English Teacher - Urban Assembly Charter School for Computer Science

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Who We Are

Comp Sci High is a new charter high school serving the South Bronx that opened in August of 2018.

Our founding team came together to start CSH because we believe that students in the Bronx can and will join the next generation of programmers, tech entrepreneurs, computer scientists, and overall become leading professionals with tech skills for any industry. We wanted to build a new kind of high school--a high school that truly prepares kids for their lives after graduation. We also wanted to build a community of adults with strong connections to each other, to kids and families, and to the Bronx community.

We are looking for an inspiring, talented, visionary, and educator to join our amazing team, help us continue to build our school, and, one day, lead one of the city’s best and most innovative high schools.

Our Mission

To ensure every student graduates with a college acceptance letter, high tech skills, real work experience, and a robust plan to turn those opportunities into a successful career where they will achieve the median income of the U.S. by the age of 25.

Our Values and Beliefs

At CSH, we value diverse views and ideas. But, we believe that every adult in our community needs to share a core set of values and beliefs in order to give our students and families the school they deserve.

What Our ELA Teacher Will Do

Mission: Our ELA Teacher will ensure our students develop and apply critical reading, writing, and thinking skills to fundamental areas to become better readers, writers and thinkers, public speakers, and achieve excellent exam and post-secondary success results. As the school grows, our ELA Teacher will go on to join a department that prepares every student to apply their knowledge to succeed in college and/or a career.

Job Description: Our ELA Teacher needs to be an excellent classroom teacher and have a passion for advanced literature and curriculum design. The ELA Teacher will:

• Work with the Department Chair to improve the ELA program in order to deliver excellent results, teaches students to develop both their creative and expository writing skills, master editing techniques, merge historical content with modern themes in today’s literature, and show students the connections between the humanities and technology;

• Teach four sections of ELA, leveraging both class time and prep opportunities like Mock Exams and Saturday prep to ensure that 95%+ of students are on track to pass the ELA Regents Exam in 11th grade;

• Possibly teach one section of 9th grade SETSS;

• Build strong relationships with students, families, and the Bronx community;

• Lead an advisory, supporting and mentoring 10-15 students and building close relationships with their families;

• Collaborate with faculty, students, and parents to build an innovative, exciting, and effective school model that achieves our mission and impacts education reform nationwide;

• Work closely with a co-teacher to develop lesson plans, provide students with grades and timely feedback, modify instruction, incorporate high leverage co-teaching models, utilize study data to inform lesson planning, schedule and attend regular planning and norming meetings, prepare for and attend IEP meetings;

• Attend regular 2x1 meetings with direct manager and co-teacher, attend 1x1 meetings with direct manager, attend weekly department meetings;

• Attend professional development opportunities both on campus and in collaboration with outside organizations;

• Incorporate equity into curriculum, lesson design, instruction;

• Collaborate with teachers across the Humanities department to execute on interdisciplinary initiatives and competency/standard alignment;

• Be receptive to receiving vertical and lateral feedback from colleagues as well as managers, and participate in the formal 360 review process.

Teachers’ hours will be 8:00-4:30 daily, with the student academic day running from 9:00-1:00 on Wednesdays, and 9:00-4:00 on other days. Teachers may elect to lead an after-school extra-curricular club or coach a sport for an additional stipend. In the summer of the upcoming school year new teacher PD will begin on or around August 11, and the school year will begin in September.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: $70,000 - $100,000. We offer very competitive benefits, commensurate with experience, and great opportunities for professional and career development.

Who We’re Looking For

Mindset

We believe students succeed when adults build a close, collaborative community and strive relentlessly for excellence. We are also approaching school and education in a new way. With those things in mind, we are looking for teachers:

• who strive for excellence--who constantly push themselves, their colleagues, their school leaders, and their students to be better;

• who see and respect BIPOC students, different cultures, and kids from the Bronx;

• who exercise a level of self-awareness and introspection;

• who take onus and responsibility for shortcomings and who welcome feedback;

• who are willing to execute larger department, school-wide initiatives with consistency and fidelity;

• who are flexible and can pivot quickly;

• who are excited to engage with equity work and incorporate it into their teaching practice;

• who understand the importance of helping students to make connections with their content;

• who demonstrate time management and personal organization skills;

• who believe that all students can succeed, even if they learn at different rates and in different ways;

• who love to build community with students, families, and colleagues;

• who are excited by the idea of founding something new and innovative;

• who possess an entrepreneurial or founder’s mentality; and

• who want to grow and develop in their careers.

Qualifications

• Experience teaching in an urban school, with a track record of excellent student growth;

• A passion for ELA/literature;

• Experience writing/designing curriculum and lesson;

• Experience differentiating for students of many abilities;

• A demonstrated commitment to working with BIPOC teens from the South Bronx;

• A demonstrated commitment to working with kids and having standards for them.

To Apply

Submit a resume and cover letter detailing your experience and interest in our work by visiting www.compscihigh.org/join.

Comp Sci High is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes candidates from all backgrounds.