Responsibilities:

• Teach mathematics to middle school students
• Provide academic, character, and cultural formation for students in a classroom setting that is inviting, effective, and growth-oriented.
• Direct the academic growth and development of students in alignment with school's ambitious growth standards.
• Provide classroom instruction that is both academically excellent and character-rich.
• Engage students using an inductive, inquiry-driven, collaborative, and rigorous curriculum that aligns with national and state standards.
• Inspire intellectual curiosity, foster a sense of wonder, enable and inspire depth of insight, and reinforce the joy of inquiry and the pursuit of understanding.
• Nurture in students a love of learning demonstrated by a sense of wonder, spirit of inquiry, depth of insight, perseverance, and joy.
• Strengthen a school-wide culture of inquiry.
• Cultivate students' higher-order thinking skills, including their ability to analyze, create, synthesize, and evaluate.
• Establish and maintain high academic and social expectations for all students through personal accountability for student achievement.
• Use assessment data to inform instruction and targeted intervention that strengthens student achievement.
• Create a joyful learning environment that honors the dignity of all scholars while pushing them to achieve more.
• Visibly model the school mission through consistent professional dress and core virtues.
• Engage in ongoing professional development and community-building.
• Develop meaningful relationships with students and families that inspire a love of learning and exceptional academic success.
• Forge and maintain productive, collaborative, and collegial working relationships with colleagues, parents, and community members.
• Contribute to a disciplined, dignified, and joyful classroom and school culture through consistent behavior management strategies.
• Attend regular, mission-critical programming including summer development sessions, ongoing professional development, data days, parent workshops, and parent-teacher conferences.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

• Bachelor's degree or higher from an accredited institution.
• Excellent spoken and written communication skills.
• Possession of current teaching certification as an elementary school teacher (preferred).
• Relevant urban, elementary teaching experience with demonstrated student results (preferred).
• Special Education credential and experience (highly desirable).
• Spanish language proficiency (preferred).