SY MLL Teacher

At Nuasin Next Generation, we believe in the unlimited talent and intellectual potential of our scholars and our community. We cultivate this talent and intellectual potential through a progressive education that focuses on deep exploration, thoughtful questioning, relentless curiosity and critical thinking. Nuasin Next Generation Charter School implements a progressive K-12 educational program and an unyielding commitment to cultivating our scholars’ innate intellectual talents to empower our graduates to achieve excellence in their postsecondary paths and make positive impacts on the broader community.

Every single one of our scholars has the potential to be great and change the world, at Nuasin Next Generation we prepare our scholars for that opportunity.

Nuasin Next Generation Charter School is in search of motivated, mission-aligned individuals that want to join us in providing the scholars and families of the Highbridge section of the Bronx with the truly excellent school they need and deserve. We are looking for educators that believe in the talent and intellectual capabilities of our scholars. We are looking for educators that are excited to engage and ignite our scholars in deep intellectual engagement of great ideas, problem-solving activities, and a complex understanding of our academic content.

Nuasin is a school and community that cares about your why and expects you to bring passion, commitment, and respect to our scholars on a daily basis.

• Serve as a resource to classroom teachers to help ELL scholars achieve academically in the classroom.
• Use language teaching strategies to increase English proficiency for scholars who speak a language other than English at home.
• Advocate for the needs of ELL scholars.
• Evaluate the language needs of scholars whose families speak a language other than English at home and recommend appropriate language supports.
• Administer language screeners to scholars for whom a language barrier is impeding their academic success.
• Maintain accurate ELL cumulative files and communicate changes to Scholar Services.

• Participate in ongoing professional development including ELL staff meetings.
• Administer the NYE SLAT for all ELL scholars.
• Keep track of scholars' performance.
• Plan, prepare, and deliver lesson plans and instructional materials that facilitate active learning.
• Develop workflows, effective lesson plans, and tests that are in accordance with established procedures.
• Instruct and monitor scholars in the use of learning materials and equipment.
• Build a classroom culture that is characterized by high academic and behavioral expectations, prioritizing a safe and caring environment for our scholars to learn and grow in; but is also warm and welcoming.
• Utilize restorative practices to build strong and meaningful relationships with scholars, families, and staff.
• Effectively prepare for all units, lessons, and assessments by effectively using materials provided and making them your own.
• Engage scholars intellectually by maintaining high levels of rigor, intellectual curiosity, high quality discussions, and joy for learning.
• Use formal and informal assessment data to drive instruction, ensure mastery, and pivot when needed.
• Innovate, challenge, and push excellence with scholars at all times.
• Be an active leader and participate in daily advisories, homerooms, and culture blocks.
• Participate in professional development from leaders and peers that pushes constant reflection, adjustment to the plan, and growth.
• Take ownership of academic and social progress of scholars, and work actively to ensure constant progress and overcome setbacks.
• Establish and maintain open communication by conducting conferences with parents, scholars, principals, and teachers.
• Actively participate in a variety of meetings (e.g. grade level, school site, district, professional growth, etc.) for the purpose of conveying and/or gathering information required to perform functions.
• Meet with parents or guardians, other teachers, counselors, and administrators in order to discuss scholar’s language needs and progress.
• Proactively communicate…