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 diverse learning styles.
- Provide remediation to ensure student growth.
- Model and build healthy habits and character skills.
- Promote Unity's strong and vibrant school culture.
- Consistently grow and develop your craft as an exceptional educator.
- Contribute to the school community through formal career pathways and promotion systems.
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.
- Unity delivers a personalized, inclusive, and well-rounded education with a focus on each child's long-term growth.
- Unity invests significant time and resources to ensure daily learning experiences are healthy, safe, engaging, supportive, and appropriately challenging.
- Unity is a team of mission-driven, career educators who are tenacious and strong in shared convictions.
- Unity's educators see their work as a calling and work tenaciously to ensure all doors are open to students.
- Unity educators strive to be their best for students and each other, taking pride in perfecting their craft.
- Unity educators seize every learning moment and are relentless in promoting academic growth.
- Unity measures success through students' consistent, accelerated yearly growth.
- Unity educators act as 'warm demanders,' balancing high expectations with high support.
- Unity educators take full responsibility to develop students as whole-hearted human beings.
- Unity embraces the vibe of being a small, community-based, open-enrollment school.
- Unity hustles to offer a rich and bountiful education in the liberal arts and sciences along with extensive extracurricular opportunities.
