Building Based Substitute Horace Mann Laboratory School Salem Public Schools SY2024-2025

Building Based Substitute Horace Mann Laboratory School Salem Public Schools SY

About Salem Public Schoolshere 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 a building substitute you will perform related duties in the absence of the classroom teacher to provide continuity in the daytoday responsibilities by implementing the teachers prepared lesson plans.

Role Responsibilities:

• Provide instructions according to lesson plans as prepared by the classroom teacher or create lesson plans in the absence of a prepared lesson.
• Uphold all District policies rules and procedures to which all teachers are subject.
• Maintain a classroom environment conducive to learning.
• Assist the teacher with all aspects of the daily routine including distributing and collecting supplies keeping attendance records lunchroom duty recess etc.
• Maintain confidentiality at all times: in the classroom school site and in the community.
• Ability to present material using a variety of approaches techniques and media aids to stimulate interest enthusiasm and curiosity about subjects and events.
• Perform other related duties and/or provide classroom coverage as requested by the Teacher/Principal and designees.

Job Requirements:

• Bachelors Degree (Preferred)
• Minimum of 1year teaching experience and working in an urban public school or charter school setting (Preferred)
• Ability to maintain effective classroom management strategies
• Second language (Spanish and/or Portuguese) proficiency a plus
• Bilingual candidates and candidates of color strongly encouraged to apply
• Current authorization to work in the United States

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.

Additional Information:

The building substitutes will be hired to work at one particular school and will be guaranteed a role every day.

Salary: Building subs are fulltime employees and part of our Paraprofessional Union. Pay aligns with the Para CBA.

Benefits: The City of Salem offers Group Insurance Commission (GIC) benefits to all fulltime employees. Click here for more information about our health benefits.

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.