Middle School Math Extension Teacher & Permanent Substitute Teacher

Position Responsibilities - 0.2 Math Extension Teacher

Middle School Educator Responsibilities

1. Foster a sense of student belonging by cultivating joy and purpose throughout the Middle School.
2. Cultivate a caring and culturally responsive learning community in Advisory, as well as the classroom, taking into account physical, emotional, and intellectual well-being of students.
3. Experience and/or demonstrated skills facilitating restorative conversations when supporting student behavior in the learning environment.
4. Identify essential learning and use a planning framework with standards, learning targets, real-world issues, and a culturally responsive curriculum.
5. Design quality formative, summative and self-guided assessments that provide students with frequent feedback and communicate students’ growth and achievement.
6. Plan and implement engaging learning experiences that are inquiry-based, collaborative, culturally responsive, and differentiated.
7. Respond to learners’ diverse needs using responsive, measurable, and research-informed interventions and extensions.
8. Collaborate as a member of a Professional Learning Communities (PLCs) that creates a supportive community, plans curriculum, gives and receives feedback with one another, and engages in professional learning and reflection.
9. Actively engage in professional learning and growth through regular observation and feedback cycles with Professional Learning Community Coaches and Principals.
10. Design and implement inquiry-based learning experiences in and beyond the classroom to prompt learners to question, investigate, create, and reflect.
11. Experience with or interest in co-teaching in a flexible learning environment.
12. Demonstrate an understanding of interdisciplinary teaching and learning.
13. Integrate technology in innovative ways in daily instruction to enhance learning.
14. Engage with students in meaningful activities beyond the classroom that extend student learning experiences (coaching, organizing field trips, sponsorship of clubs, events, overseas travel and/or community service projects, etc.).
15. Strive for continuous self-improvement as a life-long learner.
16. Model the Core Values in your interactions with all members of the school community.
17. Lead and engage with students in meaningful activities beyond the learning spaces, which extend learning experiences for students (supervision, overnight Classroom Without Walls trips, sports coaching, field trips, sponsorship of clubs, events, TRi Time, community service projects, etc.).
18. Connect with and be available to parents and students during and outside of school hours (in person and via email communication).

Role-Specific Responsibilities

1. Understand and utilize the Illustrative Mathematics curriculum in order to provide lessons aligned to the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics.
2. Consider student performance (unit assessments, semester diagnostics, MAP data, learning behaviors) to identify Tier 2 and Tier 3 enrichment needs.
3. Collaborate with principals, PLC coaches, grade 6 math teachers, and Grade 5 enrichment specialists to support student placement and scheduling.
4. Maintain communication with parents via email and parent conferences as needed.
5. Personalize and align enrichment curriculum with accelerated course content and grade-level standards; write, revise, and administer mastery assessments.
6. Provide and refine Tier 2 enrichment resources and unit plans (e.g., AoPS with IM alignment) to support classroom teachers.

Position Responsibilities - 0.5 Permanent Substitute Teacher

1. The permanent substitute teacher shall provide support for teachers who are released for professional development or other projects, and to cover faculty absences. Selected candidates will be assigned to a specific division.
2. Permanent substitutes are expected to be on campus on non-student contact school workdays and will participate in relevant professional development or work on projects as needed on these days.
3. While most time will be spent substituting in classrooms, permanent substitutes are expected to be adaptable and willing to assist with other assignments or responsibilities, as needed.
4. For planned absences, permanent substitutes are expected to collaborate with teachers in advance to discuss lesson plans and expectations. Wherever appropriate and possible, the permanent substitute should take an active role in teaching the class, and the permanent substitute should ensure that teachers receive feedback on how the lesson/s went.
5. When not teaching, permanent substitutes should take an active role in managing and supervising student activities.

Position Requirements & Qualifications

1. Bachelor’s Degree in a relevant field.
2. Master’s Degree in relevant field preferred.
3. Teaching license or a degree in education.
4. At least two years of full-time teaching experience preferred.
5. Standards-based curriculum experience preferred.
6. Excellent verbal and written English language skills.
7. Confident technology skills for teaching and administrative tasks.

Working Requirements

1. Required attendance at school professional learning days.
2. Chaperone and participate in evening and/or weekend school activities each year, as assigned (including “Back-to-School Night”).

Selected candidate will be placed on a hybrid contract, i.e. 0.2 FTE Local Hire Faculty Contract and 0.5 FTE Permanent Substitute Teaching Contract.