Job Description

Job Description

Job Description

The two Bronx Charter Schools for Better Learning are dedicated to providing our students and staff with a rich, dynamic educational environment where teaching serves learning. At BBL, academic excellence is achieved through inquiry and increased student autonomy in an environment that values the ongoing learning of each individual.

Provide our students with a rich, dynamic educational environment where teaching serves learning through creating and executing lesson plans. Promote and enforce ongoing learning to achieve academic excellence through inquiry and increased student autonomy.

• Have the highest expectations and create lessons that call upon students’ innate capacity to master complex learning tasks and that leverage their interests and strengths.
• Cultivate deep content-area knowledge because they are passionate learners, themselves.
• Engage in professional development training, collaborative team planning, and welcome opportunities to reflect on one’s teaching practice.
• Openly participate in dialogue around identity, race, diversity, equity, and inclusion.
• Collect, analyze, and develop action plans based on a variety of data, both quantitative and qualitative.
• Develop meaningful relationships with colleagues, students, families, and the greater school community.
• Foster a sense of belonging for students through responsive classroom management strategies, a growth mindset approach to learning, and partnerships with families.
• Engage in school community events, including family conferences and other activities.
• Provide academic support, instructional practices and management needs as mandated on the IEP.
• Compile and organize documentation for IEP meetings and progress reports.
• Track progress towards annual IEP goals, attend IEP meetings and ensuring appropriate accommodations are given to students during assessments.
• Classroom management- foster a positive learning environment by effectively maintaining appropriate student behavior.
• Uphold BBL’s pedagogy, mission and core beliefs.
• Committed to promote and nature children’s innate brilliance.
• Ability to function effectively in a highly collaborative work environment.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Excellent interpersonal skills.
• Excellent follow-up/ follow-through skills.

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree
• Master’s degree (preferred)
• NYS Certification in Early Childhood Education and/or Childhood Education, highly preferred
• Additional certification in Students with Disabilities, Literacy, and/or Mathematics, highly preferred
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills
• Prior teaching experience (preferred)

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