Careers
Inspire Young Minds—Build Your Career at Lake Country Classical Academy.
Lake Country Classical Academy (LCCA) is an independent public charter school and is honored to be the first Hillsdale College Member School in Wisconsin. The Hillsdale K-12 curriculum provides the architecture for LCCA’s academic program that emphasizes a foundation in liberal and civic education and the core disciplines of math, science, history, and language arts, including phonics and writing, with attention to music, art, and foreign language.
Faculty and staff are employed by Lake Country Classical Academy, not by a local public school district. We hire without consideration to race, religion, creed, color, national origin, age, gender, marital status, veteran status, disability, or other legally prohibited form of discrimination.
Immediate Openings:

Job Description – Substitute Teacher
LCCA is building a growing team of regular substitute teachers that are knowledgeable about our students, curriculum, procedures, and teachers. This is a part-time, variable hour position and is not eligible for benefits. The work schedule is typically 8 hours for a full day or 4 hours for a half-day and may be at either of our campuses in Okauchee and Oconomowoc.
Applicants must either hold a current substitute or regular teaching license from the WI DPI or be able and willing to obtain a DPI Three-Year-Short-Term Substitute License. The license requires an Associate’s degree or higher from an accredited institution and appropriate training from LCCA.
Major Function
This is a classroom leadership position responsible for guided instruction and learning while following written plans for the day’s program of study. The substitute teacher ensures that the classroom and learning environment is welcoming, safe, and respectful. The substitute teacher collaborates with other teachers and administrators and communicates with parents and guardians when necessary. The substitute teacher assesses student learning and provides feedback to the regular classroom teacher.
Please submit your resume and/or application, along with proof of licensure (if currently hold).
- Establishing and maintaining a safe and secure classroom environment.
- Managing student misconduct promptly and resolving conflict and crises effectively.
- Using teaching and learning strategies that reflect each student’s culture, learning styles, special needs, and socioeconomic background.
- Using classroom processes that support effective teaching and learning to promote high student achievement, designing lessons to promote all students’ being engaged in learning all the time through such strategies as active learning, hands-on application, and teacher-student and student-student conversations about the learning.
- Using appropriate technology in teaching and learning processes, record keeping, assessment, evaluation, and performance analysis.
- Demonstrating positive classroom results and trends.
- Performing other related duties as required.
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree from a fully accredited college or university.
- Possession of, or eligibility for, a Wisconsin teaching certificate for the level and subject area to be taught.
- Preferred Wisconsin certification in the elementary education and/or the middle grades.
- Integrated curriculum (Grades 5-9) licenses.
Additional Qualifications
- Ability to demonstrate, uphold, and promote in daily interactions a commitment to LCCA’s mission and vision, and the moral character and civic virtue LCCA embodies.
2025 - 2026 Teacher Openings:

Career Application Submission Form
Interested applicants for all positions should download and complete the above Employment Application Form. A copy of your cover letter, application, and resume should be submitted to careers@lakecountryclassical.org.
LCCA is an equal opportunity employer. The organization is committed to providing equal opportunity for all individuals in all areas of recruitment, selection, placement, training, assignment, transfer, compensation, benefits, discipline, retention, and promotion. The board commits itself to the policy that there shall be no unlawful discrimination against any person because of race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, or disability. All decisions with regard to employment shall be in compliance with applicable state and federal laws.
