Elementary Teacher

Job Summary:

Elementary Teacher 3rd Grade South Shore Charter Public School (SSCPS) is dedicated to the mission of inspiring students to excel in academics, service, and life. Our comprehensive curriculum emphasizes literacy in language and mathematics, ensuring rigorous standards and differentiated instruction for all learners. Founded in 1995, we uphold core principles that promote academic excellence, community service, and preparation for future success.

Through project-based and experiential learning, students engage in intellectual exploration across various fields, fostering teamwork, communication, and service. We are committed to nurturing social and emotional health, equity, and empowering students to make a global impact. Our school is fully inclusive and diverse. SSCPS is a K-12 public charter school that serves 1,165 students. As a public school we are tuition-free.

Our students come from over thirty-one communities along the South Shore; the top three districts our students come to us from are Brockton, Randolph, and Weymouth. Our families bring a panoply of cultural and racial diversity to our community, representing many different countries of origin with over 40 different languages spoken  SSCPS, we take pride in our unique curriculum designed to prepare students for higher education while offering them an incredibly diverse and welcoming learning environment.

SSCPS teachers are expected to cultivate and sustain meaningful partnerships with families from diverse backgrounds. Faculty remain dedicated to supporting student achievement and fostering well-being every day. By demonstrating high expectations for all students, as well as a commitment to providing the support necessary to attain these expectations, the SSCPS teacher fosters school improvement and community support. The SSCPS teacher demonstrates cultural competency and antiracist leadership through behaviors and decision-making both in and out of the classroom.

In so doing the SSCPS teacher maintains a collegial environment that honors the teaching profession and encourages continuous learning.

Reports to:

-Subject Area Curriculum Coordinator
-Principal Full Time Status = 100% FTE = 40 hours per week

Essential Job Functions:

- Supports the philosophy and mission of the school as well as the school's projects/FITS/workshops and goals.

- Plans, prepares, organizes, and delivers student learning experiences.

- Motivates, guides, and directs the students in study skills, social emotional learning, and academic learning.

- Proposes new ideas to the administration and helps to implement and evaluate existing ones.

- Is motivated towards professional development and growth in the teaching profession.

- Meets all the requirements of the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education regarding teacher credentials to teach in a Massachusetts Public Charter School. Professional Expectations:

- Faculty members are expected to be available for all assignments by 7:45 a.m. and to remain in the building until 3:30 p.m. If the need to leave the building arises, faculty must notify the appropriate administrator or Assistant Principal and sign out of the building.

- Should a faculty member need to be absent from school, the Principal's Administrative Assistant must be notified following the "Calling in Absent" policy and procedures that are outlined in the Employee Guidebook. Teachers should supply assignments on Google Classroom, or indicate the locations of the substitute packet materials.

- Faculty are expected to be in attendance 2-3 days prior to the opening of the school year and be available or on call five days after the completion of exams after the year's close.

- Teachers should follow the curriculum established by the Massachusetts Curriculum Frameworks and the grade/department.

- Personalities, grades, and student-teacher relationships or interactions are not matters of public information.

- Student information is private and may be released only according to federal, state, and school regulations in consultation with the Principal. The teacher possesses the right and the responsibility to review the records of all students assigned to his/her classes. The teacher may not review the records of other students.

- In discussing any issue relating to the school, its policy, or its program, the teacher maintains a professional manner. It is reasonable and ethical to expect that the teacher exhibits professionalism in all matters relating to the school.

- Faculty members are expected to follow the dress code as outlined within the Employee Guidelines. Professional School-Wide Duties:

- A teacher is expected to attend faculty meetings (level/department/curriculum/full faculty meetings) and parent-teacher conferences, school sponsored professional development activities, one open house, and contribute to the development of the curriculum and department's programs in conjunction with school administration. In addition, a teacher is expected to…