Science Teacher

Prospect Hill Academy Charter School:
Middle School Campus - Cambridge, Massachusetts Open in Google Maps

Starting Date: Aug 20, 2025

Who Are We? Prospect Hill Academy Charter School is a highly successful urban PK-12 public school located in Somerville and Cambridge. We enroll over 900 students from cities and towns throughout the greater Boston metro area. Our inclusive and restorative school celebrates and serves a diverse community – with 87% BIPOC, 27% ELL, and 16% of our students qualifying for special education services.

Our mission is to prepare all students for success in college, foster responsible citizenship, and inspire a lifelong love of learning – as we believe academic achievement opens doors and creates opportunities for our students. We center the values of anti‑racism, diversity, equity, and inclusion in our work. Our approach to instruction is founded on culturally sustaining, inquiry‑based, and student‑centered practices.

To invest in the growth of our educators, we offer comprehensive professional development, instructional coaching, and mentorship. Our campuses foster a collaborative team environment with extraordinary educators who are committed to ongoing learning, reflection, and professional growth.

As a Science teacher at Prospect Hill Academy Middle School, your focus will be to support students in making scientific inquiry, experimentation, and reasoning valuable and meaningful parts of their identities and lives. Critical to the role is a passion for supporting students to use scientific principles and practices to develop innovative solutions to real‑world questions. As importantly, you will need to draw on and be committed to developing the following skills:

• Development of interdisciplinary projects and curricula that connect scientific skills and concepts with students’ lives and communities
• Implementing instructional strategies focused on de‑centering the teacher and fostering independent and collaborative learners
• Differentiating instruction to make science accessible and equitable to all learners
• Examining and challenging personal biases and systemic inequities in pursuit of anti‑racist teaching, curricula, and culture

Most important to a candidate for this role is an eagerness and excitement to unlearn the models and mindsets of traditional schooling and collaboratively embrace developing a new model for school that centers and uplifts students’ whole selves.

What does a Teacher at Prospect Hill do?

• Demonstrates a depth of content knowledge and understanding.
• Incorporates departmental/subject area expectations into lesson plans.
• Develops lesson plans that are age and developmentally appropriate.
• Designs lessons that accommodate multiple learning styles.
• Activates and builds upon students’ prior skills, interests, and knowledge.
• Aligns lesson objectives with school and state standards, as identified on curriculum maps.
• Adapts curriculum in accordance with student IEPs and 504 plans.

• Interacts respectfully with all students.
• Conveys enthusiasm for subject matter.
• Holds all students accountable to high expectations for achievement and growth.
• Promotes and manages collaborative learning.
• Establishes effective classroom routines and procedures.
• Organizes the physical environment to maximize student learning.

• Communicates clear directions and procedures.
• Identifies and communicates learning objectives for skills and content.
• Communicates clearly and effectively through speech and writing.
• Allocates and manages instructional time effectively.
• Facilitates smooth and efficient transitions and maximizes instructional time.
• Incorporates questioning strategies to improve student thinking and learning.
• Facilitates engaging and inclusive classroom discussion.
• Varies instruction to accommodate different learning styles.
• Executes departmental/subject area expectations into instruction.
• Designs, selects, and incorporates materials and resources that stimulate student learning.
• Adapts instruction in accordance with student IEPs and 504 plans.

• Aligns assessments with instructional goals.
• Designs assessments…