Substitute Teacher 2025-2026

Rise Academy believes that every student deserves a promising future. Since 2003, Rise Academy has partnered with families in Richmond’s East End to address barriers to educational opportunities. We are a fully accredited, independent high school that provides a supportive environment that fosters students’ academic and personal success. With its integrated vocational learning and life skills classes, Rise Academy matches students’ God-given potential with opportunity as they ascend new heights on their journeys of discovery, education, and growth.

Substitute Teacher is an on-call paraprofessional level position that is part of the Rise Academy team. The incumbent will provide excellent classroom coverage of one to four class periods per day, in the event that a Rise Academy instructor is absent. The Substitute Teacher reports to the Principal and supervises no staff. The Substitute Teacher will be responsible for the education, safety, and care of up to 20 students.

Essential Duties

• Greet each student with dignity and respect.
• Take attendance and other necessary paperwork.
• Manage the classroom, including student behavior.
• Adhere to lesson plans to provide educational instruction.
• Requests assistance from staff as needed.

Approach 

• Compassionate and empathetic: caring for and honoring Rise Academy students and families and the East End community
• Creative and curious: developing new ways to accomplish work while seeking to understand the people and context involved
• Cultural competency: demonstrating strong interpersonal skills when communicating with and about diverse communities while building relationships and connections
• Initiative and good judgment: prioritizing projects using reliable information; anticipating, responding to, and solving problems
• Intentional and empathetic: honoring confidentiality and operating with a high level of respect and professionalism, acknowledging and addressing the tension between compliance and equity

Required Qualifications 

• Ability to attend work with as little as a few hours notice
• A Bachelor’s degree
• High school classroom teaching experience
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and command of the English language

Position Overview & Compensation

• Part-time and on-call
• Non-exempt
• Pay Rate: $16 per hour 
• Primary work location: 2010 Carlisle Avenue | Richmond, VA  23231 
• Work Schedule (As needed; when called)
  • School Year: usually mid-August to the beginning of June
  • Monday through Friday, when school is in session
  • 8:00 AM to 3:45 PM
• Free lunch provided

Special Conditions 

• VA State Police Criminal Records Check, including fingerprinting
• VA Department of Social Services Child Registry Search (Abuse/Neglect of children)
• Mandatory training
• Ability to climb stairs