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About the Role

Family Life Academy Charter School is seeking dynamic educators who value collaboration, believe in academic excellence, and want to work in an environment where students are leaders and schools are safe, warm, and caring. This role involves planning engaging, student-centered lessons to ensure all students master state standards, promoting a culture of excellence, and responding to diverse learning needs.

Responsibilities

Creates academically rigorous, standards-based, culturally relevant lesson plans that foster critical thinking and problem-solving.
Utilizes student-centered instructional strategies to engage students and differentiate teaching based on diverse, individual needs.
Implements units using common network curriculum resources, maps, frameworks, pacing documents, and instructional philosophies.
Integrates literacy skills across curriculum areas, includes explicit vocabulary development, and prepares students to read, write, speak, and listen within their discipline.
Coplans and co-teaches with Special Education teachers and English as a New Language teachers to support students through differentiation of materials.
Analyzes data from ongoing formative and summative assessments to refine instructional practices and impact student achievement.
Maintains strong classroom management and implements school-wide policies and procedures to ensure a safe, caring, and orderly school environment.
Establishes a classroom culture of caring, respect, and rapport that holds all students to high academic standards, promotes inclusion, fosters a love of learning, and builds positive relationships.
Grades student work, provides actionable feedback, and enters grades into online systems promptly.
Actively seeks to know students’ strengths and challenge areas and communicates these effectively with families.
Participates in professional development, professional learning communities, grade-level activities, and school-wide functions.
Shares best practices with colleagues by participating in professional learning communities, grade-level or content teams, and cross-school groups.
Upholds the FLACS mission, core beliefs, and educational philosophy.
Reflects on practice, is receptive to critical feedback, and strives to improve instructional effectiveness.
Demonstrates self-motivation and willingness to be a team player.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree is required.
Prior satisfactory teaching experience preferred.
New York State Certification in Childhood Education 1-6 and/or New York State Certification in Early Childhood Education Birth-2.
Dual certification in English to Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) or Students with Disabilities is a plus.
Clearance for fingerprint and criminal background check.

Work Type

Full-time

Education Level

Bachelor's degree required
Master's degree preferred

Salary/Compensations

$58,887.79 to $104,365.68

About the Company

Family Life Academy Charter School (FLACS) is a nonprofit network of high-performing charter schools in the South Bronx.
FLACS, together with the Latino Pastoral Action Center and parents, creates conditions for self-empowerment for all its K-12 students to excel academically, take responsibility for their own learning, and affirm human values.
FLACS has revolutionized education for students from K-12.

Equal Opportunity

It is the policy of FLACS to provide educational and employment opportunities without regard to race, color, religion, creed, national origin, alienage and citizenship status, age, marital status, disability, sexual orientation, gender (sex) or prior record of arrest or convictions (except as provided by law), and to maintain an environment free of discriminatory harassment, including sexual harassment, or retaliation, as required by civil rights law.