Middle School Social Studies Teacher

Teachers are responsible for executing on the mission by ensuring that all students improve academically and demonstrate our core values. Teachers are responsible for providing high-quality, data-driven instruction and instructional support to all learners. They are responsible for collaborating with colleagues, including special education teachers, to ensure all students get the accommodations and modifications needed to master the standards. We want our students to love social studies, to question our history as a country, to read and analyze seminal U.S. documents, and to engage in academic discussion and discourse.

Responsibilities

• Internalizing curriculum, standards, and assessments to deliver and eventually create rigorous lessons aligned to state standards;
• Following schoolwide systems to provide unit plans and lesson plans to the Social Studies Dept. Chair for review and feedback;
• Analyzing assessment data (formative, summative, interim) to refine lesson and unit plans, to provide support to struggling students, and to adjust flexible groupings;
• Providing clear incentives and consequences to support students in reaching high expectations of behavior;
• Supporting students in mastering state standards, including providing targeted interventions and remediation when necessary;
• Actively participating in non-instructional school activities, including arrival, breakfast, break, lunch, and dismissal;
• Managing preparation time blocks to best improve instruction and impact student learning;
• Participating actively in weekly coaching and feedback sessions as well as weekly and monthly professional development;
• Participating in family engagement activities including home visits, family orientations, family conferences, and family workshops;
• Submit weekly lesson plans one week in advance for feedback;
• Implement formal and informal assessments to track each individual student’s progress and learning needs, adjust lesson plans accordingly and update gradebook weekly;
• Communicate students’ progress with student and family on a weekly basis;
• Effective facilitation and personal use of technology as a communication and educational tool to improve student achievement and manage work related tasks;
• Implement our school wide behavior system, routines and procedures and utilize our tracking system;
• Establish and maintain a cooperative working relationship with students and families based on respect for the communities in which they identify;
• Host necessary tutoring sessions to meet all students’ needs;
• Participate in weekly manager check-ins, grade-level meetings, before and after-school duties, and school wide meetings and functions;
• Engage in summer and year-long district, school and personal learning and development;
• Minimum of 40+ hours spent at school per week;
• Additional responsibilities may include: after-school tutoring or Saturday school and are based on the needs of our students

We look for team members that embody our REACH values. This includes the characteristics below.

• Believes and is committed to our mission and being an agent of change: that all students are capable of getting to and through college
• Has demonstrated effective outcomes and results, and wants to be held accountable for them
• Has a propensity for action, willing to make mistakes by doing in order to learn and improve quickly
• Works with urgency and purpose to drive student outcomes
• Thrives in an entrepreneurial, high-growth environment; is comfortable with ambiguity and change
• Seeks and responds well to feedback, which is shared often and freely across all levels of the organization
• Works through silos and forges strong relationships in order to achieve outcomes
• We believe in education as a profession and hold ourselves to high level of conduct, professionalism and behaviors as models for our colleagues and students

Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited four-year educational institution is required.
• Experience: Experience in a classroom setting preferred
• Licenses or Certifications: State certification preferred but not required
• Bilingual preferred (English/Spanish)
• Dual certification in Special Education or ESL preferred