Elementary School: 2nd Grade Lead Teacher - Greater Boston (2026-2027)

KIPP • Lynn, MA

4d • $55,000 - $89,500 • Onsite

About The Position

KIPP Academy Lynn Charter School is seeking talented, committed, and culturally competent lead teachers to create a school experience that affirms, values, and challenges students daily. The goal is to foster a professional and authentic environment of joy, excellence, care, and community where educators can achieve long-term transformative outcomes for students. This role involves creating a positive and safe learning environment, preparing rigorous and engaging lessons, analyzing student work to inform instruction, and maintaining strong communication with students and families. Teachers will also participate in school-wide and professional development, collaborate with colleagues, and embody KIPP MA’s Code of Conduct.

Requirements

• Deep alignment with KIPP MA’s mission and values, including the unwavering belief in the high potential of all students.
• Demonstrated ability to drive student growth and achievement and to create a warm, inclusive, rigorous learning environment.
• Passion for subject/content area and demonstrated commitment to professional learning.
• 2+ years of full-time teaching experience.
• Bachelor’s Degree required.
• Pass Criminal Background Check.

Nice To Haves

• Obtain required MTEL and SEI endorsements with financial support from KIPP MA within the first year of employment in addition to free study support.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a lead or co-lead in a classroom, potentially leading independently, co-teaching, covering classes, or stepping into a lead role later in the year.
• Ensure all children are affirmed, valued, and challenged every day.
• Foster a positive and safe learning environment.
• Prepare and internalize rigorous and engaging unit and daily lessons, leveraging provided curricula/resources and intellectual preparation tools.
• Create and internalize academically aligned lesson plans, unit plans, rubrics, and assessments (when applicable).
• Set specific, ambitious growth goals with all students and identify and leverage necessary resources to ensure they meet them.
• Innovate on best practices to execute engaging, differentiated instruction at a level rigorous for all students.
• Implement aligned school-wide or grade-level student culture systems and proactive classroom management strategies.
• Regularly analyze student work and academic data to modify lessons, refine curricula, and inform instructional practice.
• Maintain accurate, up-to-date student grades/records and initiate strong lines of communication with students and their families regularly regarding students’ growth and progress.
• Obtain required MTEL and SEI endorsements with financial support from KIPP MA within the first year of employment.
• Participate in school-wide and individual professional development, including pre-service training over the summer and weekly during the academic year.
• Take ownership for the development of your craft seeking and implementing feedback from your coach and collaborating with teammates.
• Perform assigned duties including classroom coverage, bus, lunch, transition, and dismissal duties.
• Develop strong relationships with families through participation in school events and consistent communication.
• Offer support and receive constructive feedback from colleagues to create a professional working atmosphere.
• Collaborate with grade level and content teams to tackle common challenges and implement grade-wide systems.
• Maintain dependable attendance according to the school calendar and initiate proactive communication when attendance barriers arise.
• Embody KIPP MA’s Code of Conduct.
• Participate and engage in regional professional development and community events as required.
• Collect and interpret data, evaluate, reason, define problems, establish facts, draw valid conclusions, and make reasonable judgments and decisions in a timely manner.
• Utilize self-awareness, flexibility, and emotional intelligence to navigate a setting with students who express diverse needs.
• Consistently use interpersonal and self-management skills to effectively support behavioral and emotional needs of students and build relationships and manage conflict.
• Communicate effectively in person, through written communication, in front of groups, and on virtual platforms.
• Demonstrate physical mobility to execute duties effectively, which may include kneeling, walking, pushing/pulling, squatting, twisting, turning, bending, stooping and reaching overhead.
• Possess physical strength sufficient to periodically lift and/or carry 20 pounds of materials or supplies and to physically restrain a student in an emergency situation.
• Exhibit manual dexterity sufficient to perform repetitive hand/wrist/arm motions and to operate a computer and office equipment.
• Engage in other duties as assigned to promote a positive and calm learning environment and culture.

Benefits

• Minimum base salary: $55,000 to $89,500 (per 1.0 FTE/45 hours per week), depending upon years of relevant experience after Bachelor's degree and any advanced degrees (+$3,000 for 1st advanced degree and +$1,500 for 2nd advanced degree).
• $1,000 signing bonus.
• Annual $2,000 retention bonus in subsequent years.
• Other bonuses, when eligible.
• School Year calendar.
• Financial support for MTEL and SEI endorsements.
• Free study support for MTEL and SEI endorsements.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level