What are the responsibilities and job description for the February Break Credit Recovery- Southbridge High School: Teachers position at Southbridge High School?
INTERESTED CANDIDATES MAY APPLY HERE (LINK)
When: FEBRUARY 18-21, 2025
Time: 9:00 am-1:30 pm
Compensation: Teachers=$40.00 per hour
Overall vision for February Break Academy:
- Credit recovery classes will be offered for English, History, Math, Science, Spanish & ESL.
- FYI, there are two groups of students attending: Grade Recovery (students who failed a class with a grade between 51-59 in first semester) and Attendance Recovery (students who exceeded allowed absences in our attendance-for-credit policy)
- Grade Recovery students can boost their grades in up to 4 subjects. They must attend all 4 days and take a test on the last day, and earn an overall grade of “Pass” from their instructor to obtain a 5 point bonus to their grade in a course for Semester
- Attendance Recovery students can excuse one full day of Absence per day they attend. Credit Recovery students do not necessarily need to attend all 4 days - e.g. a student who only needs to excuse one period or one day of absence could attend a single day to move those absences to excused.
Teacher Responsibilities:
- Teachers will be provided with a course packet of 3 days of simple independent work reviewing key concepts, and a simple assessment for students to take on the last day. You will need to grade the test, but it will be easy to grade, either automatic self-grading or with a simple key.
- Teachers will support students with working through the review packets, and then proctor them taking the test on the last day.
- Teachers will need to take daily attendance, and aslo review student work and test scores and assign them a grade of either Pass or Fail.
Other information:
- There will be a February Break Academy Coordinator who will review plans and expectations with all the teachers before February break, and who will be on-site every day to supervise the academy.
- There will also be a high school administrator on site daily for support.
- This will be the basic daily schedule:
9:00 - Staff report, prepare classrooms & materials to be ready to receive students.
9:15 - Student arrival. Students can pick up breakfast from the cafeteria and eat it in the classroom.
9:30 - 10:15 - 1st Period*
10:20 - 11:05 - 2nd Period*
11:10 - 11:55 - 3rd Period*
12:00 - 12:45 - 4th Period*
12:45 - 1:15 - Lunch & dismissal - students transition to the cafeteria at the end of 4th period. Students will have lunch & then dismiss from the cafeteria.
Principal Accountabilities:
- Reteach key concepts for subject matter for grade recovery program. Curriculum materials will be provided - teachers must have enough content knowledge to support students with the material but don't have to be subject certified.
QUALIFICATIONS - REQUIRED:
- Bachelor's degree from an accredited institution.
- Meet all state and federal guidelines in order to be fully licensed and Highly Qualified;
- Current authorization to work in the United States - Candidates must have such authorization by their first day of employment.
QUALIFICATIONS - PREFERRED:
- Experience in urban, high-poverty, and/or turnaround schools;
- Teaching or tutoring experience at the secondary level;
- Bilingual language proficiency (Spanish/English) strongly preferred.
Equal Opportunity Employer
Southbridge Public Schools is committed to maintaining a work and learning environment free from discrimination on the basis of race, color, creed, national origin, sex, gender identity, disability, religion, age, or sexual orientation.
Background on Southbridge Public Schools:
Southbridge Public Schools (SPS) serves approximately 2,200 students in five schools and employs nearly 330 educators and staff. In January 2016, the Massachusetts Board of Elementary and Secondary Education designated SPS chronically underperforming (Level 5), placing the district in state receivership. The third district to be placed in the Commonwealth’s Level 5 accountability status, this is an exciting time of change and transformation in SPS. On June 24, 2016, a rigorous turnaround plan, which will guide the district’s turnaround efforts for the next three years, was released to the public.
More information about the district’s turnaround efforts can be found here.
Salary : $40