STIPEND OPPORTUNITY: Twilight - Content Teacher (Fall 2025)
STIPEND OPPORTUNITY: Twilight - Content Teacher (Fall 2025)
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Job Description
***This is a stipended position available only to current employees whose job status permits participation in additional opportunities. Please note: This is a semester-long role and employment is seasonal and temporary.***
PROGRAM DESCRIPTION: Twilight is a 10-week intensive credit recovery program designed to give high school seniors who have failed courses in any major subject area a chance to earn back credits to graduate on time. It is held twice per year in the Fall and Spring semesters at the John D. OBryant School. Students can choose from a range of core courses and can earn up to two credits per Twilight session.
REPORTS TO: Position reports to the Office of Academics and Professional Learning.
PROGRAM SCHEDULE: Twilight Teachers are required to attend all scheduled planning meetings training and professional development sessions work all required program hours as well as complete all required wrap up duties as indicated in job description.
The Program will run during the following dates and times (see full calendar here):
- Tuesdays & Thursdays 4-7pm (Session 1: 4-5:30; Session 2: 5:30-7)
- Teachers are required to be present at least 15 minutes before program start daily (3:45PM)
- September 30 - December 11 (snow makeup days as needed December 16 & 18)
- One hour staff orientation session September 25 on Zoom 5-6PM
RESPONSIBILITIES:
Twilight Teachers provide students with rigorous instruction that demonstrates the BPS core competencies for effective teaching listed below. Due to the short duration of Twilight and the critical need to boost student learning during this time it is particularly important that teachers in the Twilight program:
- Prepare cognitively-demanding lessons assignments and enrichment activities (requires some planning work outside of regular program hours)
- Differentiate instruction so that all students complete rigorous academic work.
- Establish a productive learning environment and classroom culture in which all students are respected.
- Work with site coordinator to maintain timely student attendance and progress records.
- Work with site coordinator and other program staff to ensure all outcome goals are on track to be met including academic outcomes and social-emotional skill development outcomes.
- Provide students families site coordinators and program staff with relevant and timely data.
- Oversee classroom management; enforce discipline code.
- Care for program materials and resources.
- Perform other related duties as requested.
CORE COMPETENCIES: Using the Rubric of Effective Teaching the Office of Human Capital has identified priority skills and abilities that all BPS teachers should possess:
- Accountability for Student Achievement
- Set ambitious learning goals for all students create cognitively demanding tasks and model the belief that all students can master challenging material through effective effort.
- Assess student understanding regularly with ambitious learning goals in mind and take ownership of making necessary adjustments to instruction to reach goals despite setbacks.
- Display passion and optimism about students content and the teaching profession.
- Communicating Content Knowledge
- Demonstrate mastery of and enthusiasm for content area and the pedagogy it requires.
- Demonstrate understanding for how subject matter applies in real-world settings and connects to other content areas and relevant standards.
- Convey content in creative and engaging ways that align to standards.
- Equitable & Effective Instruction
- Scaffold and differentiate instruction so that all students do complex thinking and rigorous academic work.
- Use instructional practices that are likely to challenge motivate and engage all students and facilitate equitable active student participation.
- Build a productive learning environment where every student participates and is valued as part of the class community.
- Cultural Proficiency
- Actively create and maintain an environment in which students diverse backgrounds identities strengths and challenges are respected.
- Parent/Family Engagement
- Engage with families and build collaborative respectful relationships in service of student learning.
- Professional Reflection & Collaboration
- Regularly reflect on practice seek and respond to feedback and demonstrate self-awareness and commitment to continuous learning and development.
- Participate in and contribute to a collaborative adult learning community.
TERMS:
- BTU Teacher Rate ($56.81) - Total compensation is set based on hours of work including professional development on-site program time and additional duties. (Expected Total - 90 Hours)
- Payroll will be processed after receipt of completed timesheets in the pay period after the completion of each Twilight semester in accordance with BPS payroll schedule.
- Per contractual requirements Managerial Employees may not receive a stipend for this position.
QUALIFICATIONS - REQUIRED:
- Bachelors degree.
- Massachusetts teaching license in Secondary ELA Math Science or History
- Current teacher in the Boston Public Schools.
- At least 1 year of professional teaching experience
- Experience with BPS student information system Aspen
- Current authorization to work in the United States. Candidates must have such authorization by their first day of employment.
QUALIFICATIONS - PREFERRED:
- ESL Teaching License and/or SEI Endorsement
- Prior experience working in Twilight and/or another Expanded Learning program
- Technology-savvy
- BPS values linguistic diversity and believes that candidates who speak another language bring added value to the classroom school and district culture and diversity. BPS is particularly interested in candidates who are fluent in one of BPS official languages: Spanish Creole (Cape Verdean) Creole (Haitian) Chinese Vietnamese Portuguese & Somali.
NONDISCRIMINATION POLICY
The Boston Public Schools in accordance with its nondiscrimination policies does not discriminate on the basis of race color age criminal record physical or mental disability pregnancy or pregnancy-related conditions homelessness sex/gender gender identity religion national origin ancestry sexual orientation genetics natural or protective hairstyle military status immigration status English language proficiency or any other factor prohibited by law in its programs and activities. BPS does not tolerate any form of retaliation or bias-based intimidation threat or harassment that demeans individuals dignity or interferes with their ability to work or learn. If you require an accommodation pursuant to the ADA for the application process please contact the Accommodations Unit at
Employment Type
Grant
