Worcester Cultural Academy Charter Public School seeks a talented early childhood school teacher for the 2024- 2025 school year.
We are looking for culturally competent candidates who possess experience working as educators in diverse schools with English Language Learners and students with IEPs. This is an exciting opportunity to partner with other staff, families, and students as a founding teacher at an innovative charter public school in the city of Worcester. We welcome candidates who reflect the cultural diversity of the Worcester community.
Mission
Worcester Cultural Academy Charter Public School will provide students with rigorous, real-world learning experiences in a supportive and nurturing school community, helping all students to become reflective inquisitors, articulate communicators, critical thinkers, and skilled problem solvers. Worcester Cultural Academy Charter Public School’s mission is to educate, inspire, and uncover the inner genius of all learners through project-based experiences. In partnership with local cultural institutions, we will provide Worcester students with educational opportunities that match their varied learning styles and needs, and prepare them to be the cultural leaders of tomorrow.
About the School
Worcester Cultural Academy Charter Public School opened August 2023 and is chartered for grades K-4. As an EL (Expeditionary Learning) Education school, we believe in hands-on learning that focuses on three levels of student achievement: mastery of knowledge and skills, character, and high-quality work. What better way to teach than through experiences with our cultural partners? To name a few we partner with EcoTarium, Worcester Art Museum and Hanover Theater.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree
- Early Childhood (preK-2) or Elementary Certification (1-6)
- Possession of a Massachusetts Sheltered English Immersion (SEI) Teacher Endorsement
Responsibilities
- Plan and deliver effective units and lessons that check for student learning using a variety of assessment techniques
- Sets high expectations for all students, but understands that students may take different pathways to reach those expectations
- Use teaching methods that engage all students in critical thinking, ownership, discovery, curiosity, and joy throughout the lesson
- Design case studies, incorporate fieldwork (including the resources at Old Sturbridge Village), experts, and service learning, projects, and products
- When relevant, contribute to the planning of learning expeditions (see Designing Learning Expeditions)
- Use assessment and data to analyze student learning, create intervention plans, and decide what to re-teach, provide additional support, or enrichment.
- Implement students’ Individualized Education Programs (IEPs) and 504 accommodations by using a variety of accommodations and modifying assignments, when applicable
- Use SEI strategies to meet the needs of English Learners in content areas as they develop reading, listening, speaking, and writing competency
- As needed, adjust and differentiate the curriculum to align curriculum and instruction with the needs of your students
- Teach intervention lessons to students who need additional support
- Regularly and proactively communicate with families
- Teach, re-teach, and positively enforce school-wide consistencies and classroom expectations
- Implement school-wide behavior management structures including the use of restorative practices
- Lead an advisory crew of students in daily check-ins, discussions, team building activities, social-emotional learning, and preparation for Student-Led Conferences
- Collaborate with other educators and colleagues, including co-teachers, EL Education school designer, grade level team members, special education teachers, instructional assistants, service providers, Old Sturbridge Village colleagues, and school leaders about students, classroom management, culture, habits of character, curriculum, instruction, and assessment
Join Our Adult Crew
At Worcester Cultural Academy, our faculty and staff collaborate and support one another and our students through a number of school-wide activities, events and celebrations. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to lead and participate in these events, ranging from student and family orientation activities to celebrations of learning to graduation. We work together to support the safe and happy arrival and dismissal of our students, collaborate and plan together and use data to guide decision-making.
We are intentional about engaging our faculty and staff in the development of the Academy and of themselves. School-wide professional meetings happen before the start of the school year and throughout.
Compensation: Salary will be competitive and commensurate with experience.
Application Instructions
- Answer the following questions in your Cover Letter:
- Why are you interested in teaching at a charter school that teaches through hands-on, project-based learning and is set at a living history museum (Old Sturbridge Village)?
- Describe how you envision using EL Education Core practices and Old Sturbridge Village in your classroom.
- 2 letters of recommendation
- 3 references with contact information
- Resume
Worcester Cultural Academy Charter Public School is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation/gender identity, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.
Visit our school website www.WorcesterCulturalAcademy.org
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: From $50,140.00 per year
Benefits:
- Dental insurance
- Employee discount
- Health insurance
- Retirement plan
- Vision insurance
Schedule:
- 8 hour shift
- Day shift
- Monday to Friday
Work Location: In person