Middle School Language Arts Teacher

What You’ll Do
As a Middle School English Language Arts (ELA) Teacher at Veritas Prep, you’ll plan and teach engaging literature and composition lessons through meaningful content, ensuring that every student has the knowledge and skills to access grade-level standards and work. You’ll help students gain the essential literacy skills and analytical, critical thinking skills necessary to deeply analyze a diverse collection of texts needed to prepare for higher level language arts in high school, college, and beyond. You’ll partner with your Special Education co-teacher, co-advisor, colleagues and grade-level team to build a strong community, where students feel safe, seen, included, and able to reach their goals. You’ll also receive consistent support from your coach, who will help you continue to grow as an educator.

You will also:

• Build knowledge in your content area and be prepared for every class with high-quality, effective lessons
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Rye Country Day School is seeking a Middle School Language Arts Teacher beginning in August 2025. Rye Country Day School is a coeducational, Prek-12, college preparatory school located in Westchester County, New York dedicated to providing students with an excellent education using both traditional and innovative approaches. We are actively committed to creating and sustaining a school community that is nurturing, supportive, diverse, and inclusive, one in which all students can participate fully and achieve their maximum potential through academic, athletic, creative, and social endeavors. We expect and promote moral responsibility and strive to develop strength of character within a respectful school community.

Specific responsibilities of the position include:

• Teach four sections of Middle School Language Arts
• Grade student work and write reports as required
• Serve as a Middle School advisor and participate in all school, division, and...

To create a flexible elementary grade program and a class environment favorable to learning and personal growth; to establish effective rapport with pupils; to motivate pupils to develop skills, attitudes and knowledge needed to provide a good foundation for higher level education, accordance with each pupil’s ability; to establish good relationships with parents and with other staff members.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

1. Teacher, instruct, demonstrate, inform, perform, direct, and repeat as needed, for pupil learning in the assigned area, utilizing the course of study adopted by the Board of Education, and other appropriate learning activities.

2. Instruct pupils in citizenship and basic subject matter specified in state law, administrative regulation, and procedures of the school district.

3. Develops lesson plans and instructional materials and provides individualized and small group instruction in order to adapt the curriculum to...

Earn a $140,000 salary and join a team of master teachers at The Equity Project (TEP) Charter School, featured in the New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and on 60 minutes for its revolutionary teacher salaries and its outstanding results. TEP aims to achieve educational equity for students from traditionally underserved communities by utilizing world-class teachers, while re-imagining the teaching profession as a place in which teachers prioritize their own growth - as pedagogical experts, intellectual seekers, and community leaders.

Watch the video here to learn more about TEP's new Middle School facility, designed with community and equity at the forefront.

About the Role

English Language Arts teachers at The Equity Project inspire students with theme-based, close-reading units that incorporate novels, non-fiction texts, and poetry. Independent reading is emphasized throughout the school - with robust classroom libraries in all...