OST Employment Opportunities with WHES’s 21C Program, Salem Public Schools, Salem, MA [SY 2025-2026]

OST Employment Opportunities with WHESs 21C Program Salem Public Schools Salem MA SY 2025-2026

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 in 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. 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. We invite you to learn more about our strategic plan and core priorities on our website at Heights is seeking teachers support staff and paraprofessionals to work in the 21C after-school program. The program starts on October 6th and will run through May 28th. 21C will serve students in grades 3rd 4th and 5th. The program will run three 10 week sessions. Staff can apply to work all three sessions or just one or two sessions.

Program Session Schedule:

• Fall: 10/6/25- 12/18/25
• Winter: 1/12/26- 3/27/26
• Spring: 3/30/26-5/28

Site Coordinator Role: is the point person in charge of the 21C program and responsible for the well-being of students behavioral challenges and day-to-day program operations.

Site Coordinator Responsibilities:

• Tracking daily student attendance and ensuring that the program complies with the 21CCLC guidelines and data collection needed
• Support with other DESE required documentation and data collection such as staff and youth SAYOs
• Attend DESE 21st CCLC training opportunities or meetings
• Cultivate a welcoming program environment and program culture which includes setting up an inclusive program space daily and breaking down program space
• Support program teachers in implementing PBL and enrichment offerings ensuring SEI strategies and school-day classroom expectations are ensured
• Facilitating and developing program check-in daily circle and closing routines
• Supporting student transitions into the program during the program and during dismissal including tracking and communicating transportation changes.
• Facilitate the program snack which includes tracking and delivering program snacks.
• Support in planning end-of-session program showcases.
• Acting as the point of contact during the program for the community partners parents and staff
• Attend meetings pertaining to 21st CCLC program
• Additional program logistics and other daily needs

Program Academic Tutors : (3-4 positions)

Tutors will work with a group of 5-6 students and support the development of academic foundational skills in ELA and math. Tutors will work with students for 10 weeks 2 days a week. Tutors will collaborate with school day coaches for student grouping and student data.

• Program Tutors: Monday and Tuesday
• 3:15-3:45 small group tutoring

Teachers needed for PBL Blocks & Enrichment Blocks. (3-4 positions)

Hours for these positions are 2:30-4:15. SPS teachers will be paid SPS contracted hourly rate.

• PBL Teachers: Monday and Tuesday
• 3:15-3:45 planning time
• 3:45-5:00 PBL/Program time

• Enrichment Staff: Thursday and/or Friday.
• 3:15-3:45 planning time
• 3:45-5:00 PBL/Program time

21st CCLC Teacher Responsibilities:

• Plan for meaningful differentiated learning experiences with support from district staff coaches & site coordinators
• Plan and implement hands-on Project Based Learning curriculum with guidance from the PBL curriculum team community partners district staff & site coordinators.
• Ensure all outcome goals are on track to be met including academic and social-emotional skill development outcomes.
• Engage and build relationships with students during active hands-on learning workshops
• Support with student behaviors and program management
• Support with DESE required documentation such as program attendance and SAYOs

Group Leaders: Support Staff (Paraporfessional/ Student Success Advisors) (2-4 positions)

Hours for these positions are 2:15-4:35. Group leaders generally work two to four days after school Monday Tuesday Thursday and Friday. SPS support staff will be paid SPS contracted hourly rate.

Group Leaders are essential in supporting students and assisting site coordinators in the day-to-day operations of the program. Group Leaders will be assigned to a group of 12-16 students. Within their assigned group you will lead activities to build students social-emotional skills reinforce behavior expectations and routines and provide academic support. Group leaders will build strong positive youth-adult relationships.

Please reach out to Taylor MacDonald if you are interested in working with the 21C Program.

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 a growth mindset and thrive in a culture of feedback.

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.