Reading Specialist ELA Intervention Teacher for Elementary Middle School

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Why Our School is Special

We mesh practices of America’s top-performing charter school operators with teacher supports that are designed to avoid teacher burnout.

Our model is working. Our fun and joyful school climate has produced enviably high scholar and teacher retention throughout the years.

Teacher Responsibilities

We are currently hiring both an Intervention Teacher for Mathematics and a Reading Specialist at the Upper Elementary/Middle School Level.

Values, Expectations, and Commitment Teachers must commit themselves to the School’s values and mission. Moreover, appreciating the example of excellent schools which succeed at helping all students achieve at a high level, teachers must hold high expectations for each student and commit themselves to helping every student achieve their full potential.

Student Learning Every teacher must accept ultimate responsibility for his or her students achieving learning progress that meets or exceeds the School's high standards and must actively develop solutions to problems, reaching out for peer and leader support, and taking advantage of other school resources, as necessary.

Teaching and AssessmentTeachers may make use of school-provided curricular materials, or they may design their own, but they must plan and deliver vibrant and engaging lessons – each with a measureable goal – within the framework of the School’s carefully sequenced, standards-aligned education program and they must administer school-provided formative assessments on a regular basis so instruction can be targeted to their students' needs.

Culture and Classroom ManagementTeachers must communicate, and also model for their students, behaviors which befit the high expectations culture and the caring school climate to which we are committed. They must apply School and classroom rules consistently and effectively; make use of preventive discipline; and effectively supervise students both in their classroom and elsewhere on School grounds.

Teamwork, Professional Relations, and Professional DevelopmentTeachers should see themselves as members of a team and should commit themselves to their own and to their peers’ on-going professional development. Teachers will be required to attend professional development sessions, to participate actively in planning meetings, and to become part of a professional learning community where they can lend assistance to, and gain assistance from, their grade-level peers.

Special Needs Students and English Language LearnersTeachers must work collaboratively with the school’s special education and ELL staff to implement the school’s special education and ELL programs and to comply with all state and federal regulations.

Reporting and Staff Relationships

Teachers will report to the Academic Dean, who will provide considerable supervision and assistance, supported by the Dean of Students and the Supervisor of Special Education.

Teachers will be part of a school-wide team that includes many different professionals, but should expect to work particularly closely with their grade-level peers, with whom they will be engaged within professional learning communities, assisting one another to solve problems.

Teacher Supports

Supports provided to teachers will include:

• A teacher coach, career-long professional development assistance and grade-level professional learning community support;
• A research-based curriculum and supporting curricular materials (you will have the freedom to develop your own, but after a full day in the classroom, you may appreciate not always having to develop learning objectives and curricular resources from scratch);
• High-quality formative assessments, aligned with our curriculum, that will help you immediately identify when students in your class have not achieved mastery of a skill, concept, or knowledge item;
• Abundant planning periods that provide teachers an opportunity to prepare up-coming lessons during the school day;
• Subject and student support specialists who will team with you to ensure that 100% of your scholars succeed;
• The staffing of our afterschool program by Academic Tutors, so we can limit the length of our teachers’ work-days.

At minimum, candidates must hold a NJ Department of Education Teaching Certificate. Certificates that may be considered are Mathematics, English, K-6 with Content Specialty Add-On, or Reading Specialist. You MUST have the designated certificate in your content area to apply.

As equal opportunity employers, BelovED and Empowerment Academy hire without consideration to race, religion, creed, color, national origin, age, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, or disability.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $59,000-$70,000