Instructional Support Middle School Math Specialist for Grades 6-8 at Small Progressive Charter School 2024-2025
Job Description
Community Roots is hiring:
A Math Specialist for 6th-8th grades.
About Us:
Community Roots Charter School (CRCS) is a K-8 school in Fort Greene, Brooklyn. As a diverse by design school, we are committed to being inclusive and centering anti-bias/anti-racist education. We provide all students with an educational environment where learner variability is acknowledged, valued and supported. We view this variability as an inherent strength of our community and use it to inform classroom practices and lesson design. We also establish a strong sense of community where students reflect on their identities, learn from each other, develop critical reading and thinking skills, and are equipped with strategies to take action on issues they care about.
Teaching and learning at CRCS is embedded in a meaningful real world context, where we teach children to see the connections between school and the world. Through a rich social studies focus and a social-emotional curriculum, we aim to equip all of our students with the skills and perspectives that will support them in developing into fully engaged members of their communities.
Please visit our website for more information about our school: www.communityroots.org
Benefits and Compensation:
- CRCS’ salary scale for 2024-25 ranges from $63,648.00 to $118,681.80 based on teaching experience [per year]
- 403b employer match of retirement contributions
- Single and family dental, vision, and health care
- Pre-tax commuter benefits
- Available funding for professional development opportunities
- Community of teachers and staff who are driven, compassionate and supportive
Responsibilities:
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- Implement targeted, research-based math interventions to individual students and small groups of students in the least restrictive setting
- Collect and use student data to set goals and monitor progress toward instructional outcomes
- Collaborate with classroom teachers to administer and review assessment data e.g. school based assessments, math assessments, proctor state tests
- Collaborate with teaching teams bi-weekly to assess student growth and plan instruction that addresses the needs of students with IEPS and students at-risk
- Identify barriers to student learning
- Identify strategies for instructional shifts, including use of co-teachers and learning specialist in the room, UDL
- Provide non-evaluative feedback that will support students access the curriculum
- Hold family conferences to review individual student’s progress at least twice a year and arrange more frequent, regular conferences as needed
- Provide families with written narratives to report on individual student’s progress at a minimum of twice a year, in accordance with the schoolwide progress report schedule
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- Provide push in/pull out Special Education Teacher Support Services (SETSS)
- Manage IEP caseload
- Remain in frequent communication with families
- Attend IEP pre-meetings and meetings and contribute relevant information
- Report three times a year on IEP goals
- Facilitate and/or participate in student centered research and meetings (e.g. Child Study Team, Functional Behavioral Assessments and Behavior Intervention Plans)
- Attend weekly department meetings with the Director of Student Supports, and Literacy Specialist
- Attend biweekly Math department meetings to discuss and analyze student work, data and best practices
- Co-facilitate a “crew”, our school’s advisory structure
Qualifications:- Special education certification
- Demonstrated success in implementing math intervention and/or instruction
- Belief in CRCS mission and philosophy
Community Roots seeks individuals who:
- Believe that all children have the right to an exceptional education, understand that children learn in different ways, and work hard to provide/create the support each student needs
- Believe that working and educating children in a diverse and inclusive environment is essential
- Are committed to anti-bias/anti-racist education, professionally and personally
- Are capable of building a safe, nurturing, supportive and high achieving school culture
- Believe that communicating and building relationships with children’s families is essential
- Believe that a combination of creativity and research generates engaging curriculum
- Believe in and are capable of high levels of collaboration and communication
- See themselves as active learners committed to ongoing professional development
- Are reflective and embrace feedback
