SY25-26 Springfield Legacy Academy Art Teacher

Grades: 6-8

Start Date: August 18 2025

SpringfieldLegacy Academy Art Teacher

Full Time Start Date:Immediate

Salary: $57396 - $90424 and commensurate with experience

Additional Compensation to be Determined:

• $2500-$10000 relocation award for candidates from regions beyond western Massachusetts
• $2000-$5000 signing bonus
• $1000 expanded learning stipend dependent on yearly schedule
• $2000-$12000 extended year stipends for educators selected to teach Empowerment Academies (February April Summer vacations)

Job Details
Springfield LegacyAcademy is committed to building an anti-racist school by ensuring the work of equity is fully inclusive of our emerging bilinguals and exceptional learners and their families across all grade levels. TheLegacy community works to ensure linguistic and racial equity through academic rigor and personalized supports that will drive change and empowerment from within. An educator atLegacy will actively advance commitment to equity for our community through biculturalism anti-racist curriculum and instructional practices and student empowerment. The leadership team atLegacy seeks skilled and passionate educators called to disrupt institutionalized racism in our classrooms and our community of Springfield scholars.

Job Responsibilities

Educator responsibilities atLegacy include:

• Enacting anti-racist instructional practices that ensure students own the learning
• Providing grade level rigor in the course content using highly-rated research-based curriculum
• Providing embedded interventions for students needing additional support time or scaffolds
• Working closely with a co-taught team of two to three additional educators in the classroom
• Engaging with families as partners in the learning around successes challenges and problem-solving on behalf of our scholars
• Other duties as determined by the Principal

Position Qualifications

• Experience teaching Art in middle school or high school preferred
• Appropriate content/program area and grade level educator license (Visual Art) from the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (Educators who are not yet licensed by MA DESE in the appropriate content/program area and grade level may be eligible for a licensure waiver and are still encouraged to apply.)
• Experience as an active anti-racist or advocate for equity preferred
• Bilingual in English and Spanish preferred
• Bachelors degree

If you meet some of the qualifications above we encourage you to apply or reach out for more information. We know that historically marginalized groups including people of color women people from working class backgrounds and people who identify as LGBTQ are less likely to apply unless and until they meet every requirement for a job. Therefore we strongly encourage applications from educators with these identities or who are members of other marginalized communities.

We encourage you to reach out to if you have questions about the role or your qualifications. We are happy to help you feel ready to apply!

Benefits
Selection as an educator atLegacy recognizes an individual for their outstanding vision capacity and commitment to anti-racist school communities. Educators joining theLegacy community may be eligible for the following recruitment incentives subject to personalized negotiation for individual candidates:

• $57396 starting salary
• $2500-$10000 relocation award for candidates from regions beyond western Massachusetts
• $2000-$5000 signing bonus
• $1000 expanded learning stipend dependent on yearly schedule
• $2000-$12000 extended year stipends for educators selected to teach Empowerment Academies (February April Summer vacations)

About the Springfield Empowerment Zone Partnership:

While Massachusetts is consistently ranked as one of the top states for education results in the country we have one of the highest and most persistent opportunity gaps. The Springfield Empowerment Zone Partnership (SEZP) - established in 2015 as a collaboration between Springfield Public Schools (SPS) the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) and the Springfield Education Association (SEA) seeks to improve the longitudinal life outcomes of the more than 5000 students in our 16 middle and high schools.

As a zone of schools within the city of Springfield includingSpringfield Legacy Academy SEZPs approach draws on a deep and embedded partnership with the school district and local teachers union while harnessing the flexibility and innovation found in autonomous school models. As a result each school within SEZP is accorded significant school-based autonomies - in curriculum talent calendar schedule and budget while being held accountable for realizing achievement gains for historically marginalized students. In all of our work SEZP is in pursuit of equity and anti-racism acknowledging the systemic oppression our students and families encounter daily and working to disrupt these provision gaps urgently and courageously.

NONDISCRIMINATION EMPLOYMENT STATEMENT

The Springfield Public Schools does not discriminate in employment on the basis of race color religion national origin sex gender identity sexual orientation sex characteristics sex stereotypes and other sex-based conduct genetic information ancestry age disability or military service or marital status. The Springfield Public Schools does not discriminate in admission to access or treatment in its programs and activities on the basis of race color sex gender identity sex characteristics sex stereotypes and other sex-based conduct religion national origin or sexual orientation disability or homelessness.

NOTICE OF SEX NONDISCRIMINATION

Springfield Public Schools does not discriminate on the basis of sex and prohibits sex discrimination including sex-based harassment in any education program or activity that it operates as required by Title IX and its regulations including in admission and employment.

Inquiries about Title IX may be referred to the Springfield Public Schools Title IX Coordinator the U.S. Department of Educations Office for Civil Rights at or both.

The Springfield Public Schools Title IX Coordinator is Katie OSullivan Senior Administrator of Human Resources 1550 Main Street Springfield MA 01103 ext. 55428.

Springfield Public Schools sex nondiscrimination policy and grievance procedures can be located on the Springfield Public Schools website report information about conduct that may constitute sex discrimination or make a complaint of sex discrimination under Title IX please refer to