Aspire Public Schools, California's top-performing large, high-poverty school system, changes the odds for low-income students. We educate 12,000 students in 34 schools in 9 cities across CA. We make a promise to every single Aspire student: College for Certain. In both 2010 and 2011, 100% of our seniors graduated with admission to a four-year college or university.

We achieve those results through great teachers, great leaders, and great schools. We support teaching excellence through intensive coaching, real-time feedback, and professional development tools customized for each teacher. Aspire's innovative teacher residency helps ensure a pipeline of highly-effective teachers. We place a high value on principal autonomy, thereby empowering our leaders to make the real-time changes their teams need to succeed. With great teachers and great principals in place, we build great schools. Our operations team is lean, efficient, and nimble. Our technology team creates cutting-data analysis tools to empower teachers to make immediate adjustments to their instruction. Together, we're transforming communities, making college the expectation -- not the exception.

We’re looking for individuals who are:

• 100% committed to getting all students into college

• Organized and able to create a rigorous and respectful learning environment

• Collaborative

• Comfortable with using student achievement data to guide classroom instruction and continually improve

• Resilient, proactive, and able to thrive in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment.



Overview:

Provides a high quality, personalized education program in Math for students in grades 9-12. Upholds the mission and values established by Aspire Public Schools.



Your impact as an educator is amplified by the combined impact of our schools across California. Aspire Public Schools is a non-profit organization that opens and operates high-performing public charter schools from Los Angeles to Sacramento. Aspire prepares underserved students for college by equipping teachers with the tools necessary to provide a high quality, personalized education for K-12 students; all educators are provided with laptops, business cards and your own budget for classroom supplies; in addition, small schools and smaller classes enable teachers to get to know each student and his/her family personally. Finally, a longer school year and longer school days provide more time to cover the course material, ensuring that you and your students are successful.

Minimum Requirements:

• CA Single Subject Credential in Math required

• NCLB Highly Qualified

• Bachelors Degree required

• 1+ year working with urban students as a full-time teacher preferred



Responsibilities:

1. Organizes classroom systems/procedures and manages student behavior to ensure all students are fully engaged

2. Establishes a culture of high expectations that includes college preparation for all students

3. Develops and implements lesson plans and classroom activities consistent with California State Standards and Aspire Instructional Guidelines

4. Assesses students regularly in accordance with Aspire guidelines, examines student assessment data, and refines classroom activities to differentiate instruction for each student

5. Collaborates with Aspire team members to improve own and others’ instructional practices; shares best practices

6. Actively participates in professional development activities, including: training sessions and working with lead teacher, principal, instructional coaches

7. Provides students and their families with regular and timely information on classroom activities and student progress; finds ways to involve parents/guardians in their students’ education

8. Tracks critical student information and maintains accurate student records, including attendance, in accordance with Aspire procedures

9. Identifies unique student needs and collaborates with other team members and outside service providers to , diagnoses and address learning challenges

10. Demonstrate knowledge of, and support, Aspire Public Schools mission, vision, value statements, standards, policies and procedures, operating instructions, confidentiality standards, and the code of ethical behavior

11. Perform other related duties as required and assigned



Qualifications:

Required knowledge, skills & abilities:

• Knowledge of child cognitive development and different learning styles

• Knowledge of subject matter, including California State Standards and subject-specific frameworks

• Knowledge of assessments

• Ability and willingness to implement Aspire Instructional Guidelines and Best Practices

• Ability to analyze qualitative and quantitative student data

• Ability and willingness to reflect and improve

• Ability to collaborate with colleagues, parents and community



How To Apply :

To learn more about our schools and this specific opening, please go to Aspire Public Schools, where you can create an online application. To apply for the High School Math Teacher position at our Benjamin Holt Academy in Stockton, be sure to select the school and location prior to your search.



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