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POSITION STATEMENT
Upper School Math Teacher

Start Date: August 2022

Union Status: Union

OVERVIEW

Brooklyn Friends School (BFS), a thriving Preschool-12 grade school located in vibrant Downtown Brooklyn, seeks an Upper School Math Teacher  within a dynamic community of colleagues (BFS uses the all-inclusive term, colleagues, to refer to all rather than one that delineates faculty/staff). Founded in 1867, Brooklyn Friends School’s pillars of social justice, service learning/civic engagement, and Quakerism, serve as guideposts for our action-oriented collective work. Our school’s history has been illustrious and reflective of the expansive nature of human experiences. Guided by our mission, BFS provides a dynamic, diverse, and robust social/emotional environment and academic program that cultivates compassionate, intellectually curious, and confident changemakers. As a school, we affirm that human diversity includes, but is not limited to: race, ethnicity, culture, national origin, religion, gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, age, socioeconomic class, family structure and physical ability, as well as diversity of thought, talents, and learning style.

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THE POSITION

The Upper School Math Teacher will contribute to the division’s goal of ensuring that all BFS students graduate as self-reliant, resourceful learners well-equipped to succeed in a vigorous college academic environment. To achieve this, the Upper School math teacher will work in collaboration with the Head of Upper School, Assistant Head of Upper School, the Department Chair, department members, and all departments, as well as the Upper School Leadership Team to facilitate teaching and learning. BFS’s mathematics program aims to teach young people to be strong and nimble thinkers who have the skills to understand the world through the language of mathematics. 

Primary Responsibilities Include: 

This position reports to the Head of Upper School. 

• Works in partnership and in close collaboration with the Head of Upper School, Assistant Head of Upper School, Chair, and the department.
• Practices shared leadership in the classroom with students, in the division, and with all colleagues.
• Keeps abreast of, shares, and applies current academic research on teaching, learning, and the subject.
• Teaches for understanding using multiple modalities, especially experiential and/or project-based learning.
• Helps the department as it facilitates intra-divisional and cross-divisional exchanges to plan vertically across grades 9-12 and grades Preschool-12. 
• Experience teaching to mastery/differential instruction.
• Understands how to actively participate in Professional Learning Communities engaged in the core of professional learning, i.e., in learn, practice, and reflect principles.
• Demonstrates attention to detail while keeping an eye on departmental and whole-division visions.
• Shares the responsibility with the department for any and all reporting or clerical duties related to the subject area.

Qualifications and Characteristics Sought:

• Bachelor of Arts in the subject or other area required.
• Master of Arts in the subject or another field (preferred).
• Familiarity or experience teaching upper level math.
• Familiarity with the International Baccalaureate program (preferred).
• Interest in designing and teaching mathematics curricula as wide-ranging and interdisciplinary (e.g., The Pedagogy of Games, How Does Money Grow?, Math and 3-D Design, Mathematical Modeling of Infectious Disease Epidemics, Non-Euclidean Geometry, Criminal Justice and Mathematics) and other teacher-designed, student interest-driven courses across varied skill levels and grades.
• Dedication to progressive education, the division, and the whole school.
• Demonstrates cultural competency and a commitment to diversity, equity, social justice, and inclusion.
• Strong written and verbal communication.
• Genuine ability and desire to work across differences (intellectually and socially).
• Respect for the life of the child.
• Joy and a respectful sense of humor.
• Compassion, integrity, and open-mindedness in all interactions.
• Collegiality, approachability, flexibility, and adaptability.
• Appropriate, respectful, and consistent understanding of professional boundaries between student and teacher, teacher and family; teacher and colleagues.
• Interest in and willingness to use new and different educational approaches. 
• Consistently strong, respectful, and gracious interpersonal and communication skills. 
• Ability to partner and collaborate across professional statuses, i.e., with all colleagues (i.e., staff, leadership, families, student body, local and national independent school communities, and the neighborhood community).

To apply, please provide the following:

1. One-page cover letter addressed to Kamaya Prince Thompson, Head of Upper School. Along with punctuating your interest and experience, your cover letter should also address how you feel that your professional journey aligns with our school’s Quaker values and pillars of social justice and civic engagement.
2. Resume/Curriculum Vitae
3. Statement of Education Philosophy
4. List of three references (with emails, phone numbers, and relationship to you).
5. Supporting materials are encouraged, including and letters of recommendation.
6. Completed online application.

Please email the above attachments (if possible as a single PDF) to hiring@brooklynfriends.org and Head of Upper School kprincethompson@brooklynfriends.org, and put US Math Teacher in the subject line. Qualified candidates will be contacted after materials have been reviewed.