NOTICE: All Ingenuity Prep employees must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 before their start date. All persons offered a position will be required to provide valid proof of vaccination prior to starting employment or must be approved for a medical or religious exemption.
Ingenuity Prep prepares early childhood, elementary, and middle school students in Ward 8 to succeed in college and beyond as impactful civic leaders. Our innovative instructional model promotes small group learning for students, collaborative teaching teams, and robust coaching and professional development opportunities for teachers. Our teacher career ladder rewards strong performance over time, giving teachers the opportunity to earn higher levels of base compensation and bonuses as they demonstrate effectiveness with their students and colleagues. Our instructional leaders are charged with supporting teachers by providing clear expectations, ongoing feedback, and targeted development.
We are looking for short-term teachers to fill in our staff members on extended leave during the school year. There is a possibility (though not a guarantee) that the staff member who takes this role may have the opportunity to stay on in an instructional support role for the remainder of the 2023-24 school year or even the upcoming 2024-25 school year.
This job assignment will be during the months of November, December, and January. Should you be offered the position, we will share specific dates and details.
WHAT YOU’LL DO
As a Short Term Middle School Math Teacher, you will:
- Work with your classroom team to create a joyful, efficient, learning-focused classroom that leads to exemplary student growth -- both academically and socio-emotionally.
- Provide emotional constancy and support for your students -- and your colleagues.
- Prepare daily centers activities, and support students during centers time.
- Create and execute rigors lesson plans for students
- Work with your team to analyze a range of summative and formative assessment data to thoughtfully adjust and differentiate instruction.
- Collaborate with and support colleagues in the classroom and through weekly professional development opportunities.
- Support students during breakfast and lunch.
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Utilize the curriculum to provide students with rich content, and use Teach Like a Champion techniques to ensure that routines and transitions are quick and effective.
- Receive regular, individualized coaching from IP’s instructional leadership team to grow your practice.
WHO WE’RE LOOKING FOR
Ingenuity Prep may be the right fit for you if:
- You have some experience working with Middle School students.
- You want to work closely with your peers in a collaborative teaching setting.
- You want to work in a feedback-rich culture, and are eager to grow your practice through individual coaching and professional development opportunities.
- You believe effective instruction is full of joy and rigor.
- You are a reliable and committed teammate, who is willing to do what it takes to ensure your students are successful.
- You will hold high expectations for yourself and your students.
- You are flexible.
MORE ABOUT US
Ingenuity Prep offers among the strongest compensation and benefits packages of any public charter school in Washington, D.C. Our compensation and benefits package includes:
- Highly competitive compensation for instructional and non-instructional positions.
- 100% of medical and dental premiums for employees paid for by Ingenuity Prep, along with 100% of dependent premiums and 50% of spouse’s or domestic partner’s premiums.
- 100% of employee’s short and long-term disability and life insurance plans paid for by Ingenuity Prep.
- A minimum of two weeks maternity/paternity leave, up to 6 weeks, at 100% of pay (60% from IP and remaining pay from DC Paid Family Leave ) for all staff — regardless of gender.
- A 100% match -- up to 3% -- on your 401K retirement plan.
- A 100% Ingenuity Prep-paid cell phone plan. You can even bring your current number into our plan.
- MacBook Air computer for professional and personal use
Ingenuity Prep does not make hiring decisions on the basis of race, color, creed, ethnicity, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, socio-economic background, age, disability, veteran status, religion, political affiliation or any other characteristic protected by state, federal, or local law.
