CTE Culinary Arts Teacher Learning Coordinator

About Innovation Charter High School

At Innovation Charter High School, we believe schools can be places where young people are deeply known, challenged, and prepared to shape their futures, and where educators do some of the most meaningful work of their careers.

We are a mission-driven public charter high school in New York City serving students with ambition, care, and urgency. Our team is fiercely committed to improving student outcomes and continuously strengthening the school we are building together. This is a place for educators who believe:

• Feedback is essential to growth, for students and adults
• Curiosity is a driver of strong teaching and learning
• Great schools are built through reflection, collaboration, and persistence
• Students thrive when adults hold high expectations and provide deep support
• Supporting one another as a community and showing up as strong team players matters just as much as individual excellence

We are not interested in maintaining the status quo. We are actively working to create new ways of supporting students and new ways of working together as colleagues. That takes humility, experimentation, resilience, and heart.

Our staff cares deeply. We challenge one another. We learn in public. We keep improving.

If you are energized by joining a dedicated team that is building toward something better, for students and for each other, we'd love to meet you.

We are seeking a CTE Culinary Arts Teacher & Work-Based Learning Coordinator who is passionate about preparing high school students for meaningful careers, postsecondary opportunities, and lifelong success through rigorous, hands-on culinary education and authentic workplace experiences.

This educator will lead Innovation's Culinary Arts CTE program, delivering engaging instruction in culinary, baking, and pastry arts while maintaining the standards and requirements of the school's approved CTE program. The teacher will create an inclusive learning environment where all students—including students with IEPs and students requiring additional academic or social-emotional support—can develop technical skills, professionalism, confidence, and career readiness.

As Work-Based Learning Coordinator, this position will also build and maintain partnerships with employers and community organizations, coordinate internships and other work-based learning opportunities, and help students develop the employability skills necessary to successfully transition from high school to college, career training, and employment.

• Plan, teach, and assess Culinary Arts courses, including culinary fundamentals, baking, pastry arts, food preparation, and kitchen-based laboratory experiences.
• Develop and implement engaging lesson plans, course syllabi, instructional goals, and assessments aligned with the school's CTE program requirements.
• Provide students with authentic, hands‑on learning experiences that develop culinary techniques, creativity, problem-solving, teamwork, and professional workplace habits.
• Differentiate instruction and laboratory experiences to ensure students with varying learning needs and skill levels can participate successfully.
• Integrate academic skills, career readiness, employability skills, and industry expectations throughout the Culinary Arts curriculum.
• Use student performance data, practical assessments, observations, and feedback to monitor progress and adjust instruction.
• Maintain current knowledge of culinary industry trends, instructional practices, and CTE requirements through ongoing professional learning.

• Establish and maintain rigorous standards for food safety, sanitation, kitchen operations, and student safety.
• Teach and consistently reinforce proper food handling, sanitation, equipment use, and workplace safety practices.
• Maintain culinary equipment, kitchen tools, instructional materials, and program inventory.
• Monitor supply levels and prepare timely purchase requests for food, equipment, and instructional materials.
• Ensure the culinary learning environment is organized, properly maintained, and…