ELA Teacher

Urban Assembly Charter School for Computer Science•New York City, NY

38d•$75,000 - $120,000

About The Position

Comp Sci High is a new public charter high school serving the South Bronx, enrolling its founding 9th grade class in August of 2018. Our founding team came together to start CSH because we believe that students in the Bronx can and will join the next generation of programmers, tech entrepreneurs, computer scientists, and overall become leading professionals with tech skills for any industry. We wanted to build a new kind of high school--a high school that truly prepares kids for their lives after graduation. We also wanted to build a community of adults with strong connections to each other, to kids and families, and to the Bronx community. We are looking for an inspiring, talented, visionary, and educator to join our amazing team, help us continue to build our school, and, one day, lead one of the citys best and most innovative high schools. Our Mission To ensure every student graduates with a college acceptance letter, high tech skills, real work experience, and a robust plan to turn those opportunities into a successful career where they will achieve the median income of the U.S. by the age of 25. Our Values and Beliefs At CSH, we value diverse views and ideas. But, we believe that every adult in our community needs to share a core set of values and beliefs in order to give our students and families the school they deserve. Our ELA Teacher will ensure our students develop and apply critical reading, writing, and thinking skills to fundamental areas to become better readers, writers and thinkers, public speakers, and achieve excellent exam and post-secondary success results. Our ELA Teacher will join a department that prepares every student to apply their knowledge to succeed in college and/or a career. Our ELA Teacher needs to be an excellent classroom teacher and have a passion for advanced literature and curriculum design. Teachers hours will be 8:15-4:30 daily, with the student academic day running from 9:00-1:30 on Wednesdays, and 9:00-4:30 on other days. Teachers may elect to lead an after-school extra-curricular club or coach a sport for an additional stipend. In the summer of the upcoming school year new teacher PD will begin around July 25th, and the school year will begin in late August.

Requirements

Experience teaching in an urban school, with a track record of excellent student growth
A passion for ELA/literature
Experience writing/designing curriculum and lesson
Experience differentiating for students of many abilities
A demonstrated commitment to working with BIPOC teens
A demonstrated commitment to working with teens
Willingness to learn more and incorporate tech skills
A demonstrated commitment to working with kids and having standards for them
who strive for excellence--who constantly push themselves, their colleagues, their school leaders, and their students to be better
who see and respect BIPOC students, different cultures, and kids from the Bronx
who exercise a level of self-awareness and introspection
who take onus and responsibility for shortcomings and who welcome feedback
who are willing to execute larger department, school-wide initiatives with consistency and fidelity
who are flexible and can pivot quickly
who are excited to engage with equity work and incorporate it into their teaching practice
who understand the importance of helping students to make connections with their content
who demonstrate time management and personal organization skills
who believe that all students can succeed, even if they learn at different rates and in different ways
who love to build community with students, families, and colleagues
who are excited by the idea of founding something new and innovative
who possess an entrepreneurial or founders mentality
who want to grow and develop in their careers

Responsibilities

Work with the Department Chair to improve on the 9th grade ELA program in order to deliver excellent results, teaches students to develop both their creative and expository writing skills, master editing techniques, merge historical content with modern themes in todays literature, and show students the connections between the humanities and technology
Teach four sections of 9th grade ELA, leveraging both class time and prep opportunities like Mock Exams and Saturday prep to ensure that 95%+ of students are on track to pass the ELA Regents Exam in 11th grade
Teach one section of 9th grade SETSS
Build strong relationships with students, families, and the Bronx community
Lead an advisory, supporting and mentoring 10-15 students and building close relationships with their families
Collaborate with faculty, students, and parents to build an innovative, exciting, and effective school model that achieves our mission and impacts education reform nationwide
Work closely with a co-teacher to develop lesson plans, provide students with grades and timely feedback, modify instruction, incorporate high leverage co-teaching models, utilize study data to inform lesson planning, schedule and attend regular planning and norming meetings, prepare for and attend IEP meetings
Attend regular 2x1 meetings with direct manager and co-teacher, attend 1x1 meetings with direct manager, attend weekly department meetings
Attend professional development opportunities both on campus and in collaboration with outside organizations
Incorporate equity into curriculum, lesson design, instruction
Collaborate with teachers across the Humanities department to execute on interdisciplinary initiatives and competency/standard alignment
Be receptive to receiving vertical and lateral feedback from colleagues as well as managers, and participate in the formal 360 review process