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About the Role

IDEA Electives teachers instruct students in a variety of subjects, ensuring every student masters the academic and social skills necessary for college success while embodying IDEA’s values. Teachers set ambitious goals, create a powerful learning environment, plan and deliver rigorous instruction, assess mastery, track progress, and analyze data to adjust instruction.

Responsibilities

• Implement state learning standards and IDEA curricula and assessments to meet ambitious academic expectations
• Learn, master, and deliver relevant content and grade level curriculum, core content objectives and texts
• Submit weekly lesson plans two weeks 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 a clear and consistent behavior management system that aligns to campus- wide initiatives while developing students’ character and sense of community in the classroom
• Help shape and develop a school wide culture that fosters a productive and enthusiastic learning environment for each student
• Establish and maintain a cooperative working relationship with students and families based on trust, understanding and 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 scholars

Requirements

• High level of content-area proficiency as evidenced by teaching certification, field of study, or work-experience
• Experience in a K-12 classroom setting (strongly preferred)
• 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 cross-departmental 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
• Submit official electronic service records from previous educational employers

Skills

• Knowledge of curriculum and instruction
• Ability to instruct students and manage student behavior
• Strong organizational, communication, and interpersonal skills
• Ability to adjust and adapt to a multitude of situations in the school environment

Work Type

• full-time

Experience Level

• 0 years of experience

Education Level

• Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited four-year educational institution

Salary/Compensations

• $59,500

Benefits

• Eligible for various stipends based on certifications, credentials, and campus leadership ranging from $500-$4,000 each
• Additional performance-based compensation
• Additional hourly compensation is provided for after school tutoring or Saturday school as assigned
• Comprehensive benefits plan, covering the majority of the employee premium for the base medical plan and subsidizing the majority of costs for a spouse/domestic partner and children
• Up to 8 weeks of paid family leave for the birth or adoption of a child, based on tenure and caregiver designation
• Up to 50% of tuition paid toward a qualifying degree program, up to $5,250 maximum per year
• 5 face-to-face mental/behavioral health counseling sessions within a year
• Unlimited 24/7 telephonic mental/behavioral health counseling
• Dental and vision plans
• Disability insurance
• Life insurance
• Parenting benefits
• Flexible spending account options
• Generous vacation time
• Referral bonuses
• Professional development
• 403(b) plan
• Relocation allowance may be offered

About the Company

• At IDEA Public Schools, we believe each and every child can go to college.
• Since 2000, IDEA Public Schools has grown from a small school with 150 students to a multi-state network of tuition-free, Pre-K-12 public charter schools.
• IDEA Public Schools boasts national rankings on The Washington Post and U.S. News & World Report’s top high schools lists.
• IDEA serves over 80,000 college-bound students in 143 schools across Texas, Florida, Ohio, and is on-track to maintain its legacy of sending 100% of its graduates to college.
• When you choose to work at IDEA, you are part of our IDEA Team and Family.
• You will work alongside team members who set and reach ambitious goals every day, are excited to continue to grow with IDEA, and work relentlessly to make college for all a reality.
• At IDEA, the Staff Experience Team uses our Core Values to promote human connection and a culture of integrity, respect, and belonging for all Team and Family members.