled.