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Empowerment Academy & BelovED Community Charter Schools

Elementary Teaching Assistant

Empowerment Academy & BelovED Community Charter Schools, Jersey City, New Jersey, United States, 07310

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Elementary Teaching Assistant

Empowerment Academy Charter School is hiring an Elementary Teaching Assistant at Empowerment's Lower Elementary Campus to work with our Physical Education Classes. Must be comfortable supporting in P.E. and Health. This is for an immediate vacancy. You must hold a Sub Certificate issued by the NJDOE in order to apply. Base Salary: $37,000 - $52,000 Hours: 7:45am-3:45pm, Monday-Friday Empowerment Academy is a dynamic and successful charter school that truly supports its teachers and staff. Empowerment has three of its own campuses, and BelovED is our "sister school." We serve a mix of students that are among the most diverse in America while enjoying the cultural vibrance of Jersey City, Hoboken and New York City. Our staff is a dedicated group of individuals passionate about closing the achievement gap and providing a quality educational program. At Empowerment Academy, we emphasize teamwork and community and truly value our faculty: Evidencing this, compared to those with similar experience, OUR FACULTY MEMBERS ARE AMONG THE HIGHEST PAID IN NEW JERSEY; Moreover, we seek to achieve academic success without burning out teachers by meshing an effective education program with effective teacher supports and professional development. Teachers at Empowerment Academy are part of a school-wide team. They receive career-long coaching and professional development support from school leaders; work with their peers in professional learning communities (PLCs) to plan lessons and solve problems; and partner with an array of specialists to meet scholars' diverse needs. Examples of such teacher supports include: Abundant planning periods during the school day; A research-based curriculum and supporting curricular materials; High-quality formative assessments, aligned with the curriculum, that help identify when students have not achieved mastery of a skill, concept, or knowledge item; and Full-time reading and math specialists who tutor students struggling to master an essential skill, and counselors and social workers who help students struggling with non-academic problems.