SYDuggan Academy ELA Special Education Teacher; Long-Term Substitute

Teaching in SEZP

SEZP Is Seeking Educators Who Are Excited And Ready To Make An Impact In a Collaborative, Engaging, Diverse, And High Energy Environment. We Are Seeking Educators Who Believe Teachers Are Activists - Promising Instructional Access, Rigor, Advocacy, And a Tenacious Commitment To Anti-racism For All Students.

• Create a safe, purposeful classroom environment that prioritizes learning for all students
• Collaborate with other teachers, instructional leaders, and partners to ensure instruction is meeting the needs of all students
• Assess students regularly, analyze data, and determine appropriate next steps for instruction
• Ensure that instruction meets the needs of all students, including students with special needs, English Language Learners, and students performing below grade level
• Build relationships and communicate regularly with students and their families to solicit input and share academic progress
• Engage in learning about issues of racism, diversity, equity, and inclusion in education to examine your own biases; reflect on how those biases affect you, your students, and their families; and plan and deliver instruction in a culturally responsive way
• Participate in and learn from regular professional development opportunities before and during the school year

Grade Level: 6-8

Start Date:

Immediate

Location:

Duggan Academy

• Must possess a minimum of 30 college credits
• Produce the required documents (cover letter, current resume, official transcripts (sealed envelope) from an accredited college or university, three character reference letters)
• Experience teaching Special Education at the middle and/or high school level preferred
• Experience as an active anti-racist or advocate for equity preferred
• Bilingual in English and Spanish preferred
• Bachelor’s degree preferred

• Base Pay: $137.96/day
• After 45 days (non-consecutive): $162.32/day
• Long-Term Substitute Teacher (30 consecutive days in one assignment): $271.48/day (SY24 pay rate)
• All Springfield Public School Substitute Teachers are compensated on a bi-weekly schedule.

While Massachusetts is consistently ranked as one of the top states for education results in the country, we have one of the highest and most persistent opportunity gaps. The Springfield Empowerment Zone Partnership (SEZP) - established in 2015 as a collaboration between Springfield Public Schools (SPS), the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE), and the Springfield Education Association (SEA) – seeks to improve the longitudinal life outcomes of the more than 5,000 students in our eleven middle and high schools.

As a “zone” of schools within the city of Springfield, SEZP’s approach draws on a deep and embedded partnership with the school district and local teachers’ union, while harnessing the flexibility and innovation found in autonomous school models. As a result, each school within SEZP is accorded significant school-based autonomies - in curriculum, talent, calendar, schedule, and budget – while being held accountable for realizing achievement gains for historically marginalized students.

In all of our work, SEZP is in pursuit of equity and anti-racism – acknowledging the systemic oppression our students and families encounter daily and working to disrupt these provision gaps urgently and courageously.

The Springfield Public Schools does not discriminate in employment on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, sex characteristics, sex stereotypes and other sex-based conduct, genetic information, ancestry, age, disability or military service or marital status. The Springfield Public Schools does not discriminate in admission to, access or treatment in its programs and activities on the basis of race, color, sex, gender identity, sex characteristics, sex stereotypes and other sex-based conduct, religion, national origin, or sexual orientation, disability or homelessness.

Springfield Public Schools does not discriminate on the basis of sex and…