Math Teacher, Grades 8-12

Job Description

Job Title:

Teacher, Algebra Grade 8-12
Supervisor:
Principal
Dates: on or around August 17, 2026 - June 30, 2027

Hours:

School Hours. Hiring Manager will discuss specific arrival and departure times.
Compensation:
Codman Academy Charter Public School follows a compensation scale based on years of direct experience. 1 year experience starts at $60,000, with 16 years direct experience starting at $110,444 annually.

• Knowledge: Demonstrates subject area expertise and a cutting‑edge grasp of child development and how students learn.
• Standards: Develops a well‑honed game plan for the year that is tightly aligned with state standards and assessments.
• Units: Plans all expeditions backwards, aligned with high standards, state assessments, and all Bloom's levels; documents and shares all lessons with supervisor at a minimum of two weeks in advance.
• Assessments: Plans diagnostic, formative, and summative assessments to closely monitor student learning.
• Anticipation: Anticipates students' misconceptions and confusions and develops multiple strategies to overcome them.
• Lessons: Designs lessons with clear, measurable goals closely aligned with standards and expedition outcomes.
• Engagement: Designs highly relevant lessons that will motivate all students and engage them in active learning.
• Materials: Designs lessons that use an effective mix of high-quality, multicultural learning materials and technology.
• Differentiation: Designs lessons that break down complex tasks and address all learning needs, styles, and interests.
• Environment: Artfully uses room arrangement, materials, and displays to maximize student learning of all material, focusing on learning targets and student work.

• Expectations: Is direct, specific, consistent, and tenacious in communicating and enforcing high expectations.
• Relationships: Shows warmth, caring, respect, and fairness for all students and builds strong relationships.
• Respect: Wins all students' respect and creates a climate in which disruption of learning is unthinkable.
• Social-emotional: Implements a program that successfully develops positive interactions and social-emotional skills.
• Routines: Successfully inculcates class routines up front so that students maintain them throughout the year.
• Responsibility: Successfully develops students' self-discipline, self-confidence, and a sense of responsibility.
• Repertoire: Has a highly effective discipline repertoire and can capture and hold students' attention any time.
• Efficiency: Skillfully uses coherence, momentum, and transitions so that every minute of the classroom time produces learning.
• Prevention: Is alert, poised, dynamic, and self-assured and nips virtually all discipline problems.
• Incentives: Gets students to buy into a highly effective system of incentives linked to intrinsic rewards.

• Expectations: Exudes high expectations and determination and convinces all students that they will master the material.
• Mindset: Actively inculcates a "growth" mindset: take risks, learn from mistakes, through effective effort you can and will achieve at high levels.
• Goals: Shows students exactly what's expected by posting learning targets, essential questions, rubrics, and exemplars.
• Connections: Hooks all students' interest and makes connections into prior knowledge, experience, and reading.
• Clarity: Always presents material clearly and explicitly, with well‑chosen examples and vivid and appropriate language.
• Repertoire: Orchestrates highly effective strategies, materials, and groupings to involve and motivate all students.
• Engagement: Engages all students in focused work in which they are active learners and problem solvers.
• Differentiation: Successfully reaches all students by skillfully differentiating and scaffolding.
• Nimbleness: Deftly adapts lessons and units to exploit teachable moments and correct misunderstandings.
• Application: Consistently has all students summarize and internalize what they learn and apply it to real-life situations.

• Criteria: Posts and reviews clear criteria for…