ELA Teacher​/Dean - Secondary Level - Leominster Academy​/Leominster Center Excellence

ELA Teacher/Dean
- Secondary Level
- Leominster Academy / Leominster Center for Excellence

Leominster Public Schools – Leominster Center for Excellence, Leominster, Massachusetts.

Starting Date: Aug 26, 2026

Leominster Public Schools is seeking a highly motivated, flexible, and student-centered educator for a combined role supporting two alternative high school programs: the Leominster Center for Excellence (LCE), an extended‑engagement credit‑recovery program, and the Leominster Academy (LA), a virtual high‑school program.

This full‑time position is a 1.0 FTE role, divided equally between teaching English Language Arts (0.5 FTE) and serving as Dean of Students (0.5 FTE) for both programs.

• 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.

• 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 promptly, consistently, equitably, and in a 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, conflict‑resolution, time‑management, and decision‑making skills.
• Collaborate with teachers, counselors, special education staff, adjustment counselors, and administrators to develop and monitor individualized intervention plans.
• Assist with determining whether students are meeting the participation and progress expectations required to remain enrolled in the programs.
• Support student intake meetings, orientations, progress meetings, and transitions between Leominster Academy, LCE, and Leominster High School.
• Help maintain a safe, respectful, structured, and academically focused environment at LCE and within Leominster Academy’s virtual programming.
• Provide supervision during student arrival, dismissal, transitions, in‑person programming, school events, and other assigned activities.
• Participate in attendance, student support, intervention, family, and reengagement meetings.
• Perform other duties as assigned by the Principals.

Salary: $53,968 to $110,109 Per Year

Position Type: Full‑Time

Please submit resume, transcripts, DESE licensure, and references.

• Citizenship, residency or work visa required.

• Stephanie Potito, Principal
• Leominster Center for Excellence
• Phone: 978‑534‑7740
• Email: stephanie.potito