Afterschool ML Tutor Salem High School Salem Public Schools SY2024-2025

Afterschool ML Tutor Salem High School Salem Public Schools SY

About Salem Public Schools where belonging leads to opportunity.

Salem is a small diverse city with a proud maritime and immigrant history. Salem Public Schools is an urban public school district enrolling nearly 4000 students across our 11 schools. Our vision is to ensure that all students will be locally engaged globally connected and fully prepared to thrive in a diverse and changing world. We hold dear our core values of belonging equity and opportunity in everything we do. Over the next three yearswe are committed to the work outlined by the four core priorities in our strategic plan: 1 Elevate Learning; 2 Empower Educators; 3 Center Belonging; and 4 Strengthen Our Foundation. We seek individuals who are passionate about urban education and understand the urgency of improving student achievement for all students regardless of ability economic status gender/gender identity language race/ethnicity sexual orientation or other backgrounds. Applicants who have experience working in urban schools and settings and are bilingual are strongly encouraged to apply.

What Youll Do:

As an afterschool ML tutor for the Salem Public Schools you will be responsible for providing tutoring afterschool to classes and/or groups of Multilingual Learners at Salem High School. Your goal will be to help students develop the skills necessary to succeed in their different content classes and on the MCAS exams.

Role Responsibilities:

1. Teaching and Learning

• Plan and deliver engaging and challenging lessons and assignments that lead to students growing in their conceptual understanding of skills in the areas of language mathematics and the skills covered in their content area classes.
• Support students to develop the skills needed to succeed in their different content area classes and on MCAS.
• Review student coursework and give timely and effective feedback to promote students development of competencies and skills needed to succeed in their classes and on MCAS.
• Provide necessary supports for learning and opportunities for collaboration among students.
• Tutor students after school on dates to be arranged by Dori Gilbert at Salem High School. Dates of the ML tutoring program are subject to change.
• Other duties as assigned by supervisor

What Youll Bring:

We are looking for candidates who have diverse backgrounds and experiences are inspired by our mission and are highly motivated to change childrens lives through education. Youll be right at home here if you are a reflective practitioner who values collaboration with colleagues and pushes yourself your work and the people around you to the next level. We expect our SPS employees to:

• Hold a deep commitment to students and families and value diversity The SPS community is vibrant diverse in background ethnicity language and perspective. You embrace and affirm the backgrounds of all members of the SPS community and view our diversity as a powerful resource that supports us each in learning and doing our best work.

• Hold high expectations for yourself students and colleagues You see potential in all especially our SPS students and maintain high expectations for achievement while providing the support necessary to meet that bar. You hold yourself to high expectations modeling SPS values and seeking opportunities to continuously improve.

• Build authentic caring relationships with colleagues students and families You build strong relationships across students families and colleagues that are collaborative in nature and contribute to the individual and collective success of SPS. You partner with families and colleagues to make decisions in the best interest of students and learning.

• Embrace feedback You are a reflective practitioner who learns from mistakes and challenges and uses them as opportunities for professional development. You model persistence and growth mindset and thrive in a culture of feedback.

Job Requirements:

• Bachelors Degree Required; Masters Degree preferred
• Required Massachusetts teaching certification/licensure as an ESL Teacher
• Sheltered English Immersion (SEI) Endorsement (Required within 1year of start date)
• Ability to meet the expectations of the Massachusetts Standards and Indicators of Effective Teaching Practice
• Bilingual candidates and candidates of color strongly encouraged to apply
• Second language (Spanish and/or Portuguese) proficiency a plus
• Current authorization to work in the United States

Equal Opportunity Employer

Salem Public School District is committed to maintaining a work and learning environment free from discrimination on the basis of race color religion national origin pregnancy gender identity sexual orientation marital/civil union status ancestry place of birth age citizenship status veteran status political affiliation genetic information or disability as defined and required by state and federal laws. Additionally we prohibit retaliation against individuals who oppose such discrimination and harassment or who participate in an equal opportunity investigation.