Middle School: ELA Lead Teacher - Greater Boston (2024-2025)

Job Description

Lead Teacher

KIPP MA is looking for talented, committed, and culturally competent lead teachers who have the power to amplify our children’s potential by creating a school experience that affirms, values, and challenges students each day. We seek to create a professional and authentic environment of joy, excellence, care, and community where educators can make long-term transformative outcomes for students.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Classroom Responsibilities

Ensure that all children are affirmed, valued, and challenged every day

Foster a positive and safe learning environment

Prepare and internalize rigorous and engaging unit and daily lessons, leveraging provided curricula/resources, and intellectual preparation tools

When applicable, may be asked to create and internalize academically aligned lesson plans, unit plans, rubrics, and assessments

Set specific, ambitious growth goals with all students and identify and leverage all necessary resources to ensure they meet them

Innovate on best practices to execute engaging, differentiated instruction at a level rigorous for all students

Implement aligned school-wide or grade-level student culture systems and proactive classroom management strategies

Regularly analyze student work and academic data to modify lessons, refine curricula, and inform instructional practice

Maintain accurate, up-to-date student grades/records and initiate strong lines of communication with students and their families regularly regarding students’ growth and progress

School and Professional Responsibilities

Participate in school-wide and individual professional development, including pre-service training over the summer and weekly during the academic year

Take ownership for the development of your craft seeking and implementing feedback from your coach and collaborating with teammates within and beyond school-designed structures

Perform assigned duties including (but not limited to) classroom coverage, bus, lunch, transition, and dismissal duties

Develop strong relationships with families through participation in school events and consistent phone calls, texts, and/or emails with caregivers 

Be willing to offer support and receive constructive feedback from colleagues in order to create a professional working atmosphere that is conducive to accountability, change, and improvement

Collaborate with grade level and content teams to tackle common challenges and implement grade-wide systems, sharing responsibility for all students

Dependable attendance according to our school calendar, initiating proactive communication when attendance barriers arise

Regional Responsibilities

Embody KIPP MA’s Code of Conduct by acting with integrity, leading with humanity, centering self-awareness and critical consciousness, taking personal responsibility, and engaging productively

Obtain required MTEL and SEI endorsements with financial support from KIPP MA within the first year of employment in addition to free study support ()

Participate and engage in regional professional development and community events as required

KIPP MA teachers are supported in their demanding work by experienced and dedicated leadership and staff who have themselves proven successful in the teaching role. Our leaders maintain consistent school-wide systems and procedures - academic, behavioral, cultural, logistical - designed to permit teachers to do their best work. 

In addition to the responsibilities listed above, there will occasionally be other duties as assigned that teachers will engage in to help promote a positive and calm learning environment and culture.