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The Rashi School, the Boston Area’s Reform Jewish Independent School, serving students in grades Pre-K-8, seeks a Grade 8 Social Studies Teacher for the 2023-2024 school year. Reporting to the Assistant Head of School for Academic Strategy, the Grade 8 Social Studies teacher will join a high functioning and collaborative Middle School Humanities Team. In our warm and inclusive community, children are appreciated for who they are as they learn and develop their identities. With the school’s foundation of rigorous academics and differentiated instruction and a mission rooted in social justice, we want our students to ask the tough questions—not just the who, what, where, but the how, why, and what can I do to fix it? Rashi graduates have the confidence to try new things and to fail forward. With kindness at their core, they become empowered learners, change agents, global Jewish citizens, and good friends. 

Rashi’s Middle School seeks to promote students’ academic, social, and emotional growth by nurturing an environment that promotes risk taking, flexibility, adaptability, empathy, and resilience. We are looking for educators with a history of positive, caring student-teacher interactions, rich content expertise, and student-centered approaches to join a team of exceptional faculty who utilize a strength based approach to empower students to be their best selves in and out of the classroom. We seek to employ faculty and staff with diverse backgrounds who model our core values (respect, learning, community, spirit, and justice) for our students and are eager to support Rashi in fulfilling its mission. 

Position Responsibilities: 

• Cultivate and maintain a healthy and trusting learning environment, encouraging and nurturing relationships with students.
• Guide students in their social-emotional development and in their ability to establish positive and rewarding relationships.
• Teach 4 sections of Grade 8 Social Studies courses--2 sections focusing on World War II and the Holocaust and 2 focusing on the history of modern Israel.
• Lead a Middle School Advisory and participate in all areas of Middle School life.
• Work collaboratively with colleagues, the Middle School Learning Specialist, the Middle School Dean of Students, the Head of Middle School, and other relevant staff to support and challenge all learners.
• Communicate with families in positive and professional ways including email, phone calls, meetings and parent-teacher conferences.
• Write report cards.
• Meaningfully integrate technologies into the classroom.
• Attend relevant meetings during the school day and faculty meetings on Wednesdays after school.
• Share duties (recess, lunch, etc.) and participate in other aspects of school life set by the Assistant Head of School for Academic Strategy and Assistant Head of School for Academic Operations.

Personal Characteristics:

• Collaborative
• Continuous learner
• Open to feedback
• Strong communicator 
• Demonstrates joy working with middle school students
• Commitment to working in and fostering an inclusive community
• Belief in Rashi’s Mission and Core Values

• Physical Requirements:

• Able to sit, stand, type, twist, bend.
• Able to use telephone and computers.

Qualifications and Attributes:

• Bachelor’s degree in education or related field required. Master’s degree in History and/or Education or related fields preferred.  
• 5 to 7 years experience teaching, preferably with middle school students
• Expertise in early to mid-20th Century European history, Holocaust education, Jewish history and education, and/or interdisciplinary studies and approaches is a plus but not a must.

About The Rashi School

The Rashi School is the Boston area's Reform Jewish independent school serving students in grades PK–8. Located in Dedham, Massachusetts, the mission of The Rashi School is to provide a dynamic, child-centered program of academic excellence that integrates rich secular and Jewish studies curricula and nurtures in its students’ critical minds and compassionate hearts.

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