GEO Academies is a national, non-profit network of open-enrollment, public charter schools committed to empowering students to accelerate their academic pathways, advance their social mobility, and achieve their career and lifelong goals. Our innovative and award-winning K-16 GEO Academies Model begins with personalized, competency-based learning and accelerates students into post-secondary immersion as early as 9th grade. GEO Academies students have the opportunity to earn a full college degree or career credential even before graduating from high school - at no cost to families.

About Us:
GEO 21st Century Charter School-Gary is a free K-12+ public charter school. We are building a team of excellence. We are the top performing charter school in Gary, Indiana. We are one of the few Indiana schools offering an early college program, which allows our qualifying high school students to take real college courses for real college credit, free of charge to our students and their families. Our curriculum and our teaching methods are designed using Core Knowledge in K-8, Project Lead the Way beginning in middle school, and a blended learning model in middle school through high school. We are a TAP school! Please join us if you are committed to excellence, mission driven, and ready to take 21st Century Charter School @ Gary to uncommonly high levels of achievement! Our teachers cultivate in our students the critical thinking skills they will need to understand how the world around them works and to become leaders and agents of positive change in the world.

REPORTS TO/TERM:

Principal and Administrative Team

This is a full time 10-month position.

ESSENTIAL POSITION FUNCTIONS:

A secondary (6-12) teacher is required to perform the following duties:

• Plan and implement a blended learning environment, providing direct and indirect instruction based on the Indiana course requirements
• Participate in all relevant Professional Development
• Maintain high behavioral expectations for all students
• Create an inviting, exciting, innovative and engaging learning environment that develops student critical thinking and problem-solving skills
• Prepare students for strong academic achievement and passing of all required assessments
• Communicate regularly with parents
• Continually assess student progress toward mastery of standards and keep students and parents well informed of student progress by collecting and tracking data, providing daily feedback, weekly assessments, and occasional parent/teacher conferences
• Work with the Special Education teachers and administration to serve special needs students in the classroom
• Attend all grade level and staff meetings and attend designated school functions outside of school hours
• Establish and enforce rules for behavior and procedures for maintaining order among the students for whom you are responsible
• Accept and incorporate feedback and coaching from administrative staff
• Perform necessary duties including but not limited to morning, lunch, dismissal, after-school and early college student support duties
• Dress professionally and uphold all school policies
• Performs other duties, as deemed appropriate, by the principal

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• A bachelor’s degree or higher with at least 24 credit hours in content area
• Valid Indiana Teaching Certificate/License for grades 9-12
• At least two years of successful teaching in an urban environment
• Strong technical skills, particularly in integrating technology in the classroom to drive academic achievement
• Strong classroom management skills

Preferred Qualifications

• A minimum of 2 years of experience working with middle or high school students
• Experience in teaching College & Career Development and/or Guidance Counseling