SY26-27 Interventionist Lead Teacher

DC Prep • Washington, DC

13h • Onsite

About The Position

DC Prep is a high-performing network of public charter schools serving over 2,100 preschool through 8th-grade students across six campuses. The Interventionist Lead Teacher role focuses on facilitating students' academic, social, and emotional development, supporting team members' professional growth, and engaging families. DC Prep emphasizes a rigorous academic focus with standards-based instruction and daily targeted interventions, alongside social-emotional learning integrated into daily instruction. The organization is committed to reflection and refinement to ensure every student receives a transformative education. The DC Prep Way involves a supportive, stimulating, and professionally rewarding learning environment that continuously develops and motivates high-performing educators, fostering meaningful relationships between faculty and students, enabling excellent teaching, and promoting professional collaboration to achieve great outcomes for students.

Requirements

• 2+ years of lead teaching or special education experience in an urban public school with a record of high student achievement highly preferred.
• Bachelor’s degree from a competitive college or university required.
• Desire and willingness to do “whatever it takes” to support student achievement in traditionally under-served communities.
• Passion for connecting with students and families in support of student success.
• Extraordinary oral skills to effectively communicate with varied audiences.
• Comfort with and ability to write efficiently and effectively as part of a culture where curriculum writing, email communication, and documentation are critical.
• Superior analytical skills and sound judgment to make critical decisions autonomously.
• Capable of thriving in circumstances involving ambiguity and nuance.
• Meticulous organizational ability in order to set priorities, organize workload, handle multiple responsibilities and meet deadlines.
• Emotional constancy and extraordinary interpersonal skills to ensure purposeful and professional colleague relationships.
• Positive attitude, maturity, and personal stability sufficient for a demanding position.
• Deep belief in DC Prep’s mission, values and commitment to diversity.

Nice To Haves

• Concentration or advanced degree in education or related field preferred.

Responsibilities

• Planning thoughtfully and teaching joyously, adapting the rigorous, standards-based curriculum to meet the particular needs of students, including scaffolding rigorous learning and infusing the day with joy.
• Planning for both grade-level instruction and small-group instruction to meet students where they are.
• Using data intentionally to track progress towards ambitious goals by analyzing academic and classroom culture data to inform instruction and target focus areas.
• Investing in their own learning through weekly professional development opportunities, observations, and feedback conversations.
• Working collaboratively and flexibly with colleagues to ensure all students experience success in the classroom, including daily planning, troubleshooting, and adapting approaches.
• Building mastery in a content area (starting in 3rd grade, schools are departmentalized; Preschool-2nd grade teachers build mastery in ELA and math).
• Embodying the DC Prep Way by contributing to a culture of high expectations and student achievement and promoting the DC Prep Way to students, families, and community members.
• Working closely with DC Prep’s school team to provide targeted daily supports to students receiving SPED and/or ELL interventions in small group and push-in settings.
• Building culture and developing relationships with families as a homeroom co-teacher in an inclusion classroom.
• Providing support to students using a variety of models tailored to individual student needs based on assessment data, including inclusion models, small group or one-on-one support, and daily targeted interventions for students with IEPs or ELL services.
• Performing clerical duties related to instructional supplies, student reports and records, attendance reports, and assessments.
• Regularly performing morning, lunch, and afternoon duties as assigned by the principal.
• Attending staff and student field trips, after-school events, family-teacher conferences, home visits, and other events involving parents and students as needed.

Benefits

• Highly competitive salary
• Comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, vision, short- and long-term disability insurance
• maternity, paternity, and adoption leave
• a 403b retirement plan

What This Job Offers

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