SYSpringfield Legacy Academy Social Studies Teacher

SY25-26 Springfield Legacy Academy Social Studies Teacher

Start Date: August 18, 2025

Salary Range: $57,396 - $90,424

Additional Potential Compensation:

• $2,500-$10,000 relocation award for candidates from regions beyond western Massachusetts
• $2,000-$5,000 signing bonus
• $1,000+ expanded learning stipend, dependent on yearly schedule
• $2,000-$12,000 extended year stipends for educators selected to teach Empowerment Academies (February, April, Summer vacations)

SEZP is seeking educators who are excited and ready to make an impact in a collaborative, engaging, diverse, and high-energy environment. We are seeking educators who believe teachers are activists - promising instructional access, rigor, advocacy, and a tenacious commitment to anti-racism for all students. SEZP teachers are expected to:

• Create a safe, purposeful classroom environment that prioritizes learning for all students
• Collaborate with other teachers, instructional leaders, and partners to ensure instruction is meeting the needs of all students
• Assess students regularly, analyze data, and determine appropriate next steps for instruction
• Ensure that instruction meets the needs of all students, including students with special needs, English Language Learners, and students performing below grade level
• Build relationships and communicate regularly with students and their families to solicit input and share academic progress
• Engage in learning about issues of racism, diversity, equity, and inclusion in education to examine your own biases; reflect on how those biases affect you, your students, and their families; and plan and deliver instruction in a culturally responsive way
• Participate in and learn from regular professional development opportunities before and during the school year

• Experience teaching History/Social Studies at the middle and/or high school level (preferred)
• Appropriate content/program area (History/Social Science) and grade level license from the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (required) (Educators who are not licensed by MA DESE in the appropriate area or grade level may be eligible for a licensure waiver and are still encouraged to apply.)
• Experience as an active anti-racist or advocate for equity (preferred)
• Bilingual in English and Spanish (preferred)
• Bachelor’s degree (required)

If you meet some of the qualifications above, we encourage you to apply or to reach out for more information. We know that historically marginalized groups – including people of color, women, people from working class backgrounds, and people who identify as LGBTQ – are less likely to apply unless and until they meet every requirement for a job. Therefore, we strongly encourage applications from people with these identities or who are members of other marginalized communities.

We encourage you to reach out to info if you have questions about the role or your qualifications. We are happy to help you feel ready to apply!

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

In addition, there may be several opportunities unique to SEZP schools to increase earnings above base salary. While not guaranteed, those opportunities include, but are not limited to:

• Signing or relocation bonuses
• Expanded Learning Time stipends at some schools, based on the yearly schedule
• Empowerment Academies:
  Intervention and instruction opportunities we implement during February, April, and summer breaks, following an application and selection process

Positions will be filled on a rolling basis; applicants are encouraged to apply immediately. Please contact info with any questions.

While Massachusetts is consistently ranked as one of the top states for education results in the country, we have one of the highest and most persistent opportunity gaps. The Springfield Empowerment Zone Partnership (SEZP) – established in 2015 as a collaboration between Springfield Public Schools…