Library Teacher - Needham High School - SY2025-2026
Library Teacher - Needham High School - SY2025-2026
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Job Description
Needham Public Schools is an inclusive dynamic and multicultural community seeking an energetic skilled and warm High School Library Teacherto join our team. To enhance our goals of supporting every child Needham Public Schools seeks candidates with diverse backgrounds and experiences.
About Needham Public Schools (NPS): NPS has a deep commitment to the success of our diverse students and families and to the professional accomplishments of its educators. Needham devotes itself to cultural proficiency equity and community collaboration to fulfill the vision of the Portrait of a Needham Graduate. This METCO district comprises 5 elementary schools 2 middle schools and 1 nationally-ranked high school serving approximately 5500 students. NPS is committed to addressing equity in the district by focusing on improving academic performance for historically marginalized students and ensuring our schools are safe for every child and free of bias bullying and hurtful acts that demean and diminish. Read more about our equity work here.
Job Responsibilities:
Teacher Responsibilities:
- Promotes a love of reading and lifelong learning
- Collaborates with classroom teachers as an instructional partner
- Collaborates to design teach and assess learning experiences that incorporate inquiry learning information literacies in various formats critical thinking and self-assessment
- Provides and plans professional development for teachers
- Promotes instructional technology to improve learning
- Teaches students to build on prior knowledge to construct new knowledge
Leader:
- Participates in school improvement and accreditation activities; as directed
- Benchmarks the school library program to school state and national standards
- Stays current in professional practices educational research; maintains active professional memberships
- Collaborates regularly with district-wide school librarian team in support of district projects and initiatives
- Collects and analyzes data to improve instruction demonstrates correlations between the school library program and student achievement
- In collaboration with the Director administers the school library budget to support program and district goals
- Participates in the recruiting hiring training and supervising of library staff and volunteers; contributes to the evaluation of support staff as needed
School Librarian:
- Fosters a creative flexible environment so that the School Library is an essential part of the learning community
- Develops and maintains resources appropriate to the curriculum the learners and instructional strategies and priorities of the school community
- Cooperates and networks with other libraries/agencies within and outside of the District
- Establishes data-informed procedures for selection acquisition circulation resource sharing of resources in all formats
- Evaluates promotes and uses existing and emerging technologies to support teaching and learning specifically in the area of school library and research skills
- Promotes the ethical use of information: copyright fair use and licensing of intellectual property
This position reports to the Director of Instructional Technology and Innovation K-12
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelors degree
- Holds a Massachusetts Teaching License inLibrary All Levels
- Holds an SEI endorsement dual certification in ESL or qualifies for such certification
- Core Academic Teachers (early childhood elementary teachers of students with moderate and severe disabilities English reading language arts mathematics science civics and government economics history and geography)
- Academic Administrators (principal/assistant principal or supervisor/director only)
Application and Selection Procedure:
- All resumes will be screened and selected candidates will participate in a thorough interview process.
- All members of the hiring team are required to attend bias training
Compensation and Benefits:
Please review Unit Contract A and this page to learn more about employee compensation and benefits.
The Needham Public Schools does not discriminate on the basis of race color sex sexual orientation gender identity religion disability age active military/veteran status ancestry genetic information or national or ethnic origin in the administration of its educational policies employment policies and other administered programs and activities. In addition students who are homeless or of limited English-speaking ability are protected from discrimination in accessing the course of study and other opportunities available through the schools.
Needham Public Schools has a strong commitment to equity. Candidates who also have a strong commitment to this work are encouraged to apply. For more information on our equity work please visit our equity website.
Employment Type
Full-Time
