KIPP SoCal Public Schools
English Teacher
Edtech.com's Summary
KIPP is hiring an English Teacher to deliver engaging and diverse instruction that nurtures students' confidence and character while helping them achieve academic goals. The role involves assessing student progress, collaborating with families and colleagues, and maintaining high expectations in a supportive classroom environment.
Highlights
- Teach English knowledge and skills, fostering confidence and passion in students
- Utilize diverse instructional strategies tailored to student needs
- Develop and administer assessments to monitor student growth and content mastery
- Analyze assessment data to guide instructional decisions
- Collaborate professionally with teammates, parents, and community members
- Implement classroom management to maintain a structured, nurturing environment
- Bachelor’s degree required; valid teaching credential preferred but not mandatory
- Passing score on the California Basic Skills Test (CBEST) or equivalent required
- Competitive and transparent compensation package with generous benefits, including full employer-paid healthcare premiums, 401(k) match, life insurance, and paid holidays
- Serves students within KIPP SoCal Public Schools, a nonprofit operating 24 tuition-free charter schools in Southern California
English Teacher Full Description
Company Description
Who We Are
KIPP SoCal Public Schools is a nonprofit organization that operates 24 tuition-free, open-enrollment charter public schools, within 20 Local Education Agencies (LEA), educating more than 9,800 students and supporting 5,800 alumni to and through college and beyond.
What We Believe
KIPP SoCal believes that the purpose of education is for liberation. This means that we see, develop, and inspire the limitless potential in each and all of our KIPPsters.
What We Do
At KIPP SoCal we build trusting relationships that are strengthened by high expectations and collaboration alongside laughter and joy. We set ambitious goals and hold each other accountable for students achieving their greatest potential. We work together with each other and in partnership with families and communities in the active pursuit of a more equitable world. We do the right thing, even when it's not always comfortable standing up and speaking out against anti-blackness, racism, oppression, and injustice. We persevere through obstacles and treat failure as an opportunity to learn and grow.
You Should Apply If
You love building lasting relationships with students, creating inspiring and engaging lessons, and growing as an educator and a teammate.
Job Description
What You'll Do
- Teach the knowledge and skills, nurture the confidence and character, and inspire the passion needed for our students to achieve their goals, live their best lives, and positively impact the world
- Value and draw upon students’ experiences and backgrounds
- Utilize a variety of instructional strategies based on the diverse needs of all the students that engage all students
- Develop and administer a variety of assessments to measure students’ growth towards goals and to monitor students mastery of the content standards
- Analyze informal and formal student assessment results and use this information to drive and inform instruction
- Communicate and collaborate professionally with teammates, parents, and community members
- Implement classroom management techniques to create a nurturing and structured classroom environment and structure
- Maintain high expectations for students academic achievement and conduct
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution of higher learning
- Passing score on the California Basic Skills Test (CBEST) or basic skills equivalency
- Valid preliminary or CLEAR teaching credential appropriate to role (Strong preference but not required)
Additional Information
- Very competitive and transparent compensation package inclusive of a generous benefits package
- 100% of healthcare premium costs covered by employer, dependents added at 50% of the cost
- Employer paid KIPP SoCal life insurance
- 401(k) plan with up to 6% match by KIPP SoCal
- Voluntary Benefits (Supplemental Life, Accident, Short Term Disability, Pet Insurance, etc.)
- Generous time off program includes 22 holidays and sick leave
- Other great benefits (Flexible spending account, EAP, etc.)
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