Middle School: ELA Lead Teacher - Greater Boston (2026-2027)

KIPP • Lynn, MA

17h • $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 rigorous and engaging learning environment, managing classroom culture, analyzing student data, and communicating with families. Teachers will also participate in professional development, collaborate with colleagues, and embody KIPP MA's Code of Conduct. The position requires flexibility, emotional intelligence, and strong communication and interpersonal skills. Physical requirements include mobility, sufficient strength to lift/carry materials and potentially restrain students in emergencies, and manual dexterity for operating equipment.

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.

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 leverage necessary resources to ensure they meet them.
• Innovate on best practices to execute engaging, differentiated instruction at a rigorous level 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.
• Demonstrate ability to collect and interpret data, evaluate, reason, define problems, establish facts, draw valid conclusions, and make reasonable judgments and decisions.
• 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 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.
• Exhibit 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.
• Demonstrate 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

• Financial support for required MTEL and SEI endorsements.
• Free study support for MTEL and SEI endorsements.
• Experienced and dedicated leadership and staff support.
• Consistent school-wide systems and procedures (academic, behavioral, cultural, logistical).
• $1,000 signing bonus.
• $2,000 annual retention bonus in subsequent years.
• Other bonuses, when eligible.

What This Job Offers

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