Academy Teacher Stipend: $3,500** (full week)

 

Summary & Overview of February Empowerment Academies


SEZP’s mission to dramatically improve educational opportunity for Springfield students is marked by our Empowerment Academy programming. Empowerment Academies are an initiative to provide targeted, small-group academic support to middle and high school students during February break. This extended learning time was shown to be an effective support for improvement of student performance through a randomized trial study completed in 2016.

 

For Empowerment Academies, a select number of students at each school will work in small intervention groups led by highly effective, dedicated educators. The small group size and targeted instruction will allow students to receive intensive, personalized academic support tailored to their specific needs. The academy opportunity will also enable teachers to hone intervention delivery skills to more effectively carry out intervention beyond the February vacation experience. Students will be selected based on data that details student academic need and attendance trends.

As we continue to both feel the effects and recover from the COVID-19 pandemic, the data suggests significant learning loss for students across SEZP schools and February Empowerment Academies will play a pivotal role in the following ways:

 

Academy Teacher Overview

 

Empowerment Academies need strong teachers to plan and/or deliver a week-long intervention experience for robust, academic support. Throughout the week, it will be the teacher’s responsibility to diligently monitor student response to interventions and implement a variety of strategies to increase student attendance and engagement. This role requires teachers to attend relevant school-based planning and professional learning sessions and integrate relevant content throughout the entire week of intervention. The focus of the professional learning will allow academy educators to understand the purpose and pedagogy associated with various interventions and learn methods for monitoring response to these interventions.

 

 

Academy Teacher Responsibilities

 

Academy Teacher Requirements

 

Important Dates

 

Academy Teacher Application

 

In the general application, please indicate whether your experience pertains to ELA or math instruction (or both) and describe the traits and experiences that would make you successful as an Empowerment Academy Teacher.

 

**Stipend rates and dates may be subject to specific schools; please consult your Principal or February Academy Coordinator with questions 

 

 

 

NONDISCRIMINATION STATEMENT

 

The Springfield Public Schools does not discriminate in employment on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, genetic information, ancestry, age, disability or military service or marital status. The Springfield Public Schools does not discriminate in admission to, access or treatment in its programs and activities on the basis of race, color, sex, gender identity, religion, national origin, or sexual orientation, disability or homelessness.

 

NOTICE OF SEX NONDISCRIMINATION

 

Springfield Public Schools does not discriminate on the basis of sex and prohibits sex discrimination, including sex-based harassment, in any education program or activity that it operates, as required by Title IX and its regulations, including in admission and employment.

 

Inquiries about Title IX may be referred to the Springfield Public Schools’ Title IX Coordinator, titleix@springfieldpublicschools.com, the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights at https://ocrcas.ed.gov/contact-ocr, or both.

 

The Springfield Public Schools Title IX Coordinator is Katie O’Sullivan, Senior Administrator of Human Resources, 1550 Main Street, Springfield, MA 01103, 413-787-7100 ext. 55428, titleix@springfieldpublicschools.com.

 

Springfield Public School’s sex nondiscrimination policy and grievance procedures can be located on the Springfield Public Schools website, www.springfieldpublicschools.com/non-discrimination

 

To report information about conduct that may constitute sex discrimination or make a complaint of sex discrimination under Title IX, please refer to titleix@springfieldpublicschools.com