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College and Career Skills Teacher
Location:
Chicago, IL
Description:
EPIC Academy seeks a full-time instructor for our College, Careers, and Skills course. This unique position is for educators with solid instructional teaching skills, accompanied by a counselor mindset. This combination allows students to learn CCS knowledge while also receiving academic planning support that will enable them to stay on track, recover credits, and complete relevant Learn Plan Succeed tasks. EPIC Academy is a CPS neighborhood charter high school that opened fall of 2009 in the South Chicago community with the mission to inspire and equip every student to build a path to college and career success. We embrace the challenge of public education - to develop every student's resolve to reach their full potential regardless of the odds. EPIC Academy serves one of the most challenging student demographics in Chicago: 96% Free/reduced lunch, 25% Students with IEPs, 15% English Language Learners, with the average 9th grader entering on the 4th-grade academic level. The general area expectation is to graduate high school and get a job. We view these "obstacles" as opportunities to build on our students' assets. EPIC Academy has 3 Goals for every student: Be prepared for college and your career. Develop college/career-bound beliefs & behaviors. Graduate from college or implement a postsecondary career plan. To achieve these goals, we inspire students to imagine their future, provide belief-altering experiences that broaden their vision of what is possible, and build students' academic skill sets to attain their goals. Our results speak for themselves: Top 10% CPS HS in ACT growth - out-performing nearly all CPS selective enrollment schools Top 25% CPS HS in College Enrollment - out-performing the average college enrollment of other area schools by 26 percentage points 33% of EPIC Seniors earn college credit before graduation $9.4M in college scholarships from the last graduating class EPIC Philosophy We believe post-secondary education is the equalizer for life options and long-term happiness. Our students are capable of graduating from their best-value higher educational institutions. It's our work to ensure that we dare each student to imagine an ambitious future vision and then expect and coach the hard work and skills required to realize it. Qualifications Bachelor's Degree Preferred Illinois Teaching Certificate Experience teaching College and Career based courses Experience using Naviance, College Board, and other platforms related to CCS Skilled at leading students through goal setting, research, and action planning related to their academic standing in school and postsecondary plans after graduation. Leaders who are relentless in teaching, creating buy-in, and holding every student to high expectations. Classroom Leader Responsibilities Responsibility #1 - Focus on Skills: We focus on skills first and wrap content around them to drive interest and additional rigor. SAT Standards for 9-11th and College Study & Writing Skills for 12th. Responsibility #2 - High Expectations: Create a safe learning environment that exudes high expectations for every student at every moment. Responsibility #3 - Just Right Support: Provide students with individualized support that involves but is not limited to transcript reviews, grade monitoring, attendance interventions, SEL strategies, etc. Responsibility #4 - Be a Great Teammate: Fully invest in our professional development. Make every second count by displaying high attendance, preparation, and participation in the work and all meetings (grade level, co-teaching, and coaching). Deliver and use data and reports to drive improvement. Responsibility #5 - Make the Extras Count: Teach an intervention or elective club class. 12th-grade teachers lead a Senior Seminar class where students practice college study skills. EPIC Daily Non-Negotiables Know where 100% of students are toward mastery Expect college-bound beliefs and behaviors. Objective, activities, and assessment all aligned to the standard rigor. Live our core values. Annual salary and benefits are competitive and commensurate with experience.
Company:
Epic Academy
Posted:
December 26 2023 on ApplicantPro
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