Lead Classroom Teacher - Coverage & Growth

KIPP Academy Lynn Charter School is looking for talented, committed, and culturally competent lead teachers who have the power to amplify our children’s potential by creating a school experience that affirms, values, and challenges students each day.

• Oversee and independently lead up to 60 students working on asynchronous assignments for secondary grades, upholding school expectations including safety protocols.
• Maintain school-wide systems for absent work using Google Classroom, Powerschool, and Deanslist.
• Lead a class independently, co‑teach, provide short‑ or long‑term coverage, or step into a lead classroom role later in the year based on the school's needs.
• Collaborate with classroom teachers leading up to and following planned absences.
• Maintain communication with the school leadership team, highlighting trends and gaps in coverage expectations for the team.
• Ensure that all children are affirmed, valued, and challenged every day and foster a positive and safe learning environment.
• Create academically aligned lesson plans, unit plans, rubrics, and assessments when applicable.
• Innovate on best practices to execute engaging, differentiated instruction at a rigorous level for all students.
• Implement aligned school‑wide or grade‑level student culture systems and proactive classroom management strategies.
• When asked to provide long‑term coverage, regularly analyze student work and academic data to modify lessons, refine curricula, and inform instructional practice; maintain accurate, up‑to‑date student grades/records; and initiate strong lines of communication with students and their families regarding growth and progress; prepare and internalize rigorous and engaging unit and daily lessons, leveraging provided curricula and intellectual preparation tools.

• Obtain required MTEL and SEI endorsements with financial support from KIPP MA within the first year of employment.
• Participate in school‑wide and individual professional development, including pre‑service training over the summer and weekly during the academic year.
• Take ownership for the development of your craft by seeking and implementing feedback from your coach and collaborating with teammates within and beyond school‑designed structures.
• Perform assigned duties including classroom coverage, bus, lunch, transition, and dismissal duties.
• Develop strong relationships with families through participation in school events and consistent phone calls, texts, or emails with caregivers.
• Offer support and receive constructive feedback from colleagues to create a professional working atmosphere conducive to accountability, change, and improvement.
• Collaborate with grade level and content teams to tackle common challenges and implement grade‑wide systems, sharing responsibility for all students.
• Maintain dependable attendance according to the school calendar and communicate proactively when attendance barriers arise.

• Embody KIPP MA’s Code of Conduct by acting with integrity, leading with humanity, centering self‑awareness and critical consciousness, taking personal responsibility, and engaging productively.
• Participate and engage in regional professional development and community events as required.
• Demonstrate ability to collect and interpret data, evaluate, reason, define problems, establish facts, draw valid conclusions, and make reasonable judgments and decisions in a timely manner in accordance with the needs of the school.
• Show self‑awareness, flexibility, and emotional intelligence to navigate a setting with students who express diverse needs.
• Use interpersonal and self‑management skills to support behavioral and emotional needs of students, ensure a safe and inclusive environment, and build relationships and manage conflict with students, staff, and caregivers.
• Apply effective communication skills to perform assigned duties and meaningfully exchange information with students, staff, families, and others in person, through written communication, in front of groups, and on virtual platforms.
• Maintain physical mobility to move yourself in various positions to execute duties effectively.
• Have sufficient…