Job Description: Second Grade Elementary Teacher
Dudley Street Neighborhood Charter School

Position Description
The Dudley Street Neighborhood Charter School believes that excellent schools are a crucial part of strong, vibrant urban communities. Our school is an "in-district"charter school, part of the Boston Public Schools, staffed by teachers who members of the Boston Teachers Union. We currently serve students in Grades K1 through Grade 4, with Grade 5 to be added in the 2016-17 school year; at capacity, our school will serve 325 students in grades K1-5. Founded by BPE and the Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative , the Dudley Street School is working with local partners to ensure that all children in the Dudley neighborhood have access to a seamless, high-quality education. In addition, the school is BPE's first Teaching Academy, designed to foster innovative teacher practice and deep professional learning in service of training new teachers, through the Boston Teacher Residency, who are well prepared to raise student achievement throughout the city.
The school is currently accepting applications for excellent first grade teachers. Ideal candidates will have demonstrated the ability to drive academic success in urban, public school classrooms, and be committed to building, sustaining and leading an exemplary elementary school. As a Teaching Academy, all teachers will be expected to contribute to a vibrant professional learning community, to reflect on and improve their own practice and to mentor, train, and develop resident teachers .
DSNCS Principles of Instruction
1) Teachers know students as individuals and as learners.
2) Students are sense makers.
3) Teachers design instruction for all students to do complex thinking and work.
4) High cognitive demand teaching requires knowledge of content and understanding of: how students interact with that content, knowledge of how students learn, and setting clear instructional goals.
5) The measure of good teaching is student learning.

DSNCS Instructional Practices
1) Build a culture where every student matters, participates, and engages in academic discourse.
2) Maintain a consistent focus on student reasoning.
3) Assess students' understanding every day to inform instructional decisions.
4) Ensure students read and write in all content areas in meaningful ways, on a regular basis.
5) Integrate and connect language, instructional strategies, classroom routines, structures, and academic expectations to our essential habits of mind: perseverance, independence, and problem solving.

Responsibilities:
Professional Climate & Culture

• Promote a culture of excellence, characterized by high levels of transparency, shared responsibility, collaboration, organization, and efficiency.
• Serve as a collaborating mentor to residents in a yearlong apprenticeship as they work to develop their craft and engage in the process of becoming outstanding classroom teachers.
• Demonstrate deep commitment to professional learning and participate actively in the design and implementation of professional development that is focused on driving exceptional outcomes for students.
• Work under the guidance of the leadership team, including Directors of Instruction, on curriculum, instruction, assessment, and using data to inform practice.

Student Achievement & Character Development

• Set and hold students to extremely high academic standards; ensure that each student achieves a minimum of one year of academic progress per school year.
• Teach with the mindset of preparing students to attend and complete a four-year college degree.
• Identify intellectual, physical, social, and emotional needs affecting students' success in school, and take steps to collaboratively create a plan to address student needs.
• Discuss, celebrate, and reinforce character, the habits of mind and the development of social-emotional skills.

Core Instructional Excellence

• Place student thinking at the center of teaching practice by guiding students to refine and communicate their reasoning and respond constructively to the reasoning of others.
• Demonstrate and continue to develop strong content knowledge.
• Model responses and provide visual anchors; lead students through guided and independent practice.
• Meet needs of a range of learners, providing extra support, enrichment, or variation of work.
• Weave language acquisition, reading, and writing throughout the content.

Classroom Culture

• Create a welcoming environment where every student matters and participates.
• Establish classroom norms and routines that foster civility, mutual respect and provide for equitable participation in classroom discourse.
• Design classroom space that reflects high expectations for teaching and for learning, is reflective of student achievement and work, and provides learning resources that are co-created by teachers and students.

Planning and Data Analysis

• Work collaboratively in a team of teachers to develop and track specific and ambitious yet attainable goals for each student.
• Evaluate student performance on established scoring rubrics that measure either academic growth or mastery of content objectives.
• Use data from assessments, quizzes and informal assessments to evaluate student understanding and inform instructional practice and decisions.

Student, Family, and Community Relationships

• Communicate in a positive, engaging, and meaningful way with students, families, and colleagues.
• Invest parents and families in their children's academic success and the creation of high expectations for student achievement through regular communication of successes and challenges.
• Create opportunities for families to share what they know about their students and also provide feedback, concerns, and questions.
• Generate authentic opportunities to engage the community and families with the school so that rich learning environments and holistic services are provided for students.

Qualifications:
• Deep belief in the mission of Dudley Street Neighborhood Charter School.
• MA Teacher Certificate required (Elementary 1-6 OR Early Childhood: Students with and without Disabilities PreK-2); additional licensure in ESL and SPED strongly preferred.
• Minimum of three years teaching in an urban public school with a record of high student achievement.
• Ability to teach a wide range of student skill, ability, and developmental levels in mixed-grade setting.
• Strong instructional and classroom management skills.
• Demonstrated mastery of and enthusiasm for subject matter.
• Unyielding commitment to continuous learning and development.
• Enthusiastic to reflect and grow as a teacher via coaching and feedback.
• Maturity, humility, strong work ethic, sense of humor, and "can-do" attitude.
Compensation:
Teachers at DSNCS are compensated in accordance with terms negotiated by the Boston Public Schools ("BPS") and the Boston Teachers Union ("BTU"). The actual figure will be provided by BPS and will reflect years of service in the field, level of post secondary educational achievement, and any career award(s) earned.
As employees of DSNCS, teachers are entitled to participate in such benefit plans as BPS maintains for its staff pursuant to negotiated agreements and the eligibility requirements and terms of the plan documents governing such benefits. The BPS Office of Human Capital will provide details regarding these benefits.

To Apply:
Please visit http://bpe.atsondemand.com/ to submit an application for consideration.

Dudley Street Neighborhood Charter School, a BPS/BPE School is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace.