Teacher - Social Studies

Pace Center for Girls • New Port Richey, FL

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About The Position

The Social Studies Teacher educates girls in grades 6–12, helping them master state standards and achieve academic success. The year-round program offers small class sizes and wraparound education and social services. Teachers work within a girl-centered, strength-based, trauma-informed framework to create a safe, supportive environment where students can learn and grow.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or higher.
• Hold an active Statement of Eligibility, Temporary, or Professional Teaching Certificate from the Florida Department of Education.
• Knowledge of social studies and comfort teaching grades 6–12.
• Ability to oversee students visually and audibly to ensure their safety and well-being.
• Align with Pace Center for Girls’ mission, values, and guiding principles; maintain ethical standards and comply with its policies and procedures.
• Complete a Level II pre-employment background screening pursuant to applicable Florida statutes and Department of Juvenile Justice policies and procedures.

Nice To Haves

• Comfort teaching across multiple, potentially mixed-grade levels.
• Experience teaching in a trauma-informed youth environment.
• Education degree.
• Valid Florida Driver’s License.

Responsibilities

• Design standards-based lesson plans and align instruction for multiple, potentially mixed-grade classes.
• Use formal and informal assessments to monitor progress and plan instruction around individual student needs.
• Plan lessons using differentiated instructional techniques and strategies to create an engaging learning environment.
• Create a safe, supportive classroom that is girl-centered, trauma-informed, and strength-based.
• Use effective classroom-management strategies to support engagement, respect, and compliance with center policies.
• Develop, monitor, and update Progress Monitoring Plans in collaboration with students.
• Conduct academic advising, use data to assess academic growth, and document progress in the student data platform.
• Complete daily and weekly documentation for attendance, IEPs, RTIs, and other assigned requirements.
• Maintain accurate, regular gradebooks and progress reports for all students.
• Understand Florida graduation requirements and promote college and career readiness and post-secondary planning.
• Collaborate with colleagues to meet student, organizational, state, and local requirements.
• Cultivate positive relationships.
• Attain or maintain required certifications and endorsements by the applicable deadlines.
• Participate in occasional after-hours events, such as family nights, prom, or community outreach.
• Complete and participate in required trainings and drills.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Benefits

• Competitive salary starting at $55,000.
• Ongoing learning and development opportunities and subject-specific instructional coaching.
• 20 paid time off days, 14 paid national holidays, and 5 additional wellness-week days.
• Balanced center-based schedule with 230 academic days and 20 dedicated in-service planning days.
• Eligibility for an additional 2 weeks of paid time off after one year of employment.
• Full-time team members are eligible for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short-term and long-term disability, flexible spending accounts, critical illness and accident coverage, legal and identity theft protection, and a 403(b) retirement plan.
• Team members working 30 or more hours per week are eligible for medical, dental, FSA, HSA, and a 403(b) retirement plan; team members working fewer than 30 hours per week are eligible for the 403(b) retirement plan.
• Wellness resources, including wellness rewards, counseling sessions, leadership coaching, and mindfulness resources.

What This Job Offers

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