Band Enrichment Teacher

KIPP • New Orleans, LA

4d • Onsite

About The Position

KIPP New Orleans Schools is hiring a Band Enrichment Teacher to support its mission of building academically excellent schools and creating opportunity for students. The role involves delivering rigorous, standards-aligned instruction, adapting lessons to student needs, using assessment data to guide teaching, and fostering a safe, joyful, inclusive classroom culture. The teacher builds relationships with students and families, collaborates with colleagues and support staff, participates in professional learning, and upholds school-wide operational, safety, compliance, and data-privacy expectations. This is a full-time, 100% on-site position with regular hours Monday through Friday established with the supervisor. Occasional evening and weekend work may be required. The opening is immediate.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree.
• Personal affinity to KIPP New Orleans Schools’ mission and vision and demonstrated commitment to its five core beliefs: Relentlessness, Elevation, Achievement, Community, and Hope.
• Successful completion of a professional reference check, proof of identity and work authorization, a state background check, and verification of teaching experience.
• Current authorization to work in the United States for any employer.
• Ability to communicate information and ideas effectively, including in noisy settings.
• Ability to observe details at close range and maintain visual attention and mental concentration for significant periods.
• Ability to meet classroom teaching physical demands, including standing, circulating, occasional lifting or moving of classroom materials, and extended sitting and computer work.
• Ability to safely lift and move up to 30 pounds independently.
• Willingness and ability to travel to other school facilities using personal transportation when duties require.

Nice To Haves

• At least two years of teaching experience in urban, open-enrollment schools.
• Demonstrated success raising student achievement outcomes.
• State-issued teaching credential.

Responsibilities

• Deliver rigorous, standards-aligned instruction using high-quality instructional materials; communicate objectives and success criteria and check for understanding.
• Plan and adapt units and lessons to develop conceptual understanding and fluency, aligning tasks and rubrics to standards.
• Analyze student work and assessment data to reteach, spiral, extend learning, and plan instruction.
• Differentiate instruction and provide accommodations and modifications for students with IEPs or 504 plans in coordination with DSS and ESL staff.
• Structure purposeful independent practice, small groups, centers, and peer discourse.
• Provide timely, actionable feedback; maintain accurate grades and make-up work systems.
• Design and implement common assessments and use exemplars to support calibration.
• Establish safe, joyful classroom routines and maximize learning time.
• Apply school-wide behavior systems consistently and restoratively; use de-escalation and restorative conversations and document incidents.
• Integrate social-emotional learning and proactively teach self-management and replacement behaviors.
• Build relationships with students and families through frequent, strengths-based communication and shared goals.
• Communicate student progress and participate in family conferences and school events.
• Model school values and professionalism, meet deadlines, and fulfill duty coverage and supervision responsibilities.
• Set ambitious goals, track student progress, welcome coaching, implement feedback, and reflect on student work.
• Participate in professional development, professional learning communities, and data meetings; contribute plans, assessments, and student work.
• Plan for access and rigor for multilingual learners, students with disabilities, advanced learners, and newcomers or SLIFE.
• Review outcomes and discipline data to address disproportionality and create opportunities for student and family voice.
• Follow IEP/504 requirements, testing procedures, documentation deadlines, lesson-planning and grading systems, and student-data privacy requirements.
• Follow health and safety procedures, mandatory reporting requirements, crisis drills, and supervision routines.
• Maintain reliable attendance and punctuality, submit leave according to policy, and maintain coverage plans.

Benefits

• 403(b) retirement plan with a 100% match on employee contributions up to the first 5% of salary and any bonuses; immediate vesting.
• Health and wellbeing benefits beginning the first day of the month following the date of hire.
• Customizable health coverage, including disability, life insurance, hospital indemnity, and health and dependent-care FSAs.
• Free dental and vision coverage for employees.
• Approximately 30 paid holidays and additional paid time off.
• Ongoing professional development opportunities.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time