Physical Education and Health Teacher 2026-2027

Cleveland Metropolitan School District

2d•Onsite

About The Position

The Cleveland Metropolitan School District (CMSD) is Ohio's third-largest public school system, serving more than 35,000 students. CMSD strives to ensure that every child receives a high-quality education, regardless of the provider. To that end, CMSD lets families choose which District schools their children attend, with options that include STEM, the arts, single-gender education, International Baccalaureate, Montessori, and early college. Our schools have autonomy over human and financial resources in exchange for accountability for performance. The principal has primary responsibility and accountability for establishing their school as a high-quality, high-expectation academic center focusing on personalized instruction, professional support for teachers, and school-wide practices that lead to measurable results. CMSD ensures that students have access to technology and training to prepare them for the future. The District provides a free laptop or tablet for every student and connects every family that needs internet access. Graduating seniors leave commencement with not only a diploma but also a laptop. In our pursuit of a more fair, just, and good system of education, we strive to ensure that all of our learners, both scholars and educators, to be challenged with academically and intellectually complex tasks that are worthy of their efforts and provide them opportunities to demonstrate their best work. BUILDING BRIGHTER FUTURES The Cleveland Board of Education adopted the Building Brighter Futures (BBF) initiative on December 9, 2025. Building Brighter Futures is a strategic and data-driven plan shaped by more than a year of community engagement, information analysis, and thoughtful deliberation. The goal of this plan is to strengthen enrollment and ensure scholars attend a newer school building that offers more educational opportunities, including algebra in the eighth grade, more sports and extracurricular activities, and college credits and college and career pathways in high school. BBF is ensuring academic excellence so every CMSD scholar can thrive. THE OPPORTUNITY: INTRODUCTION: CONTEXT AND MISSION: The Cleveland Metropolitan School District (CMSD) serves approximately 37,000 students in 100+ schools. Over the past several years, the Greater Cleveland community has united behind the collective goal of ensuring every child in Cleveland attends a high-quality school and every neighborhood has a multitude of great schools from which families can choose. The Cleveland Plan defines CMSD’s approach to the reinvention of public education and holds our community accountable for the success of Cleveland’s schoolchildren. The Cleveland Plan is supported by Ohio House Bill 525, which provides much-needed flexibility and autonomy for the district and its schools. Our schools have autonomy over human and financial resources in exchange for accountability for performance. The Principal has primary responsibility and accountability for establishing his or her school as a high-quality, high-expectations academic center with a focus on personalized instruction, professional support for teachers, and school-wide practices that lead to measurable results. The Cleveland Metropolitan School District has developed standards of excellence that the district applies to all parts of the organization inclusive of schools, principals, school leadership teams, networks, and central office. Alignment between Standards of Excellence (SoE) and the district’s Theory of Action helps ensure that principals are able to focus on scholar achievement and that central office supports are timely and effective. OUR VISION FOR LEARNING IN A POST-PANDEMIC WORLD: In our pursuit of a more fair, just, and good system of education, we want each of our learners, both each of our scholars and each of their educators, to be individually and collectively presented with academically / intellectually complex tasks that are worthy of their productive struggle and allow them authentic opportunities to demonstrate their work and their learning of academic content and transferable skills in a joyful and adventurous environment. Cleveland teachers do more than just teach. They change lives. We are looking for teachers who are thoughtful, hardworking, interested in collaborating with their peers for the success of all students, and who look at challenges and see opportunity.

Requirements

Hold a Valid Ohio teaching certificate in both Physical Education and Health (please provide proof of certification)
Have a Bachelor's degree in Education or relevant degree.
Be Highly Qualified in appropriate subject area
Provide evidence of exemplary classroom teaching experience
Possess a special commitment to helping urban students to succeed
Possess an understanding of what it means to provide access to rigor for students who have historically been underserved
Demonstrate ability to work in collaboration with administrators, teachers, parents and community
Ability to work well as part of an interdisciplinary team
Care about building connections with students and their personal identities
Have a track record of succeeding when faced with challenging work

Responsibilities

Teach skills utilizing appropriate resources and activities
Instruct pupils in subject matter specific to state law and administrative regulations and procedures of the school district
Adapt materials and methods to develop relevant sequential assignments that guide and challenge students
Adapt the curriculum to provide individual, small group or remedial instruction to meet the needs of every student
Encourage students to think independently and to express original ideas
Establish and maintain a rigorous and warm classroom culture
Identify student needs and collaborate with other professional staff members in assessing and helping students solve health, attitude and learning problems
Communicate with parents and other school based community members about student progress
Supervise students in out-of-classroom activities during the assigned working day
Administer or monitors exams
Participate in professional development
Maintain professional competence through in-service education activities provided by the district and in self-selected professional growth activities
Participate cooperatively with the appropriate administrator to develop the method by which s/he will be evaluated in conformance with district guidelines
Seek to involve parents and community stakeholders in the day to day education of our students