Middle School: Lead Teacher

3 days ago

Lynn, United States KIPP Massachusetts Public Charter Schools Full time
Job Description

Lead Teacher at KIPP Academy Lynn Charter School

KIPP Academy Lynn Charter School is looking for talented, committed, and culturally competent lead teachers who have the power to amplify our children’s potential by creating a school experience that affirms, values, and challenges students each day. We seek to create a professional and authentic environment of joy, excellence, care, and community where educators can make long-term transformative outcomes for students.

This role requires consistent and reliable demonstration of the following essential job functions and key responsibilities:

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Classroom Responsibilities

  • Ensure that 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

  • When applicable, may be asked to create and internalize academically aligned lesson plans, unit plans, rubrics, and assessments

  • Set specific, ambitious growth goals with all students and identify and leverage all necessary resources to ensure they meet them

  • Innovate on best practices to execute engaging, differentiated instruction at a level rigorous 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

School and Professional Responsibilities

  • Obtain required MTEL and SEI endorsements with financial support from KIPP MA within the first year of employment in addition to free study support (please review this doc to see requirements)

  • 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 within and beyond school-designed structures

  • Perform assigned duties including (but not limited to) classroom coverage, bus, lunch, transition, and dismissal duties

  • Develop strong relationships with families through participation in school events and consistent phone calls, texts, and/or emails with caregivers 

  • Be willing to offer support and receive constructive feedback from colleagues in order to create a professional working atmosphere that is conducive to accountability, change, and improvement

  • Collaborate with grade level and content teams to tackle common challenges and implement grade-wide systems, sharing responsibility for all students

  • Dependable attendance according to our school calendar, initiating proactive communication when attendance barriers arise

General Requirements and Responsibilities

  • Embody KIPP MA’s Code of Conduct by acting with integrity, leading with humanity, centering self-awareness and critical consciousness, taking personal responsibility, and engaging productively

  • Participate and engage in regional professional development and community events as required

  • Demonstrated ability to collect and interpret data, evaluate, reason, define problems, establish facts, draw valid conclusions, and make reasonable judgments and decisions in a timely manner in accordance with the needs of the school

  • Self-awareness, flexibility and emotional intelligence to navigate a setting with students who express diverse needs

  • The consistent use of interpersonal and self-management skills to effectively support behavioral and emotional needs of students to ensure a safe and inclusive environment, as well as build relationships and manage conflict with students, staff, and caregivers

  • Effective communication skills to perform assigned duties and to meaningfully exchange information with students, staff, families and others in person, through written communication, in front of groups, and on virtual platforms

  • Physical mobility to move self in various positions in order to execute duties effectively, which may include kneeling, walking, pushing/pulling, squatting, twisting, turning, bending, stooping and reaching overhead

  • Physical strength sufficient to periodically lift and/or carry 20 pounds of materials or supplies and to physically restrain a student to keep from harming themself and/or others in an emergency situation

  • Manual dexterity sufficient to perform repetitive hand/wrist/arm motions and to operate a computer and office equipment

KIPP MA teachers are supported in their demanding work by experienced and dedicated leadership and staff who have themselves proven successful in the teaching role. Our leaders maintain consistent school-wide systems and procedures - academic, behavioral, cultural, logistical - designed to permit teachers to do their best work. 

In addition to the responsibilities listed above, there will occasionally be other duties as assigned that teachers will engage in to help promote a positive and calm learning environment and culture.


Qualifications

  • Love and unwavering belief in the high potential of all students

  • Commitment to anti-racism and equity

  • 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

KIPP MA is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We believe in the importance of being a diverse, equitable, and inclusive organization that enables all of our students and staff to thrive. We are committed to building an exceptional team that reflects the diverse backgrounds and experiences of our students. We also strive to ensure an inclusive community by creating a space for meaningful dialogue about issues of race and identity for our staff and students. We hire without consideration to race, religion, creed, color, national origin, age, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status, or disability.



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