Grade Level: 6-8

Start Date: August 2024

Kiley Prep Mission: Unimpeded access to inclusive learning through agents of equity and change

We recognize that, in today's diverse classrooms, students need knowledge and skills related to prejudice reduction, human rights awareness and collective action. Through anti-bias and social justice study we encourage our young people to challenge prejudice and learn how to be agents of change in their own lives. Engaging with our global and national history, and how it informs our attitudes and behaviors, allows us to choose a world of equity and justice. We are committed to contradicting oppression and racism by providing civil and inclusive school communities where children are respected, valued and welcome participants.

We are seeking candidates that are committed to a vision that embraces a vision of high-quality education with equitable, excellent outcomes for all students as a formidable instrument in disrupting structural racism, oppression and bias. Educational equity means that all children experience:

• Instruction that challenges, engages, and empowers learners;
• Access to standards-based, content-rich, culturally affirming curriculum;
• Explicit anti-racist discussion, practice, and action; and
• School culture that fosters positive identity, belonging, agency, and purpose.

What We Believe In

Kiley Prep Instructional Vision:

Kiley Prep at M. Marcus Kiley Middle School Campus focuses on student ownership of authentic instruction by prioritizing the following three dimensions of success: mastery of knowledge and skills, character, and high-quality student work. Our instructional vision values critical thinking, creativity, communication, collaboration and character as the cornerstone of student success in high school, college, and career. Our mission is to leverage highest quality instruction that will enable our students to go beyond surface level learning and engage in enduring understandings. All students will fully engage in grade-level standards aligned curriculum, take robust assessments to demonstrate mastery towards standards, and complete authentic tasks that prepare them for real world challenges and community contributions.

Kiley Prep: 3 Dimensions of Success

Mastery of Skills and Knowledge : Kiley Prep teachers leverage and lift rigorous grade level, standards-aligned curriculum, and use robust authentic assessments tied to real world challenges. We have a strong focus on literacy through dual ELA and Humanities, as well as cross curricular connections between Math and Science through STEM.

Character Development and Education: Kiley Prep teachers are committed to developing Habits of Scholarship such as perseverance, responsibility, reflection, and ethical decision making through our Crew classes. Crew is a hallmark feature that develops community and fosters peer collaboration. Students are leaders of their learning through Student Led Conferences and end of year community symposium in which they present yearly portfolios that track academic and social emotional growth.

High Quality Student Work: Kiley Prep teachers are dedicated to perfecting instructional practices that support high quality student work and achievement. Through student work analysis, Kiley Prep teachers use data to drive instruction through long term planning and in the moment classroom adjustments. We use specific measures for student growth, and action plan twice weekly after to school to create scaffolds that meet the needs of students and help to lift grade level instruction.

Who we are looking for

Educators that view themselves as lifelong learners, collaborators, innovators, and agents of change. Kiley Prep staff model: service, reflection, compassion, equity, empathy, and ethical thinking.

Our teachers believe in a shared responsibility to:

• Ensure that curriculum, instruction, and assessments are rigorous, meaningful, and aligned with standards.
• Use assessment practices that position students as leaders of their own learning.
• Use meaningful data for both teachers and students to track progress towards learning goals.
• Engage all students in daily lessons that require critical thinking about complex, worthy ideas, texts, and problems.
• Elevate student voice and leadership in all classrooms and across the school.
• Make Habits of Scholarship visible across school and daily instruction.
• Model a school wide culture of respect, responsibility, and compassion.
• Prioritize social emotional learning, along with academic learning across the school.
• Design tasks that ask students to apply, analyze, evaluate, and create as part of their work.
• Use models of excellence, critique, and multiple drafts to support all students to produce work of exceptional quality.
• Connect students with the world beyond school through meaningful fieldwork, expert collaborators, research, and community service.

Job Summary : Position is responsible for implementing and monitoring the school wide math curriculum and structure. The position will support in ensuring that curriculum is being implemented with fidelity and will support the needs of the Math Department.

Essential Duties

1. Curriculum & Resources: Overseeing the curriculum and ensuring it meets state requirements. Working with administration to make changes if necessary. Providing and monitoring other resources.
2. Teacher Development: Providing and leading professional development to the Math Department. Coaching Math teachers to develop appropriate teaching skills and curriculum implementation.
3. Student Engagement: Monitoring student progress across curriculum and standardized testing. Creating systems that will provide students with further opportunities for growth and achievement.
4. Learning Environment: Being a model classroom that showcases teacher strategies that foster a positive and inclusive learning environment.
5. Technology: Integrating technology effectively into the classroom. Working with IT coordinator and operations manager to ensure technology platforms work effectively.
6. Testing: Collaborate with testing coordinator for district and statewide testing needs centered around grade level math standards

*These are intended only as illustrations of the various types of work performed. The omission of specific duties does not exclude them from the position if the work is similar, related, or a logical assignment of the position.

Other Duties

1. Performs any other related duties as assigned by the Supervisor and Principal or other appropriate administrator.
2. Follows daily schedule created based on the needs of our students
3. Collaborates with other content lead teachers to increase cross curricular connections.

Qualifications

• Experience teachingMath at the middle and/or high school levelpreferred
• Appropriate content/program area and grade level educator license from the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education required (Educators who are not yet licensed by MA DESE in the appropriate content/program area and grade level may be eligible for a licensure waiver and are still encouraged to apply.)
• Experience as an active anti-racist or advocate for equitypreferred
• Bilingual in English and Spanishpreferred
• Bachelors degreerequired

Empowered Teachers through the Springfield Empowerment Zone

SEZP offers a competitive salary commensurate with qualifications and experience; salaries for new educators start at $57,396.Educators in SEZP qualify for benefits (personal/sick days, health insurance, etc.) offered to other teachers in the Springfield Public Schools.

In addition, there are several opportunities unique to the SEZP schools to increase earnings above base salary or as an extension to base salary. Those opportunities currently include, but are not limited to:

• Empowerment Academies: Intervention and instruction opportunities we implement during February, April, and summer breaks, with stipends allowing you to potentially earn $2,000 per week

NONDISCRIMINATION STATEMENT

The Springfield Public Schools does not discriminate in employment on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, 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, religion, national origin, or sexual orientation, disability or homelessness.

NOTICE OF SEX NONDISCRIMINATION

Springfield Public Schools does not discriminate on the basis of sex and prohibits sex discrimination, including sex-based harassment, in any education program or activity that it operates, as required by Title IX and its regulations, including in admission and employment.

Inquiries about Title IX may be referred to the Springfield Public Schools Title IX Coordinator,titleix@springfieldpublicschools.com, the U.S. Department of Educations Office for Civil Rights athttps://ocrcas.ed.gov/contact-ocr, or both.

The Springfield Public Schools Title IX Coordinator is Katie OSullivan, Senior Administrator of Human Resources, 1550 Main Street, Springfield, MA 01103, 413-787-7100 ext. 55428,titleix@springfieldpublicschools.com.

Springfield Public Schools sex nondiscrimination policy and grievance procedures can be located on the Springfield Public Schools website,www.springfieldpublicschools.com/non-_discrimination

To report information about conduct that may constitute sex discrimination or make a complaint of sex discrimination under Title IX, please refer totitleix@springfieldpublicschools.com