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Posted: 01-Mar-24
Location: Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania
Type: Full Time
Categories:
Religion
Preferred Education:
Masters
Sacred Heart Academy is seeking a dynamic Theology Teacher for the 2024-2025 academic year. The position includes teaching five Upper and Middle School Theology classes.
The ideal candidate is an enthusiastic educator who has experience teaching Theology courses and models an active Catholic faith. The candidate seeks professional growth and learning every day and inspires others to do the same through optimism, selflessness, flexibility, and teamwork. The candidate possesses a willingness to collaborate with dedicated educators within the Sacred Heart faculty in both Middle and Upper School. The candidate will show empathy for and a passion to work with adolescent girls as well as a commitment to the development of the whole child.
The candidate will participate in the life of the Upper School by serving as an advisor, and leading a club or coaching a sports team. Sacred Heart Academy Bryn Mawr works to create a community and curriculum that reflect our values of diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging and the candidate should model these values.
Qualifications
- Passion for teaching and for girls’ education
- Ability to design and facilitate rigorous, empowering learning that is student-centered and meaningful
- Intellectual curiosity and a desire to spark a love of learning in students
- Excellent communication and organization skills
- A genuine appreciation of adolescents, a sense of humor, and the ability to work well within a collaborative environment
- Bachelor’s degree in Theology (or related field) required; advanced degree preferred
- Prior Theology teaching experience preferred
- Proficiency in the use of classroom technology: interactive smart boards, learning management systems, Google, and more
- Willingness to work with colleagues to evaluate, design, and implement Theology curricula
- Commitment to curriculum and instruction that demonstrates cultural competency
- Commitment to fostering a community that acts in the interests of equity and justice for each student and affirms their individual experience
Please send a cover letter, resume and contact information for three references to Donna Romero, Director of Academics at Donna.Romero@SHABrynMawr.org. To learn more about Sacred Heart Academy visit us at www.shabrynmawr.org.
SHA Overview:
Sacred Heart Academy (SHA) is a Catholic, independent college preparatory school for girls. Founded in 1865 by the Religious of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, the school has been lay-owned and governed since 1969. Sacred Heart has a strong tradition of excellence in education as envisioned by St. Madeleine Sophie Barat.
Sacred Heart Academy is part of a national network of 25 independent schools located in North America which share a common heritage and vision. There are more than 120 Sacred Heart schools around the world providing an international campus for our students at Bryn Mawr through exchange programs, summer workshops, and service opportunities.
For more than 150 years in Philadelphia, the goals of Sacred Heart’s educational program have remained the same: to produce self-confident women, to provide a challenging intellectual education, to develop a love of God, and to create a desire to help others. A holistic approach to learning seeks to respond to the academic, athletic, aesthetic, spiritual, social and emotional needs of each girl with a curriculum that is well grounded in basic and specialized courses.
Sacred Heart is a Catholic school with a tradition of ecumenism, welcoming the enrichment that students and faculty of all faiths offer. By its religious education program, the school seeks to foster open-mindedness and reverence for differences. In 1978, Sacred Heart moved from Overbrook to Bryn Mawr where it continues to root its academic program in the liberal arts and to empower young women to develop their potential as scholars and leaders.
Sacred Heart Academy is an accredited member of the Pennsylvania Association of Independent Schools (PAIS) and a member of the Association of Delaware Valley Independent Schools (ADVIS) and the National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS).
MISSION
Sacred Heart Academy educates college-bound women by cultivating their self-confidence, guiding them to realize their personal and scholastic potential and their responsibility to others, and by preparing them to meet life’s challenges - all within an academic and religiously diverse community that focuses on spiritual values and the individual student.
Sacred Heart Academy Bryn Mawr commits itself to educate to the Five Goals and Criteria of a Sacred Heart education which unify us with the Network of Sacred Heart Schools.
NOTICE OF NONDISCRIMINATION
The School provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type based on race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.
Send cover letter, resume and contact information for three references to Donna Romero, Director of Academics: donna.romero@shabrynmawr.org
About Sacred Heart Academy
Sacred Heart Academy Bryn Mawr is part of a national network of 25 Sacred Heart schools located in North America which share a common heritage and vision. There are more than 150+ Sacred Heart schools around the world, providing an international campus for our students at Bryn Mawr through exchange programs, summer workshops, and service opportunities. Sacred Heart Academy is accredited by the Pennsylvania Association of Independent Schools (PAIS) and a member of the Association of Delaware Valley Independent Schools (ADVIS) and the National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS).
To learn more about Sacred Heart Academy Bryn Mawr, please visit https://www.shabrynmawr.org/
Mission
Sacred Heart Academy educates college-bound women by cultivating their self-confidence, guiding them to realize their personal and scholastic potential and their responsibility to others, and by preparing them to meet life’s challenges - all within an academic and religiously diverse community that focuses on spiritual values and the individual student.
Sacred Heart Academy Bryn Mawr commits itself to educate to the Five Goals and Criteria of a Sacred Heart education which unify us with the Network of Sacred Heart Schools.
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