Who You Are:

• You believe that all people are math people.
• Your idea of a fun department meeting is digging into conceptual understanding and solving mathematical equations for a few hours.
• You are undaunted by the fact that some of your students will come to you without yet knowing how to multiply or divide.
• You are a data geek. You examine your student data every day, motivated in equal parts by the gaps yet to be closed and the mastery already attained. Because you’re so data-driven, your students are too. Your students are able to articulate their own strengths and areas for growth because data is such an integral part of every lesson you teach.
• You are seeking a feedback culture - a place where admin and teachers alike are in your classroom every day, pushing you to grow and improve.
• You probably have experience working with English Learners (ELs) (over 80% of our network comes from a Non-English Language Background). Maybe you come from a Non-English Language Background yourself. But if you don’t have this experience, you are a fit if you fully believe our country’s ELs can and will achieve, and that it’s our honor and responsibility to ensure they do.
• When faced with a challenge, your default is to be solutions-oriented.
• You are in this for the long-haul, feel called to work with this specific community, at this specific school. Our kids deserve consistency, and you are committed to providing that for them.
• You have the data, qualitative and quantitative, to show that you get results.
• Your classroom is warm, highly structured, and safe: each student knows exactly what is expected of them at all times, and they model with peers the care you enact.
• You seek to partner with the parents of every student you teach because you know that collaboration is vital to the success of this work.