Details
Posted: 09-Jan-23
Location: New York, New York
Type: Full Time
Categories:
Elementary Teacher
Required Education:
4 Year Degree
Chapin’s Commitment to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging (DEIB): All Chapin students and professional community members are valued and appreciated for their unique identities, including their diverse backgrounds, perspectives, talents, and interests. We expect Chapin faculty to employ culturally informed, equity-focused teaching practices in order to reach all students and ensure they are known and understood. Each individual belongs to and is an integral part of our affirming and joyful learning community. To support this commitment, Chapin actively seeks diversity in its faculty, staff, and student body.
All candidates are encouraged to be familiar with Chapin’s DEIB commitment found on the School’s website.
Job Overview
The Associate Head of Lower School is an enthusiastic, nurturing, and collaborative educator and an inspiring and reflective leader who partners with the Head of Lower School to guide and implement a program and goals for the division and to assess the ongoing progress of these goals. Along with the Head of the Lower School, they will participate in faculty recruitment, hiring, supervision and evaluation and lead the Associate Teacher program. This flexible and open-minded individual reports to the Head of the Lower School and works closely with the Lower School leadership, faculty, and student support team to ensure success for all students. In collaboration with Chapin’s DEIB leadership team, this position is also responsible for leading the equity-focused initiatives, practices, lessons, and training that support students and faculty in the Lower School.
Start Date: July 1, 2023. This is a 12-month position.
Salary will be commensurate with experience; the range is $145,000-$170,000.
Chapin’s Lower School Associate Head will be:
An administrator who demonstrates a commitment to innovation and interdisciplinary curriculum development who
- Works collaboratively with the Head of Lower School and colleagues to advance thoughtful, developmentally appropriate curricular innovation and alignment across each grade
- Supports faculty in the development and implementation of an inquiry and project-based learning approach that is meaningful, integrated, and student-centered.
- Together with the Head of Lower School, develops, integrates, and stewards a meaningful and developmentally appropriate service-learning program
- Models lifelong learning through active participation in projects across the Lower School as well as participation in PD opportunities
A student-centered educator who values each student’s voice, experience, and history who
- Demonstrates a genuine passion, a joyful appreciation, and deep understanding of the Lower School learner
- Supports our vision of a diverse community of learners in which each person is valued and challenged and advances effective culturally responsive teaching practices
An educator who actively cultivates a community of belonging by
- Building relationships that are based on mutual respect, empathy, and a growth mindset
- Collaborating with the Director of Equitable Practices and Head of Lower School to envision, design, and implement a program that supports our DEIB mission, which recognizes and celebrates the diversity of the community
- Assuming primary responsibility for the Associate Teacher Program through mentorship, ongoing professional support, supervision, and evaluation
- Assisting in the planning and presentation of Lower School events, including faculty meetings, professional development, workshops, and assemblies that actively create a positive environment, build cohesion and celebrate the community
A partner to students, their parents, and colleagues in teaching and learning who
- Works in close collaboration with students, families, and faculty in an understanding, confidential, and supportive manner
- Nurtures faculty growth in pedagogy and current best practices, consistent with Chapin’s commitment to a student-centered, inquiry focused classroom, through observations and ongoing professional support so teachers can continue to grow in their skills sets
- Works with co-curricular teachers to coordinate interdisciplinary units of study that allow students to draw meaningful connections across subjects and demonstrate their understanding
- Communicates clearly and compassionately with families and reviews bi-annual student reports
- Assists the Head of Lower School and the division office in the day to day operations and communications of the Lower School
- In conjunction with the admissions team, works with prospective families and applicants, both formally and informally
Qualifications
Required
- Bachelor’s Degree - Master’s Degree Preferred
- At least 5+ years of teaching experience with lower school aged students
- Background in DEIB/Culturally Responsive Practice and programming
- Demonstrated leadership experience in a school setting
- Experience working on a team in a dynamic community with a strong collaborative spirit
Preferred
- Demonstrates a passion for and recognizes the importance of an all-girls setting
- Experience and or knowledge of curricular programs such as Teachers College Reading and Writing Program, Responsive Classroom and Math Programs such as TERC, Contexts for Learning and Cognitively Guided Instruction
- Bilingual English/Spanish speakers are of special interest as our students learn Spanish starting in Kindergarten
- Exceptional interpersonal skills—warm, engaging, collegial, and joyful
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Experience creating, organizing, and maintaining systems pertaining to school life
- Have facility with digital tools such as Seesaw, Canvas, and the Google Suite for Education
How To Apply: Interested candidates should submit a résumé, cover letter, and statement of educational philosophy. Those who apply through January 31, 2023, will be prioritized. Candidates who apply after that date will be considered on a rolling basis.
About The Chapin School
OUR MISSION
The Chapin School is dedicated to empowering a diverse, ambitious and resolute community of young women to thrive and lead in their world. Guided by our motto, Fortiter et Recte, Chapin considers bravery, compassion, service and respect for self and others to be fundamental values. We believe that equity, inclusion and collaboration are critical to personal growth. By advancing and deepening each student’s agency, confidence and resilience within an affirming and joyful learning environment, Chapin strives to ensure that each student is emboldened to pursue distinction as a leader and contributing citizen.
ABOUT US
The Chapin School, founded in 1901, is an independent, all-girls day school in New York City currently serving 802 students K–12.
Chapin’s signature Focus Forward strategic plan, which guided our work for more than a decade, intensified Chapin’s historic commitment to offering the most challenging academic curriculum while also teaching the social, emotional and other skills that will set the stage for its students’ success in this century. Chapin’s institutional priorities continue to be imbued with the spirit of Focus Forward. We have fine-tuned our
... articulation of the School’s purpose as we approach the third decade of the 21st century. A forward-focused learning community whose symbol is a wheel will never cease to strive toward achieving its vision of cultivating in girls the skills and attributes that will allow them to be brave for themselves and for others.
UNDER ONE ROOF
Chapin’s single building provides a unified learning environment under one roof for all students, the 128 faculty members who teach them and the 85 staff members who support all other aspects of school life. An ambitious construction project to be completed in 2020 will feature an entire floor dedicated to the arts and a gymnasium with suspended running track—all with spectacular views of our urban location. The Hayot Center for Innovation, to open in 2020, will provide our entire learning community the opportunity to extend our commitment to interdisciplinary inquiry-based investigations and explorations, deepening students’ interests through experimentation, invention and the development of out-of-the-box solutions to complex issues.
Our vibrant, inspiring and welcoming new spaces will further our commitment to a forward- focused learning environment that enables all students to embrace the challenges and opportunities of the 21st century to the best of their abilities. With these exciting new spaces as a canvas, we renew our pledge to develop curriculum and pedagogy that reflect current research and best practices, always placing each student at the center of her own learning.
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