5th Grade Content Leads (SY26-27, Middle School)

Veritas Prep • Springfield, MA

2d • $3,000 • Onsite

About The Position

The Content Lead is a teacher leader who collaborates closely with the Principal and Assistant Principal. They are responsible for creating a culture of high academic expectations and ensuring teacher support and development around teaching and learning, including lesson planning and data-informed practices. The Content Lead receives a stipend for additional work outside of their teaching role and hours.

Requirements

• Ability to hold a high bar for grade-level academic standards and academic performance.
• Ability to collaborate across teams (culture, operations, etc.).
• Ability to utilize data to make decisions.
• Ability to positively influence and support peers.
• Commitment to creating clear, simple systems for organization.
• Solutions-oriented mindset when navigating challenges.
• Excitement to grow one’s leadership skills with a community of other teacher leaders.
• Willingness to learn from and alongside other grade level leads.
• Ability to take feedback in order to improve one’s meeting facilitation skills.
• Ability to see themselves as a change agent who can influence the practices of peers.
• Commitment to anti-racism and ability to utilize the Veritas Anti-Racism Standards to promote change.

Responsibilities

• Lead weekly planning meetings to support teachers in their intellectual preparation and understanding of targeted standards for a unit.
• Lead unit launches to ensure the team utilizes backwards planning, is grounded in exemplars, and prioritizes appropriate standards.
• Collaborate with an AP to prioritize pacing for the unit and clarify where individual teacher choice points exist in daily lesson plans.
• Model the use of exemplars to drive discussions about planning.
• Utilize an anti-racist lens when facilitating discussions about curriculum, instruction, and planning.
• Use the See It, Name It, Do It structure to facilitate weekly data meetings grounded in standards and student work.
• Support the team in prioritizing which student assignments to review each week.
• Actively use Jumprope to understand trends in student learning and mastery of standards.
• Collaborate with an AP to identify strengths and gaps in student learning.
• Keep academic goals front and center and report out regularly to the team around progress and challenges.
• Utilize an anti-racist lens when looking at data to help identify equity strengths and gaps, ensuring student data compilations, meetings, and reports provide data for subgroups including but not limited to race, gender, language learners, and students with learning disabilities.
• Ensure the team has access to curriculum materials, unit and daily lesson plans, and all assessments.
• Create a curriculum and assessment calendar in close collaboration with an AP so teachers know what to teach when and are prepared for administration of assessments.
• Collaborate with the Director of Operations and/or AP around test administration.
• Keep Dropbox and/or Google drive organized so teachers can easily access needed materials.
• Ensure teachers are clear about priority standards and key resources to use for tutoring.
• Internalize Veritas Anti-Racism Standards and utilize them to ensure curriculum reflects students’ lives and that assessments are intentionally developed and selected with anti-racism principles in mind.
• Be available to support teachers who need extra guidance around intellectual prep.
• Effectively communicate clear grade-level academic goals at each meeting.
• Ensure space for multiple voices/perspectives at all grade-level meetings while also being transparent about decision-making, leading to concrete decisions, next steps, and progress toward goals.
• Model positive, assets-based communication around student strengths and growth areas.
• Use the delegation cycle effectively to ensure team has access to curriculum and assessment materials and resources they need.
• Send weekly forecasting emails or meetings to help teams prioritize and manage the workflow.
• Encourage team collaboration around anti-racism and equity work at Veritas using key tools such as the Veritas Anti-racism Standards and the Teaching for Equity Framework from Leading Educators.
• Model how to effectively partner with Special Education and MLL Teachers to support student needs.
• Support team members in learning how to navigate and utilize tech platforms.
• Model a solutions-oriented mindset when tackling challenging issues and decisions.
• Ensure assessment and consideration of preferences, traditions, and requirements as it relates to team meetings, workflows, and delegation.
• Develop skills around facilitating difficult conversations.

Benefits

• $3,000 stipend
• Training and coaching from the APs and/or the Principal
• Regular feedback from peers around facilitation
• Access to additional professional development from outside providers

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed