ELA Teacher​/Dean - Secondary Level - Leominster Academy

Grades 9–12 English Language Arts Teacher / Dean of Students

1.0 FTE Position: 0.5 ELA Teacher and 0.5 Dean of Students Leominster Center for Excellence and Leominster Academy

Leominster Public Schools is seeking a highly motivated, flexible, and student-centered educator to serve in a combined role supporting two alternative high school programs:

• Leominster Center for Excellence (LCE):
  An Extended Engagement credit-recovery program serving students who need additional opportunities and support to earn high school credits.
• Leominster Academy (LA): A virtual high school program providing students with a flexible, personalized pathway toward graduation.

This full-time position will be divided equally between teaching English Language Arts and serving as Dean of Students. The Dean of Students portion of the position will focus primarily on student discipline, attendance, engagement, accountability, and family communication across both programs.

The successful candidate will understand that students in alternative and virtual settings often require individualized academic support, consistent expectations, strong relationships, and proactive outreach to remain engaged and make progress toward graduation.

• Plan and deliver standards-aligned English Language Arts instruction for students in grades 9–12.
• Provide ELA instruction within credit-recovery, competency-based, virtual, and alternative learning environments.
• Support students in completing coursework and recovering credits needed for promotion and graduation.
• Develop flexible, engaging, and accessible lessons that address a wide range of student skill levels and learning needs.
• Provide synchronous, asynchronous, small-group, and individualized instruction as appropriate.
• Differentiate instruction and provide targeted interventions for students who are significantly behind academically.
• Use student performance data, coursework completion, and formative assessments to monitor progress and adjust instruction.
• Provide timely and meaningful feedback to students.
• Maintain accurate records of student attendance, participation, assignments, grades, and credit completion.
• Communicate regularly with students, families, primary teachers, counselors, and support staff regarding academic progress.
• Implement accommodations and modifications outlined in students' IEPs and 504 Plans.
• Collaborate with staff to develop individualized plans that support students in meeting graduation requirements.

The Dean of Students will work closely with program administrators, teachers, counselors, families, and support staff to oversee student discipline, attendance, engagement, and accountability within both LCE and Leominster Academy.

Responsibilities include:

• Monitor student attendance, virtual participation, course engagement, work completion, tardiness, and patterns of disengagement.
• Identify students who are not meeting program attendance, participation, behavioral, or academic expectations.
• Coordinate attendance and engagement interventions, including student conferences, family outreach, attendance plans, reengagement meetings, and referrals for additional support.
• Respond to student behavioral concerns and disciplinary referrals in a timely, consistent, equitable, and restorative manner.
• Investigate incidents, meet with students and staff, document findings, and recommend appropriate interventions or consequences in accordance with district policies.
• Maintain accurate records of attendance concerns, disciplinary incidents, student conferences, family communication, and interventions.
• Work directly with students to establish clear goals related to attendance, behavior, academic progress, and graduation.
• Conduct frequent outreach to students and families through phone calls, text messages, email, virtual meetings, and in-person conferences.
• Support home visits and other outreach efforts when students cannot be reached or demonstrate ongoing disengagement.
• Facilitate restorative conversations, reentry meetings, and student success planning.
• Support students in developing accountability, self-advocacy,…