About the Role
Join our mission of providing all students with an exceptional college-preparatory education that empowers them to lead fulfilling lives.
Responsibilities
- Plan and facilitate standards-aligned, engaging lessons.
- Differentiate lessons to cater to students' diverse learning styles.
- Provide remediation to ensure students are demonstrably growing.
- Model and actively build healthy habits and character skills among students.
- Promote Unity's strong and vibrant school culture.
- Consistently grow and develop your craft as an exceptional educator.
- Be recognized and celebrated for contributions through formal career pathways and promotion system.
Requirements
- Master's degree with a teaching certification in New York.
- 2+ years of formal teaching experience in New York.
- Demonstrable skill in accelerating student growth and mastery.
- Adeptness in differentiating instruction to fully support a diverse range of learners and readiness levels.
- Ability to plan rigorous, engaging, and culturally responsive curricula that align with New York State learning standards.
- Exhibits a balance of high expectations and high support, a growth mindset, and an innate joy in working with adolescents.
- Strong interpersonal and classroom management skills with a focus on building productive relationships with students and families.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills.
- Skilled in working collaboratively in team settings.
Skills
- Differentiating instruction
- Classroom management
- Interpersonal skills
- Written communication
- Oral communication
- Collaborative work
Location
- Central Brooklyn
- Bed-Stuy
- Williamsburg
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 2+ years of formal teaching experience
Education Level
- Master's degree
- Teaching certification in New York
Salary/Compensations
- Salaries that are among the highest in the city
Benefits
- Competitive benefits
- Formal pathways for career advancement
- Manageable course-load and schedule
- Small classes
- Daily collaboration
- Designated planning time
- Active coaching and development
- Ample curricular support and resources
About the Company
- Unity is a small, open-enrollment, community-based charter school serving students in grades 6-12.
- We pride ourselves on delivering a personalized, inclusive, and well-rounded education.
- We have a distinct focus on each child's long-term growth and development as both skillful learners and active members of society.
- Our most important resource is the talent and dedication of our faculty and staff.
- We invest significant time and resources to ensure that we, as a team, are providing all of our students with daily learning experiences that are healthy, safe, engaging, supportive, and appropriately challenging.
- We are mission-driven, career educators who are tenacious in our pursuits and strong in our shared convictions.
- We see our work as a calling, not just a job.
- We work tenaciously to ensure that all doors are open to our students.
- We strive each and every day to be our best for our students and each other.
- We take pride in perfecting our craft and putting our full heart into everything we do.
- We seize every learning moment for ourselves and our students.
- We are relentless in promoting academic growth among all of our students.
- We measure our success through our students' consistent, accelerated yearly growth.
- As 'warm demanders,' we balance our high expectations with high support.
- We are a team of educators who all take full responsibility to develop our students as whole-hearted human beings.
- We embrace the vibe of being a small, community-based, open-enrollment school.
- We hustle to offer a rich and bountiful education in the liberal arts and sciences along with extensive extracurricular opportunities.
