[YEP-DC] Chavez Schools is now accepting applications!

Cesar Chavez Public Charter Schools is now accepting applications for teachers!

Special Education, Math, ELA, Science,  & ESOL Teachers  (Grades 6-12)

To apply, please go to www.chavezschools.org

Cesar Chavez Public Charter Schools for Public Policy

Classroom Teacher (All Content Areas)

Mission:

The Chavez Schools' mission is to prepare scholars to succeed in competitive colleges and to empower them to use public policy to create a more just, free, and equal world.  We accomplish our mission by challenging our students with a rigorous college prep and public policy curriculum – focusing on real-world public policy experiences – that foster critical and disciplinary thinking, deep knowledge of our country's founding principles, and strong advocacy skills.

The Chavez Organization seeks to employ educators and leaders who are talented and passionate about student achievement and are looking for an opportunity to ensure our schools deliver remarkable results for students.

Primary Accountabilities:

Instruction

Planning.  Develops instructional plans that provide cognitively engaging learning opportunities that ensure all students construct knowledge to achieve mastery of the stated learning objectives at a high level

Motivating.  Provides activities and content that are consistently organized to be personally meaningful and relevant

Rigor.  Creates learning experiences and assignments that demand students think in multiple ways about complex problems that requires them to apply knowledge and skills

Opportunities to Revise Work.  Develops systems that require students to revise work to meet high standards of excellence

Use of Assessment Data.  Consistently uses assessment data to make timely instructional decisions to inform instruction and assign activities

Classroom Management

Expectations.  Establishes high academic and behavior expectations for every student

Respectful Culture.  Fosters interactions and relationships of interdependence and respect

Routines.  Ensures all available time is maximized thru established classroom norms

School Community

Reflective Practice.  Collaborates and engages in reflective inquiry with peers and administrators for the purpose of improving instructional practice and student and teacher learning

Collaboration with Parents.  Ensures frequent and timely communication with parents and guardians about goals of instruction and student progress

Upholds School & Organization Norms.  Assumes a leadership role in modeling school and organizational policies and timelines and encourages others to support them

Candidates must:

Believe that all students can achieve at the highest levels with no excuses

Have achieved the Highly Qualified designation as defined by NCLB (No Child Left Behind)

Have substantive knowledge of the applicable content area

Have experience facilitating a student-centered classroom (cooperative learning, inquiry or project- based learning)

Experience using a varied repertoire of instructional strategies

Have demonstrated success using various formative assessments to monitor student understanding

Have demonstrated success using data to drive practice

Exercise excellent judgment in decision-making

Think strategically and proactively problem-solve

Work with only the highest ethical standards

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Pamela Merkerson

Cesar Chavez Public Charter Schools for Public Policy 

Recruitment Manager

P 202.547.3975 | F 202.547.3449
pamela.merkerson@chavezschools.org
709 12th St. SE Washington, DC 20003

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