School Year 26​/Middle School Humanities Teacher

Middle School Humanities Teacher

Lynn is a vibrant, seaside urban community located just north of Boston. The city is known for its contemporary public art, historic architecture, thriving downtown cultural district, and abundant public parks, including the scenic Lynn Shore Reservation and the expansive Lynn Woods Reservation. Reflecting the city's international character, Lynn Public Schools is a linguistically and culturally rich community, with 60% of our students speaking two or more languages.

Lynn Public Schools proudly serves approximately 17,000 students across 29 school sites within a diverse and dynamic educational landscape. Our district includes:

• 1 Early Childhood Center
• 17 Elementary Schools
• 1 Public Separate Day School
• 3 Middle Schools
• 2 Comprehensive High Schools
• 1 Vocational High School
• 1 Early College High School
• 1 STEAM Academy (Grades 6-12)
• 1 Alternative Education Academy (Grades 9-12)
• 1 TOGETHER Educating and Advancing Multi-Disabled Students Academy (PreK-12)

Drawing upon the strength of our community, our families, our students, and our partners, we commit to fulfilling the intellectual, physical, and social-emotional potential of all our students. We work together so our students learn to thrive, advance, and impact the greater community and the world.

LPS is committed to our Core Values:
Inclusiveness, Shared Responsibility, Collaborative Relationships, High Expectations, Inspiring and Life-Long Learning. Lynn Public Schools is dedicated to the goal of strengthening an environment and school culture that honors and celebrates diversity and responds effectively to the social-emotional experiences of every student and family.

The City Arts and Sciences Academy (CASA) is a newly imagined grade 6-12 school for Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math (STEAM). CASA opens in September, 2025 with 200 students in grades 6 and 9 and will over three years to a full grade 6-12 school. CASA will integrate advanced curricula, interdisciplinary project-based learning, and real-world applications to inspire and engage students from diverse backgrounds.

CASA utilizes the unique opportunities within the Lynn community to build innovative, responsive, and meaningful project-based learning experiences for all students. Our commitment to a dynamic schedule allows students to learn in authentic, collaborative, and inter/transdisciplinary ways. Because teacher collaboration and inspiration is foundational to our curriculum, we ensure common planning time and ongoing professional development for our faculty. Community partners are at the heart of our connections to Lynn, and we are supported by abundant, sustainable, nourishing, and reciprocal community partnerships across the arts and sciences.

CASA's current mission is to inspire designers and artists to use creativity, critical thinking, and experimentation to imagine and cultivate a future vested in community.

CASA's current core values:

• Visionary
• Courageous
• Flexible

CASA faculty are unique and essential partners in creating an environment that fosters excellence and cultivates tomorrow's leaders in STEM and the Arts.

A CASA faculty member:

• Creates and researches project-based learning experiences that are engaging, educational and exciting for students.
• CASA faculty welcomes the flexibility of being part of an emergent team and is willing to respond to the changing needs of a creative, innovative learning and teaching environment.
• CASA faculty are enthusiastic about developing a project-based classroom; modifying and expanding existing curriculum to respond to the needs of the students at any given time.
• Plans, prepares, and delivers instructional activities that facilitate active learning experiences.
• Incorporates goals, competencies, and objectives into lesson plans in ways that directly apply to the student's lived experience and to the Lynn community.
• Collaborates with community partners and other teachers.

Performance Responsibilities:

• Collaborate, participate in, and lead the creation of an integrated interdisciplinary arts-infused, project-based curriculum including developing and assessing exhibitions.
• Along with other faculty, participate in strategic planning and department management. Areas include but are not limited to assessment, piloting and creating new curricula, piloting and creating cross-discipline short and long-term projects, implementing technology, student case management, and exhibition/competition/partnership participation.
• Internalize and draw from district curricula seeking opportunities to develop project-based learning aligned to district curricula; actively seek opportunities to supplement curricula with a culturally-responsive lens.
• Communicate regularly with parents/caregivers about student progress.
• Accept flexible assignments, such as team and interdisciplinary teaching, working with different age groups and ability levels, etc.
• Work with university, college, and community collaborators.
• Perform general administrative tasks associated with…