ELA Teacher

Career Opportunities with Urban Assembly Charter School for Computer Science

Careers At Urban Assembly Charter School for Computer Science

Current job opportunities are posted here as they become available.

Our founding team came together to start CSH because we believe that students in the Bronx can and will join the next generation of entrepreneurs, tech leaders, and Bronx success stories. We wanted to build a new kind of high school--a high school that truly prepares kids for their lives after graduation. We also wanted to build a community of adults with strong connections to each other, to kids and families, and to the Bronx community.

We are looking for inspiring, talented, visionary educators to join our amazing team and help us continue to build one of the city’s best and most innovative high schools.

Our mission is to give every student a path to economic freedom. We also want to educate our students to be ethical, confident, thoughtful, affirmed, and reflective. But, above all else, our mission is to ensure that every student has a path to the national household median income by the age of 25.

At CSH, we value diverse views and ideas. But we believe that every adult in our community needs to share a core set of values and beliefs in order to give our students and families the school they deserve.

Our ELA Teacher will ensure our students develop and apply critical reading, writing, and thinking skills to fundamental areas to become better readers, writers and thinkers, public speakers, and achieve excellent exam and post-secondary success results. Our ELA Teacher will join a department that prepares every student to apply their knowledge to succeed in college and/or a career.

Our ELA Teacher needs to be an excellent classroom teacher and have a passion for advanced literature and curriculum design. The ELA Teacher will:

• Work with the Department Chair to improve on the 9th grade ELA program in order to deliver excellent results, teaches students to develop both their creative and expository writing skills, master editing techniques, merge historical content with modern themes in today’s literature, and show students the connections between the humanities and technology;
• Teach four sections of 9th grade ELA, leveraging both class time and prep opportunities like Mock Exams and Saturday prep to ensure that 95%+ of students are on track to pass the ELA Regents Exam in 11th grade;
• Teach one section of 9th grade SETSS;
• Build strong relationships with students, families, and the Bronx community;
• Lead an advisory, supporting and mentoring 10-15 students and building closer relationship with their families;
• Collaborate with faculty, students, and parents to build an innovative, exciting, and effective school model that achieves our mission and impacts education reform nationwide;
• Work closely with a co-teacher to develop lesson plans, provide students with grades and timely feedback, modify instruction, incorporate high leverage co-teaching models, utilize study data to inform lesson planning, schedule and attend regular planning and norming meetings, prepare for and attend IEP meetings;
• Attend regular 2x1 meetings with direct manager and co-teacher, attend 1x1 meetings with direct manager, attend weekly department meetings;
• Attend professional development opportunities both on campus and in collaboration with outside organizations;
• Incorporate equity into curriculum, lesson design, instruction;
• Collaborate with teachers across the Humanities department to execute on interdisciplinary initiatives and competency/standard alignment;
• Be receptive to receiving vertical and lateral feedback from colleagues as well as managers, and participate in the formal 360 review process.

Teachers’ hours will be 8:15-4:30 daily, with the student academic day running from 9:00-1:00 on Wednesdays and Thursdays, and 9:00-4:15 on other days. Teachers may elect to lead an after-school extra-curricular club or coach a sport for an additional stipend. In the summer of the upcoming school year new teacher PD will begin around August 15th,…