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START DATE: Immediate Hire

Overview of Position: A strong and dedicated faculty is paramount to best serving our students and families and to establishing Unity as an exemplary school. Most critically, our faculty equip students with the knowledge and skills needed to experience secondary and postsecondary success, including the desire and capacity to learn independently, think critically, and communicate proficiently.  Our Health & Physical Education Teachers have the privilege and responsibility of delivering on these outcomes as they advance students’ knowledge and skills to lead healthy and active lives.

Brief Overview of our School: Unity’s Core Purpose is to provide all students with an exceptional educational experience that empowers them to lead fulfilling lives.

As a small, open-enrollment, community-based  charter school that proudly serves the families of central Brooklyn in grades 6-12, a Unity education is best described as personalized, inclusive, well-rounded, and keenly focused on each child’s long-term growth and development as skillful learners and whole-hearted human beings.

Given these qualities, Unity’s most important resource as a school is the talent and dedication of our faculty and staff.  At its core, a school is only as good as the learning experience of students over the course of each day.  We invest significant time and resources to ensure that we, as a team, are providing all of our students with daily learning experiences that are healthy, safe, engaging, supportive, and appropriately challenging.

We aim for each and every one of our students, upon graduating from Unity, to be empowered with the skills, knowledge, experiences, and disposition to succeed in their postsecondary endeavors, lead fulfilling lives, and positively impact their communities.

Our Recent Accomplishments: Regardless of where students are academically or otherwise as they enter our school, our focus is on accelerating growth and on cultivating long-term academic and non-academic success.  This focus has reaped impressive results for our students and families in recent years. Among our accomplishments:

• 94% of our first three graduating classes earned their high school diploma in four years.
• 100% of our graduates had formal college and career plans with a college matriculation rate of 76%. This compares favorably to a 58% college matriculation rate for students in NYC.
• 95% of our graduates complete at least one Advanced Placement (AP) course in high school. This compares favorably with the 33% of NYC graduates who enroll in AP courses during their high school tenure.
• Our students who comprise subgroups that traditionally have been least effectively served by our education system, including students classified as economically disadvantaged, Black, Latino, and students with disabilities, have consistently outperformed their district and state peers in our high school graduation rates.
• In holding true to our belief in providing a truly empowering education, a vast majority of our students experience the following over their seven years at Unity:
  • After-school extra-curricular activities, including athletics and clubs;
  • Formal community service initiatives;
  • End-of-year middle school Roundtable presentation – a 45-minute oral presentation given to families, Unity faculty, and community members, and;
  • Intensive counseling in College & Career Readiness beginning in 9th grade.

Key Design Elements: Collectively, these elements reflect our beliefs on what makes for an exceptional secondary education in today’s world:

• A culturally relevant and rigorous college-ready curriculum that is rooted in the liberal arts and sciences, including high-school level Regents courses in middle school and 11 Advanced Placement courses available in high school
• A skillful team of devoted educators who inspire students to be their best selves, coupling high expectations with high support, and serving as role models for students. Unity’s educators are lifelong learners who take the utmost pride in perfecting their craft:
  • Over 50% of our teachers coach athletic teams, lead enrichment clubs, or teach summer courses
  • Our students have benefitted from a teacher retention rate of 80% over the past two years
• Expanded time for learning, including a 12-month calendar year for select students that allows for differentiation, universal growth, enrichment, and acceleration:
  • 25% of our students experience academic and extracurricular programming over a full calendar year; this subpopulation represents students who most benefit from more intensive support in order that they may meet NYS learning standards, earn a high school Regents diploma, and succeed in their postsecondary pursuits
• Highly customized support and specialized counseling throughout students’ time at Unity and beyond – this includes a staff-to-student ratio of 5:1 with a majority of courses as co-taught, along with intensive counseling from our five full-time academic counselors and four full-time social workers
• A positive and supportive discipline system & school culture built on a framework of Positive Behavioral Interventions & Supports (PBIS) in which sound character traits, healthy habits, and strong socio-emotional skills are explicitly taught and cultivated by compassionate adults:
  • 100% of students having designated advisors that they meet with weekly
  • Best practices in restorative justice are commonly utilized, including circles and mediation
• A wide range of extracurricular offerings, enrichment courses, and community service opportunities that expose students to potential passions and pursuits, including:
  • One of the largest athletic programs among public schools in Brooklyn, with 18 athletic teams that span grades 6-12
  • Performing and visual arts courses in theatre, art & design, dance, as well as world languages and speech & debate
  • Over 20 elective clubs offered to students after school and over the summer, including but not limited to student government, culinary arts, personal fitness, film-making, peer mediation, blogging, climbing, and gaming

Core Responsibilities: Key responsibilities of Unity’s teachers include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Plan a rigorous and engaging curricula that caters to the unique physical talents, needs, and multiple intelligences of students
• Collaborate in the planning and implementation of a rigorous and engaging curricula that cater to the unique physical talents, needs, and multiple intelligences of students
• Execute specially designed lesson plans that are guided by clear objectives, focus on conceptual understanding, and that are assessed routinely for student mastery
• Provide remediation and acceleration based on formative and summative assessments so that individual students are appropriately challenged according to their zones of proximal development
• Collaborate with colleagues to create, implement, and refine schoolwide and classroom-based systems, routines, and procedures
• Ensure that classroom time is utilized through sound management practices and by developing strong and trusting relationships with students
• Develop, implement, and/or manage individualized behavioral intervention plans to support students meeting established academic and non-academic goals
• Actively participate in opportunities to strengthen their own pedagogical skills as well as contribute to the learning of colleagues
• Contribute to the school’s smooth and efficient operation by fulfilling required administrative duties and responsibilities and maintaining open and proactive communication with colleagues
• Build strong relationships with students and families as an Advisor and through consistent communication and in following through on commitments

As professionals, all Unity teachers may participate in the school’s innovative teacher-career ladder, which provides a formal and transparent pathway for teachers to:

• develop their craft and improve as educators through multiple forms of support and training
• assume titles with commensurate responsibilities while remaining classroom practitioners
• be generously compensated and formally recognized for their positive contributions to the school

Core Qualifications: An ideal candidate for this position is equipped with:

• At least two years of formal teaching experience in New York
• A proven track record in accelerating student growth and mastery
• A demonstrated capacity to plan rigorous, engaging, and culturally responsive curricula that align to Common Core standards
• A balance of high expectations and high support, a growth mindset, and an innate joy in working with adolescents
• Strong interpersonal and classroom management skills with a focus on building strong relationships with students and families
• An openness and responsiveness to constructive feedback and a strong commitment to continuous improvement and professional growth
• A strong work ethic that features organization, multi-tasking, flexibility, an orientation toward solutions, and a pride in meeting deadlines
• Expertise in working with diverse populations of students and families, and in differentiating instruction to fully support the needs of diverse learners
• Strong written and oral communication skills and experience working collaboratively in team settings
• Approaches the profession with maturity, humility, versatility and, of course, a sense of humor
• A Master’s Degree and certified as a teacher in New York

To Apply: If you seek to contribute meaningfully to the development and successful operation of an innovative public school with a strong team of talented educators, please visit http://www.unityprep.org/careers to begin the application process.

As an equal opportunity employer, Unity Preparatory Charter School of Brooklyn hires without consideration to race, religion, creed, color, national origin, age, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, or disability.

Apply Here

Apply Here

Overview of Position: A strong and dedicated faculty is paramount to best serving our students and families and to establishing Unity as an exemplary school. Most critically, our faculty equip students with the knowledge and skills needed to experience secondary and postsecondary success, including the desire and capacity to learn independently, think critically, and communicate proficiently.  Our Math teachers have the privilege and responsibility of delivering on these outcomes as they advance students’ knowledge and skills as mathematicians.

Overview of Unity – Our Model and Approach: Unity Preparatory Charter School of Brooklyn (Unity) is a tuition-free, open-enrollment, independent charter school that offers a progressive education in the liberal arts & sciences to over 500 students in grades 6-12.  As a community-based school, we proudly serve the communities of central Brooklyn in New York City.  Our middle school and high school campuses are located in the neighborhoods of Bedford Stuyvesant and Williamsburg, respectively.

Unity’s mission is to empower students as scholars and citizens so they may lead fulfilling academic, personal, and professional lives.  We accomplish our mission through the integration of seven key elements that serve as the backbone of our school’s design.  Collectively, these elements reflect our beliefs on what makes for an exceptional secondary education in today’s world:

1. A Grades 6-12 College Preparatory Curriculum:​ a college-preparatory liberal arts and sciences program of study in mathematics, English language arts (ELA), science, and history that fosters in students the desire and capacity to learn independently, think critically, and communicate proficiently so that they are fully prepared to succeed in their postsecondary studies
2. Excellent Teaching:​ ​​an enthusiastic faculty of expert educators who are demonstrably successful in promoting student learning, couple high expectations with high support, go above and beyond the call of duty for students as scholars and as citizens, and serve as role models for students as life-long learners and as individuals who take the utmost pride in perfecting their craft
3. More Time for Learning:​ ​​an extended day, week, and year for academic enrichment and extracurricular activities that deepen learning and engagement, accelerate academic growth, and expose students to new pursuits
4. Intensive and Differentiated Academic Support:​ customized settings and support provided by caring specialists for remediation and acceleration, including small class sizes, integrated co-teaching, literacy interventions, after-school and weekend tutoring, as well as advanced-level course offerings at our middle school and high school
5. Ample Enrichment Courses and Extra-Curricular Activities:​ enrichment courses in the performing arts, visual arts, computer science, and foreign languages, as well as elective clubs, athletic teams, internships, and other “beyond-the-classroom” activities that serve to reinforce what students learn in their core courses, accommodate individual student interests, and develop important professional and citizenship skills through real-world, meaningful application
6. A Positive and Supportive School Culture:​ ​​a culture built on a framework of Positive Behavioral Interventions & Supports (PBIS) in which compassionate adults explicitly guide students in the following:
   • modeling the behaviors that contribute to a positive and productive learning environment
   • developing socio-emotional skills needed to be successful, including how to manage emotions, reduce stress, make healthy decisions, and learn from one’s mistakes

7. Active Family and Community Involvement: ample opportunities for family engagement and community service that promotes open communication, meaningful collaboration, and active involvement and service within Unity’s community and beyond

Our Recent Accomplishments: Regardless of where students are academically or otherwise as they enter our school, our focus is on accelerating growth and on cultivating long-term academic and non-academic success.  This focus has reaped impressive results for our students and families in recent years. Among our accomplishments:

• 95% of our first two graduating classes earned their high school diploma in four years.
• 100% of our graduates had formal college and career plans with a college matriculation rate of 76%. This compares favorably to a 58% college matriculation rate for students in NYC.
• 95% of our graduates complete at least one Advanced Placement (AP) course in high school. This compares favorably with the 33% of NYC graduates who enroll in AP courses during their high school tenure.
• Our students who comprise subgroups that are traditionally least effectively served by our education system, including students classified as economically disadvantaged, Black, Latino, and students with disabilities, have consistently outperformed their district and state peers on state exams and in our high school graduation rates.
• Our 8th grade students have consistently outperformed their district peers in mathematics and ELA on state exams.
• In holding true to our belief in providing a truly empowering education, a vast majority of our students experience the following over their seven years at Unity:
  • After-school extra-curricular activities, including athletics and clubs;
  • Formal community service initiatives;
  • End-of-year Roundtable presentation – a 45-minute oral presentation given to families, Unity faculty, and community members, and;
  • Intensive counseling in College & Career Readiness beginning in 9th grade.

Core Responsibilities: Key responsibilities of Unity’s teachers include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Plan a rigorous and engaging curricula that caters to the unique physical talents, needs, and multiple intelligences of students
• Collaborate in the planning and implementation of a rigorous and engaging curricula that cater to the unique physical talents, needs, and multiple intelligences of students
• Execute specially designed lesson plans that are guided by clear objectives, focus on conceptual understanding, and that are assessed routinely for student mastery
• Provide remediation and acceleration based on formative and summative assessments so that individual students are appropriately challenged according to their zones of proximal development
• Collaborate with colleagues to create, implement, and refine schoolwide and classroom-based systems, routines, and procedures
• Ensure that classroom time is utilized through sound management practices and by developing strong and trusting relationships with students
• Develop, implement, and/or manage individualized behavioral intervention plans to support students meeting established academic and non-academic goals
• Actively participate in opportunities to strengthen their own pedagogical skills as well as contribute to the learning of colleagues
• Contribute to the school’s smooth and efficient operation by fulfilling required administrative duties and responsibilities and maintaining open and proactive communication with colleagues
• Build strong relationships with students and families as an Advisor and through consistent communication and in following through on commitments

As professionals, all Unity teachers may participate in the school’s innovative teacher-career ladder, which provides a formal and transparent pathway for teachers to:

• develop their craft and improve as educators through multiple forms of support and training
• assume titles with commensurate responsibilities while remaining classroom practitioners
• be generously compensated and formally recognized for their positive contributions to the school

Core Qualifications: An ideal candidate for this position is equipped with:

• At least two years of formal teaching experience in New York
• A proven track record in accelerating student growth and mastery
• A demonstrated capacity to plan rigorous, engaging, and culturally responsive curricula that align to Common Core standards
• A balance of high expectations and high support, a growth mindset, and an innate joy in working with adolescents
• Strong interpersonal and classroom management skills with a focus on building strong relationships with students and families
• An openness and responsiveness to constructive feedback and a strong commitment to continuous improvement and professional growth
• A strong work ethic that features organization, multi-tasking, flexibility, an orientation toward solutions, and a pride in meeting deadlines
• Expertise in working with diverse populations of students and families, and in differentiating instruction to fully support the needs of diverse learners
• Strong written and oral communication skills and experience working collaboratively in team settings
• Approaches the profession with maturity, humility, versatility and, of course, a sense of humor
• A Master’s Degree and certified as a teacher in New York

To Apply: If you seek to contribute meaningfully to the development and successful operation of an innovative public school with a strong team of talented educators, please visit http://www.unityprep.org/careers to begin the application process.

As an equal opportunity employer, Unity Preparatory Charter School of Brooklyn hires without consideration to race, religion, creed, color, national origin, age, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, or disability

Apply Here

Apply Here

Overview of Position: A strong and dedicated faculty is paramount to best serving our students and families and to establishing Unity as an exemplary school. Most critically, our faculty equip students with the knowledge and skills needed to experience secondary and postsecondary success, including the desire and capacity to learn independently, think critically, and communicate proficiently.  Our Dance Teachers have the privilege and responsibility of delivering on these outcomes as they advance students’ skills in movement and dance.

Brief Overview of our School: Unity’s Core Purpose is to provide all students with an exceptional educational experience that empowers them to lead fulfilling lives.

As a small, open-enrollment, community-based  charter school that proudly serves the families of central Brooklyn in grades 6-12, a Unity education is best described as personalized, inclusive, well-rounded, and keenly focused on each child’s long-term growth and development as skillful learners and whole-hearted human beings.

Given these qualities, Unity’s most important resource as a school is the talent and dedication of our faculty and staff.  At its core, a school is only as good as the learning experience of students over the course of each day.  We invest significant time and resources to ensure that we, as a team, are providing all of our students with daily learning experiences that are healthy, safe, engaging, supportive, and appropriately challenging.

We aim for each and every one of our students, upon graduating from Unity, to be empowered with the skills, knowledge, experiences, and disposition to succeed in their postsecondary endeavors, lead fulfilling lives, and positively impact their communities.

Our Recent Accomplishments: Regardless of where students are academically or otherwise as they enter our school, our focus is on accelerating growth and on cultivating long-term academic and non-academic success.  This focus has reaped impressive results for our students and families in recent years. Among our accomplishments:

• 94% of our first three graduating classes earned their high school diploma in four years.
• 100% of our graduates had formal college and career plans with a college matriculation rate of 76%. This compares favorably to a 58% college matriculation rate for students in NYC.
• 95% of our graduates complete at least one Advanced Placement (AP) course in high school. This compares favorably with the 33% of NYC graduates who enroll in AP courses during their high school tenure.
• Our students who comprise subgroups that traditionally have been least effectively served by our education system, including students classified as economically disadvantaged, Black, Latino, and students with disabilities, have consistently outperformed their district and state peers in our high school graduation rates.
• In holding true to our belief in providing a truly empowering education, a vast majority of our students experience the following over their seven years at Unity:
  • After-school extra-curricular activities, including athletics and clubs;
  • Formal community service initiatives;
  • End-of-year middle school Roundtable presentation – a 45-minute oral presentation given to families, Unity faculty, and community members, and;
  • Intensive counseling in College & Career Readiness beginning in 9th grade.

Key Design Elements: Collectively, these elements reflect our beliefs on what makes for an exceptional secondary education in today’s world:

• A culturally relevant and rigorous college-ready curriculum that is rooted in the liberal arts and sciences, including high-school level Regents courses in middle school and 11 Advanced Placement courses available in high school
• A skillful team of devoted educators who inspire students to be their best selves, coupling high expectations with high support, and serving as role models for students. Unity’s educators are lifelong learners who take the utmost pride in perfecting their craft:
  • Over 50% of our teachers coach athletic teams, lead enrichment clubs, or teach summer courses
  • Our students have benefitted from a teacher retention rate of 80% over the past two years
• Expanded time for learning, including a 12-month calendar year for select students that allows for differentiation, universal growth, enrichment, and acceleration:
  • 25% of our students experience academic and extracurricular programming over a full calendar year; this subpopulation represents students who most benefit from more intensive support in order that they may meet NYS learning standards, earn a high school Regents diploma, and succeed in their postsecondary pursuits
• Highly customized support and specialized counseling throughout students’ time at Unity and beyond – this includes a staff-to-student ratio of 5:1 with a majority of courses as co-taught, along with intensive counseling from our five full-time academic counselors and four full-time social workers
• A positive and supportive discipline system & school culture built on a framework of Positive Behavioral Interventions & Supports (PBIS) in which sound character traits, healthy habits, and strong socio-emotional skills are explicitly taught and cultivated by compassionate adults:
  • 100% of students having designated advisors that they meet with weekly
  • Best practices in restorative justice are commonly utilized, including circles and mediation
• A wide range of extracurricular offerings, enrichment courses, and community service opportunities that expose students to potential passions and pursuits, including:
  • One of the largest athletic programs among public schools in Brooklyn, with 18 athletic teams that span grades 6-12
  • Performing and visual arts courses in theatre, art & design, dance, as well as world languages and speech & debate
  • Over 20 elective clubs offered to students after school and over the summer, including but not limited to student government, culinary arts, personal fitness, film-making, peer mediation, blogging, climbing, and gaming

Core Responsibilities: Key responsibilities of Unity’s teachers include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Plan a rigorous and engaging curricula that caters to the unique physical talents, needs, and multiple intelligences of students
• Collaborate in the planning and implementation of a rigorous and engaging curricula that cater to the unique physical talents, needs, and multiple intelligences of students
• Execute specially designed lesson plans that are guided by clear objectives, focus on conceptual understanding, and that are assessed routinely for student mastery
• Provide remediation and acceleration based on formative and summative assessments so that individual students are appropriately challenged according to their zones of proximal development
• Collaborate with colleagues to create, implement, and refine schoolwide and classroom-based systems, routines, and procedures
• Ensure that classroom time is utilized through sound management practices and by developing strong and trusting relationships with students
• Develop, implement, and/or manage individualized behavioral intervention plans to support students meeting established academic and non-academic goals
• Actively participate in opportunities to strengthen their own pedagogical skills as well as contribute to the learning of colleagues
• Contribute to the school’s smooth and efficient operation by fulfilling required administrative duties and responsibilities and maintaining open and proactive communication with colleagues
• Build strong relationships with students and families as an Advisor and through consistent communication and in following through on commitments

As professionals, all Unity teachers may participate in the school’s innovative teacher-career ladder, which provides a formal and transparent pathway for teachers to:

• develop their craft and improve as educators through multiple forms of support and training
• assume titles with commensurate responsibilities while remaining classroom practitioners
• be generously compensated and formally recognized for their positive contributions to the school

Core Qualifications: An ideal candidate for this position is equipped with:

• At least two years of formal teaching experience in New York
• A proven track record in accelerating student growth and mastery
• A demonstrated capacity to plan rigorous, engaging, and culturally responsive curricula that align to Common Core standards
• A balance of high expectations and high support, a growth mindset, and an innate joy in working with adolescents
• Strong interpersonal and classroom management skills with a focus on building strong relationships with students and families
• An openness and responsiveness to constructive feedback and a strong commitment to continuous improvement and professional growth
• A strong work ethic that features organization, multi-tasking, flexibility, an orientation toward solutions, and a pride in meeting deadlines
• Expertise in working with diverse populations of students and families, and in differentiating instruction to fully support the needs of diverse learners
• Strong written and oral communication skills and experience working collaboratively in team settings
• Approaches the profession with maturity, humility, versatility and, of course, a sense of humor
• A Master’s Degree and certified as a teacher in New York

To Apply: If you seek to contribute meaningfully to the development and successful operation of an innovative public school with a strong team of talented educators, please visit http://www.unityprep.org/careers to begin the application process.

As an equal opportunity employer, Unity Preparatory Charter School of Brooklyn hires without consideration to race, religion, creed, color, national origin, age, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, or disability.

Apply Here

Apply Here

START DATE: August 2023

Overview of Position: A strong and dedicated faculty is paramount to best serving our students and families and to establishing Unity as an exemplary school. Most critically, our faculty equip students with the knowledge and skills needed to experience secondary and postsecondary success, including the desire and capacity to learn independently, think critically, and communicate proficiently.  Our Theatre Teacher has the privilege and responsibility of delivering on these outcomes as they advance students’ knowledge and skills as burgeoning actors and performers.

Brief Overview of our School: Unity’s Core Purpose is to provide all students with an exceptional educational experience that empowers them to lead fulfilling lives.

 As a small, open-enrollment, community-based  charter school that proudly serves the families of central Brooklyn in grades 6-12, a Unity education is best described as personalized, inclusive, well-rounded, and keenly focused on each child’s long-term growth and development as skillful learners and whole-hearted human beings.

Given these qualities, Unity’s most important resource as a school is the talent and dedication of our faculty and staff.  At its core, a school is only as good as the learning experience of students over the course of each day.  We invest significant time and resources to ensure that we, as a team, are providing all of our students with daily learning experiences that are healthy, safe, engaging, supportive, and appropriately challenging.

We aim for each and every one of our students, upon graduating from Unity, to be empowered with the skills, knowledge, experiences, and disposition to succeed in their postsecondary endeavors, lead fulfilling lives, and positively impact their communities.

Our Recent Accomplishments: Regardless of where students are academically or otherwise as they enter our school, our focus is on accelerating growth and on cultivating long-term academic and non-academic success.  This focus has reaped impressive results for our students and families in recent years. Among our accomplishments:

• 94% of our first three graduating classes earned their high school diploma in four years.
• 100% of our graduates had formal college and career plans with a college matriculation rate of 76%. This compares favorably to a 58% college matriculation rate for students in NYC.
• 95% of our graduates complete at least one Advanced Placement (AP) course in high school. This compares favorably with the 33% of NYC graduates who enroll in AP courses during their high school tenure.
• Our students who comprise subgroups that traditionally have been least effectively served by our education system, including students classified as economically disadvantaged, Black, Latino, and students with disabilities, have consistently outperformed their district and state peers in our high school graduation rates.
• In holding true to our belief in providing a truly empowering education, a vast majority of our students experience the following over their seven years at Unity:
  • After-school extra-curricular activities, including athletics and clubs;
  • Formal community service initiatives;
  • End-of-year middle school Roundtable presentation – a 45-minute oral presentation given to families, Unity faculty, and community members, and;
  • Intensive counseling in College & Career Readiness beginning in 9th grade.

 Key Design Elements: Collectively, these elements reflect our beliefs on what makes for an exceptional secondary education in today’s world:

• A culturally relevant and rigorous college-ready curriculum that is rooted in the liberal arts and sciences, including high-school level Regents courses in middle school and 11 Advanced Placement courses available in high school
• A skillful team of devoted educators who inspire students to be their best selves, coupling high expectations with high support, and serving as role models for students. Unity’s educators are lifelong learners who take the utmost pride in perfecting their craft:
  • Over 50% of our teachers coach athletic teams, lead enrichment clubs, or teach summer courses
  • Our students have benefitted from a teacher retention rate of 80% over the past two years
• Expanded time for learning, including a 12-month calendar year for select students that allows for differentiation, universal growth, enrichment, and acceleration:
  • 25% of our students experience academic and extracurricular programming over a full calendar year; this subpopulation represents students who most benefit from more intensive support in order that they may meet NYS learning standards, earn a high school Regents diploma, and succeed in their postsecondary pursuits
• Highly customized support and specialized counseling throughout students’ time at Unity and beyond – this includes a staff-to-student ratio of 5:1 with a majority of courses as co-taught, along with intensive counseling from our five full-time academic counselors and four full-time social workers
• A positive and supportive discipline system & school culture built on a framework of Positive Behavioral Interventions & Supports (PBIS) in which sound character traits, healthy habits, and strong socio-emotional skills are explicitly taught and cultivated by compassionate adults:
  • 100% of students having designated advisors that they meet with weekly
  • Best practices in restorative justice are commonly utilized, including circles and mediation
• A wide range of extracurricular offerings, enrichment courses, and community service opportunities that expose students to potential passions and pursuits, including:
  • One of the largest athletic programs among public schools in Brooklyn, with 18 athletic teams that span grades 6-12
  • Performing and visual arts courses in theatre, art & design, dance, as well as world languages and speech & debate
  • Over 20 elective clubs offered to students after school and over the summer, including but not limited to student government, culinary arts, personal fitness, film-making, peer mediation, blogging, climbing, and gaming

Core Responsibilities: Key responsibilities of Unity’s teachers include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Plan a rigorous and engaging curricula that caters to the unique physical talents, needs, and multiple intelligences of students
• Collaborate in the planning and implementation of a rigorous and engaging curricula that cater to the unique physical talents, needs, and multiple intelligences of students
• Execute specially designed lesson plans that are guided by clear objectives, focus on conceptual understanding, and that are assessed routinely for student mastery
• Provide remediation and acceleration based on formative and summative assessments so that individual students are appropriately challenged according to their zones of proximal development
• Collaborate with colleagues to create, implement, and refine schoolwide and classroom-based systems, routines, and procedures
• Ensure that classroom time is utilized through sound management practices and by developing strong and trusting relationships with students
• Develop, implement, and/or manage individualized behavioral intervention plans to support students meeting established academic and non-academic goals
• Actively participate in opportunities to strengthen their own pedagogical skills as well as contribute to the learning of colleagues
• Contribute to the school’s smooth and efficient operation by fulfilling required administrative duties and responsibilities and maintaining open and proactive communication with colleagues
• Build strong relationships with students and families as an Advisor and through consistent communication and in following through on commitments

As professionals, all Unity teachers may participate in the school’s innovative teacher-career ladder, which provides a formal and transparent pathway for teachers to:

• develop their craft and improve as educators through multiple forms of support and training
• assume titles with commensurate responsibilities while remaining classroom practitioners
• be generously compensated and formally recognized for their positive contributions to the school

Core Qualifications: An ideal candidate for this position is equipped with:

• At least two years of formal teaching experience in New York
• A proven track record in accelerating student growth and mastery
• A demonstrated capacity to plan rigorous, engaging, and culturally responsive curricula that align to Common Core standards
• A balance of high expectations and high support, a growth mindset, and an innate joy in working with adolescents
• Strong interpersonal and classroom management skills with a focus on building strong relationships with students and families
• An openness and responsiveness to constructive feedback and a strong commitment to continuous improvement and professional growth
• A strong work ethic that features organization, multi-tasking, flexibility, an orientation toward solutions, and a pride in meeting deadlines
• Expertise in working with diverse populations of students and families, and in differentiating instruction to fully support the needs of diverse learners
• Strong written and oral communication skills and experience working collaboratively in team settings
• Approaches the profession with maturity, humility, versatility and, of course, a sense of humor
• A Master’s Degree and certified as a teacher in New York

To Apply: If you seek to contribute meaningfully to the development and successful operation of an innovative public school with a strong team of talented educators, please visit http://www.unityprep.org/careers to begin the application process.

As an equal opportunity employer, Unity Preparatory Charter School of Brooklyn hires without consideration to race, religion, creed, color, national origin, age, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, or disability

Apply Here

Apply Here

START DATE: August 2023

Overview of Position: A strong and dedicated faculty is paramount to best serving our students and families and to establishing Unity as an exemplary school. Most critically, our faculty equip students with the knowledge and skills needed to experience secondary and postsecondary success, including the desire and capacity to learn independently, think critically, and communicate proficiently.  Our Spanish Teachers have the privilege and responsibility of delivering on these outcomes as they advance students’ knowledge and skills as readers, writers, speakers, and listeners in the Spanish language. 

Brief Overview of our School: Unity’s Core Purpose is to provide all students with an exceptional educational experience that empowers them to lead fulfilling lives.

As a small, open-enrollment, community-based  charter school that proudly serves the families of central Brooklyn in grades 6-12, a Unity education is best described as personalized, inclusive, well-rounded, and keenly focused on each child’s long-term growth and development as skillful learners and whole-hearted human beings.

Given these qualities, Unity’s most important resource as a school is the talent and dedication of our faculty and staff.  At its core, a school is only as good as the learning experience of students over the course of each day.  We invest significant time and resources to ensure that we, as a team, are providing all of our students with daily learning experiences that are healthy, safe, engaging, supportive, and appropriately challenging.

We aim for each and every one of our students, upon graduating from Unity, to be empowered with the skills, knowledge, experiences, and disposition to succeed in their postsecondary endeavors, lead fulfilling lives, and positively impact their communities.

Our Recent Accomplishments: Regardless of where students are academically or otherwise as they enter our school, our focus is on accelerating growth and on cultivating long-term academic and non-academic success.  This focus has reaped impressive results for our students and families in recent years. Among our accomplishments:

• 94% of our first three graduating classes earned their high school diploma in four years.
• 100% of our graduates had formal college and career plans with a college matriculation rate of 76%. This compares favorably to a 58% college matriculation rate for students in NYC.
• 95% of our graduates complete at least one Advanced Placement (AP) course in high school. This compares favorably with the 33% of NYC graduates who enroll in AP courses during their high school tenure.
• Our students who comprise subgroups that traditionally have been least effectively served by our education system, including students classified as economically disadvantaged, Black, Latino, and students with disabilities, have consistently outperformed their district and state peers in our high school graduation rates.
• In holding true to our belief in providing a truly empowering education, a vast majority of our students experience the following over their seven years at Unity:
  • After-school extra-curricular activities, including athletics and clubs;
  • Formal community service initiatives;
  • End-of-year middle school Roundtable presentation – a 45-minute oral presentation given to families, Unity faculty, and community members, and;
  • Intensive counseling in College & Career Readiness beginning in 9th grade.

Key Design Elements: Collectively, these elements reflect our beliefs on what makes for an exceptional secondary education in today’s world:

• A culturally relevant and rigorous college-ready curriculum that is rooted in the liberal arts and sciences, including high-school level Regents courses in middle school and 11 Advanced Placement courses available in high school
• A skillful team of devoted educators who inspire students to be their best selves, coupling high expectations with high support, and serving as role models for students. Unity’s educators are lifelong learners who take the utmost pride in perfecting their craft:
  • Over 50% of our teachers coach athletic teams, lead enrichment clubs, or teach summer courses
  • Our students have benefitted from a teacher retention rate of 80% over the past two years
• Expanded time for learning, including a 12-month calendar year for select students that allows for differentiation, universal growth, enrichment, and acceleration:
  • 25% of our students experience academic and extracurricular programming over a full calendar year; this subpopulation represents students who most benefit from more intensive support in order that they may meet NYS learning standards, earn a high school Regents diploma, and succeed in their postsecondary pursuits
• Highly customized support and specialized counseling throughout students’ time at Unity and beyond – this includes a staff-to-student ratio of 5:1 with a majority of courses as co-taught, along with intensive counseling from our five full-time academic counselors and four full-time social workers
• A positive and supportive discipline system & school culture built on a framework of Positive Behavioral Interventions & Supports (PBIS) in which sound character traits, healthy habits, and strong socio-emotional skills are explicitly taught and cultivated by compassionate adults:
  • 100% of students having designated advisors that they meet with weekly
  • Best practices in restorative justice are commonly utilized, including circles and mediation
• A wide range of extracurricular offerings, enrichment courses, and community service opportunities that expose students to potential passions and pursuits, including:
  • One of the largest athletic programs among public schools in Brooklyn, with 18 athletic teams that span grades 6-12
  • Performing and visual arts courses in theatre, art & design, dance, as well as world languages and speech & debate
  • Over 20 elective clubs offered to students after school and over the summer, including but not limited to student government, culinary arts, personal fitness, film-making, peer mediation, blogging, climbing, and gaming

Core Responsibilities: Key responsibilities of Unity’s teachers include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Plan a rigorous and engaging curricula that caters to the unique physical talents, needs, and multiple intelligences of students
• Collaborate in the planning and implementation of a rigorous and engaging curricula that cater to the unique physical talents, needs, and multiple intelligences of students
• Execute specially designed lesson plans that are guided by clear objectives, focus on conceptual understanding, and that are assessed routinely for student mastery
• Provide remediation and acceleration based on formative and summative assessments so that individual students are appropriately challenged according to their zones of proximal development
• Collaborate with colleagues to create, implement, and refine schoolwide and classroom-based systems, routines, and procedures
• Ensure that classroom time is utilized through sound management practices and by developing strong and trusting relationships with students
• Develop, implement, and/or manage individualized behavioral intervention plans to support students meeting established academic and non-academic goals
• Actively participate in opportunities to strengthen their own pedagogical skills as well as contribute to the learning of colleagues
• Contribute to the school’s smooth and efficient operation by fulfilling required administrative duties and responsibilities and maintaining open and proactive communication with colleagues
• Build strong relationships with students and families as an Advisor and through consistent communication and in following through on commitments

As professionals, all Unity teachers may participate in the school’s innovative teacher-career ladder, which provides a formal and transparent pathway for teachers to:

• develop their craft and improve as educators through multiple forms of support and training
• assume titles with commensurate responsibilities while remaining classroom practitioners
• be generously compensated and formally recognized for their positive contributions to the school

Core Qualifications: An ideal candidate for this position is equipped with:

• At least two years of formal teaching experience in New York
• A proven track record in accelerating student growth and mastery
• A demonstrated capacity to plan rigorous, engaging, and culturally responsive curricula that align to Common Core standards
• A balance of high expectations and high support, a growth mindset, and an innate joy in working with adolescents
• Strong interpersonal and classroom management skills with a focus on building strong relationships with students and families
• An openness and responsiveness to constructive feedback and a strong commitment to continuous improvement and professional growth
• A strong work ethic that features organization, multi-tasking, flexibility, an orientation toward solutions, and a pride in meeting deadlines
• Expertise in working with diverse populations of students and families, and in differentiating instruction to fully support the needs of diverse learners
• Strong written and oral communication skills and experience working collaboratively in team settings
• Approaches the profession with maturity, humility, versatility and, of course, a sense of humor
• Fluency in both Spanish and English
• A Master’s Degree and certified as a teacher in New York

To Apply: If you seek to contribute meaningfully to the development and successful operation of an innovative public school with a strong team of talented educators, please visit http://www.unityprep.org/careers to begin the application process.

As an equal opportunity employer, Unity Preparatory Charter School of Brooklyn hires without consideration to race, religion, creed, color, national origin, age, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, or disability.

Apply Here

Apply Here

START DATE: August 2023

Overview of Position: A strong and dedicated faculty is paramount to best serving our students and families and to establishing Unity as an exemplary school. Most critically, our faculty equip students with the knowledge and skills needed to experience secondary and postsecondary success, including the desire and capacity to learn independently, think critically, and communicate proficiently.  Our Health Teachers have the privilege and responsibility of delivering on these outcomes as they advance students’ knowledge and skills to lead healthy and active lives.

Brief Overview of our School: Unity’s Core Purpose is to provide all students with an exceptional educational experience that empowers them to lead fulfilling lives.

As a small, open-enrollment, community-based  charter school that proudly serves the families of central Brooklyn in grades 6-12, a Unity education is best described as personalized, inclusive, well-rounded, and keenly focused on each child’s long-term growth and development as skillful learners and whole-hearted human beings.

Given these qualities, Unity’s most important resource as a school is the talent and dedication of our faculty and staff.  At its core, a school is only as good as the learning experience of students over the course of each day.  We invest significant time and resources to ensure that we, as a team, are providing all of our students with daily learning experiences that are healthy, safe, engaging, supportive, and appropriately challenging.

We aim for each and every one of our students, upon graduating from Unity, to be empowered with the skills, knowledge, experiences, and disposition to succeed in their postsecondary endeavors, lead fulfilling lives, and positively impact their communities.

Our Recent Accomplishments: Regardless of where students are academically or otherwise as they enter our school, our focus is on accelerating growth and on cultivating long-term academic and non-academic success.  This focus has reaped impressive results for our students and families in recent years. Among our accomplishments:

• 94% of our first three graduating classes earned their high school diploma in four years.
• 100% of our graduates had formal college and career plans with a college matriculation rate of 76%. This compares favorably to a 58% college matriculation rate for students in NYC.
• 95% of our graduates complete at least one Advanced Placement (AP) course in high school. This compares favorably with the 33% of NYC graduates who enroll in AP courses during their high school tenure.
• Our students who comprise subgroups that traditionally have been least effectively served by our education system, including students classified as economically disadvantaged, Black, Latino, and students with disabilities, have consistently outperformed their district and state peers in our high school graduation rates.
• In holding true to our belief in providing a truly empowering education, a vast majority of our students experience the following over their seven years at Unity:
  • After-school extra-curricular activities, including athletics and clubs;
  • Formal community service initiatives;
  • End-of-year middle school Roundtable presentation – a 45-minute oral presentation given to families, Unity faculty, and community members, and;
  • Intensive counseling in College & Career Readiness beginning in 9th grade.

Key Design Elements: Collectively, these elements reflect our beliefs on what makes for an exceptional secondary education in today’s world:

• A culturally relevant and rigorous college-ready curriculum that is rooted in the liberal arts and sciences, including high-school level Regents courses in middle school and 11 Advanced Placement courses available in high school
• A skillful team of devoted educators who inspire students to be their best selves, coupling high expectations with high support, and serving as role models for students. Unity’s educators are lifelong learners who take the utmost pride in perfecting their craft:
  • Over 50% of our teachers coach athletic teams, lead enrichment clubs, or teach summer courses
  • Our students have benefitted from a teacher retention rate of 80% over the past two years
• Expanded time for learning, including a 12-month calendar year for select students that allows for differentiation, universal growth, enrichment, and acceleration:
  • 25% of our students experience academic and extracurricular programming over a full calendar year; this subpopulation represents students who most benefit from more intensive support in order that they may meet NYS learning standards, earn a high school Regents diploma, and succeed in their postsecondary pursuits
• Highly customized support and specialized counseling throughout students’ time at Unity and beyond – this includes a staff-to-student ratio of 5:1 with a majority of courses as co-taught, along with intensive counseling from our five full-time academic counselors and four full-time social workers
• A positive and supportive discipline system & school culture built on a framework of Positive Behavioral Interventions & Supports (PBIS) in which sound character traits, healthy habits, and strong socio-emotional skills are explicitly taught and cultivated by compassionate adults:
  • 100% of students having designated advisors that they meet with weekly
  • Best practices in restorative justice are commonly utilized, including circles and mediation
• A wide range of extracurricular offerings, enrichment courses, and community service opportunities that expose students to potential passions and pursuits, including:
  • One of the largest athletic programs among public schools in Brooklyn, with 18 athletic teams that span grades 6-12
  • Performing and visual arts courses in theatre, art & design, dance, as well as world languages and speech & debate
  • Over 20 elective clubs offered to students after school and over the summer, including but not limited to student government, culinary arts, personal fitness, film-making, peer mediation, blogging, climbing, and gaming

Core Responsibilities: Key responsibilities of Unity’s teachers include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Plan a rigorous and engaging curricula that caters to the unique physical talents, needs, and multiple intelligences of students
• Collaborate in the planning and implementation of a rigorous and engaging curricula that cater to the unique physical talents, needs, and multiple intelligences of students
• Execute specially designed lesson plans that are guided by clear objectives, focus on conceptual understanding, and that are assessed routinely for student mastery
• Provide remediation and acceleration based on formative and summative assessments so that individual students are appropriately challenged according to their zones of proximal development
• Collaborate with colleagues to create, implement, and refine schoolwide and classroom-based systems, routines, and procedures
• Ensure that classroom time is utilized through sound management practices and by developing strong and trusting relationships with students
• Develop, implement, and/or manage individualized behavioral intervention plans to support students meeting established academic and non-academic goals
• Actively participate in opportunities to strengthen their own pedagogical skills as well as contribute to the learning of colleagues
• Contribute to the school’s smooth and efficient operation by fulfilling required administrative duties and responsibilities and maintaining open and proactive communication with colleagues
• Build strong relationships with students and families as an Advisor and through consistent communication and in following through on commitments

As professionals, all Unity teachers may participate in the school’s innovative teacher-career ladder, which provides a formal and transparent pathway for teachers to:

• develop their craft and improve as educators through multiple forms of support and training
• assume titles with commensurate responsibilities while remaining classroom practitioners
• be generously compensated and formally recognized for their positive contributions to the school

Core Qualifications: An ideal candidate for this position is equipped with:

• At least two years of formal teaching experience in New York
• A proven track record in accelerating student growth and mastery
• A demonstrated capacity to plan rigorous, engaging, and culturally responsive curricula that align to Common Core standards
• A balance of high expectations and high support, a growth mindset, and an innate joy in working with adolescents
• Strong interpersonal and classroom management skills with a focus on building strong relationships with students and families
• An openness and responsiveness to constructive feedback and a strong commitment to continuous improvement and professional growth
• A strong work ethic that features organization, multi-tasking, flexibility, an orientation toward solutions, and a pride in meeting deadlines
• Expertise in working with diverse populations of students and families, and in differentiating instruction to fully support the needs of diverse learners
• Strong written and oral communication skills and experience working collaboratively in team settings
• Approaches the profession with maturity, humility, versatility and, of course, a sense of humor
• A Master’s Degree and certified as a teacher in New York

To Apply: If you seek to contribute meaningfully to the development and successful operation of an innovative public school with a strong team of talented educators, please visit http://www.unityprep.org/careers to begin the application process.

As an equal opportunity employer, Unity Preparatory Charter School of Brooklyn hires without consideration to race, religion, creed, color, national origin, age, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, or disability.

Apply Here

Apply Here

Overview of Position: A strong and dedicated faculty is paramount to best serving our students and families and to establishing Unity as an exemplary school. Most critically, our faculty equip students with the knowledge and skills needed to experience secondary and postsecondary success, including the desire and capacity to learn independently, think critically, and communicate proficiently.  Our ELA Teachers have the privilege and responsibility of delivering on these outcomes as they advance students’ knowledge and skills as readers and writers.

Brief Overview of our School: Unity’s Core Purpose is to provide all students with an exceptional educational experience that empowers them to lead fulfilling lives.

 As a small, open-enrollment, community-based  charter school that proudly serves the families of central Brooklyn in grades 6-12, a Unity education is best described as personalized, inclusive, well-rounded, and keenly focused on each child’s long-term growth and development as skillful learners and whole-hearted human beings.

Given these qualities, Unity’s most important resource as a school is the talent and dedication of our faculty and staff.  At its core, a school is only as good as the learning experience of students over the course of each day.  We invest significant time and resources to ensure that we, as a team, are providing all of our students with daily learning experiences that are healthy, safe, engaging, supportive, and appropriately challenging.

We aim for each and every one of our students, upon graduating from Unity, to be empowered with the skills, knowledge, experiences, and disposition to succeed in their postsecondary endeavors, lead fulfilling lives, and positively impact their communities.

Our Recent Accomplishments: Regardless of where students are academically or otherwise as they enter our school, our focus is on accelerating growth and on cultivating long-term academic and non-academic success.  This focus has reaped impressive results for our students and families in recent years. Among our accomplishments:

• 94% of our first three graduating classes earned their high school diploma in four years.
• 100% of our graduates had formal college and career plans with a college matriculation rate of 76%. This compares favorably to a 58% college matriculation rate for students in NYC.
• 95% of our graduates complete at least one Advanced Placement (AP) course in high school. This compares favorably with the 33% of NYC graduates who enroll in AP courses during their high school tenure.
• Our students who comprise subgroups that traditionally have been least effectively served by our education system, including students classified as economically disadvantaged, Black, Latino, and students with disabilities, have consistently outperformed their district and state peers in our high school graduation rates.
• In holding true to our belief in providing a truly empowering education, a vast majority of our students experience the following over their seven years at Unity:
  • After-school extra-curricular activities, including athletics and clubs;
  • Formal community service initiatives;
  • End-of-year middle school Roundtable presentation – a 45-minute oral presentation given to families, Unity faculty, and community members, and;
  • Intensive counseling in College & Career Readiness beginning in 9th grade.

Key Design Elements: Collectively, these elements reflect our beliefs on what makes for an exceptional secondary education in today’s world:

• A culturally relevant and rigorous college-ready curriculum that is rooted in the liberal arts and sciences, including high-school level Regents courses in middle school and 11 Advanced Placement courses available in high school
• A skillful team of devoted educators who inspire students to be their best selves, coupling high expectations with high support, and serving as role models for students. Unity’s educators are lifelong learners who take the utmost pride in perfecting their craft:
  • Over 50% of our teachers coach athletic teams, lead enrichment clubs, or teach summer courses
  • Our students have benefitted from a teacher retention rate of 80% over the past two years
• Expanded time for learning, including a 12-month calendar year for select students that allows for differentiation, universal growth, enrichment, and acceleration:
  • 25% of our students experience academic and extracurricular programming over a full calendar year; this subpopulation represents students who most benefit from more intensive support in order that they may meet NYS learning standards, earn a high school Regents diploma, and succeed in their postsecondary pursuits
• Highly customized support and specialized counseling throughout students’ time at Unity and beyond – this includes a staff-to-student ratio of 5:1 with a majority of courses as co-taught, along with intensive counseling from our five full-time academic counselors and four full-time social workers
• A positive and supportive discipline system & school culture built on a framework of Positive Behavioral Interventions & Supports (PBIS) in which sound character traits, healthy habits, and strong socio-emotional skills are explicitly taught and cultivated by compassionate adults:
  • 100% of students having designated advisors that they meet with weekly
  • Best practices in restorative justice are commonly utilized, including circles and mediation
• A wide range of extracurricular offerings, enrichment courses, and community service opportunities that expose students to potential passions and pursuits, including:
  • One of the largest athletic programs among public schools in Brooklyn, with 18 athletic teams that span grades 6-12
  • Performing and visual arts courses in theatre, art & design, dance, as well as world languages and speech & debate
  • Over 20 elective clubs offered to students after school and over the summer, including but not limited to student government, culinary arts, personal fitness, film-making, peer mediation, blogging, climbing, and gaming

Core Responsibilities: Key responsibilities of Unity’s teachers include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Plan a rigorous and engaging curricula that caters to the unique physical talents, needs, and multiple intelligences of students
• Collaborate in the planning and implementation of a rigorous and engaging curricula that cater to the unique physical talents, needs, and multiple intelligences of students
• Execute specially designed lesson plans that are guided by clear objectives, focus on conceptual understanding, and that are assessed routinely for student mastery
• Provide remediation and acceleration based on formative and summative assessments so that individual students are appropriately challenged according to their zones of proximal development
• Collaborate with colleagues to create, implement, and refine schoolwide and classroom-based systems, routines, and procedures
• Ensure that classroom time is utilized through sound management practices and by developing strong and trusting relationships with students
• Develop, implement, and/or manage individualized behavioral intervention plans to support students meeting established academic and non-academic goals
• Actively participate in opportunities to strengthen their own pedagogical skills as well as contribute to the learning of colleagues
• Contribute to the school’s smooth and efficient operation by fulfilling required administrative duties and responsibilities and maintaining open and proactive communication with colleagues
• Build strong relationships with students and families as an Advisor and through consistent communication and in following through on commitments

As professionals, all Unity teachers may participate in the school’s innovative teacher-career ladder, which provides a formal and transparent pathway for teachers to:

• develop their craft and improve as educators through multiple forms of support and training
• assume titles with commensurate responsibilities while remaining classroom practitioners
• be generously compensated and formally recognized for their positive contributions to the school

Core Qualifications: An ideal candidate for this position is equipped with:

• At least two years of formal teaching experience in New York
• A proven track record in accelerating student growth and mastery
• A demonstrated capacity to plan rigorous, engaging, and culturally responsive curricula that align to Common Core standards
• A balance of high expectations and high support, a growth mindset, and an innate joy in working with adolescents
• Strong interpersonal and classroom management skills with a focus on building strong relationships with students and families
• An openness and responsiveness to constructive feedback and a strong commitment to continuous improvement and professional growth
• A strong work ethic that features organization, multi-tasking, flexibility, an orientation toward solutions, and a pride in meeting deadlines
• Expertise in working with diverse populations of students and families, and in differentiating instruction to fully support the needs of diverse learners
• Strong written and oral communication skills and experience working collaboratively in team settings
• Approaches the profession with maturity, humility, versatility and, of course, a sense of humor
• A Master’s Degree and certified as a teacher in New York

To Apply: If you seek to contribute meaningfully to the development and successful operation of an innovative public school with a strong team of talented educators, please visit http://www.unityprep.org/careers to begin the application process.

As an equal opportunity employer, Unity Preparatory Charter School of Brooklyn hires without consideration to race, religion, creed, color, national origin, age, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, or disability.

Apply Here

Apply Here

Overview of Position: A strong and dedicated faculty is paramount to best serving our students and families and to establishing Unity as an exemplary school. Most critically, our faculty equip students with the knowledge and skills needed to experience secondary and postsecondary success, including the desire and capacity to learn independently, think critically, and communicate proficiently.  Our Math Teachers have the privilege and responsibility of delivering on these outcomes as they advance students’ knowledge and skills as burgeoning mathematicians.

Brief Overview of our School: Unity’s Core Purpose is to provide all students with an exceptional educational experience that empowers them to lead fulfilling lives.

As a small, open-enrollment, community-based  charter school that proudly serves the families of central Brooklyn in grades 6-12, a Unity education is best described as personalized, inclusive, well-rounded, and keenly focused on each child’s long-term growth and development as skillful learners and whole-hearted human beings.

Given these qualities, Unity’s most important resource as a school is the talent and dedication of our faculty and staff.  At its core, a school is only as good as the learning experience of students over the course of each day.  We invest significant time and resources to ensure that we, as a team, are providing all of our students with daily learning experiences that are healthy, safe, engaging, supportive, and appropriately challenging.

We aim for each and every one of our students, upon graduating from Unity, to be empowered with the skills, knowledge, experiences, and disposition to succeed in their postsecondary endeavors, lead fulfilling lives, and positively impact their communities.

Our Recent Accomplishments: Regardless of where students are academically or otherwise as they enter our school, our focus is on accelerating growth and on cultivating long-term academic and non-academic success.  This focus has reaped impressive results for our students and families in recent years. Among our accomplishments:

• 94% of our first three graduating classes earned their high school diploma in four years.
• 100% of our graduates had formal college and career plans with a college matriculation rate of 76%. This compares favorably to a 58% college matriculation rate for students in NYC.
• 95% of our graduates complete at least one Advanced Placement (AP) course in high school. This compares favorably with the 33% of NYC graduates who enroll in AP courses during their high school tenure.
• Our students who comprise subgroups that traditionally have been least effectively served by our education system, including students classified as economically disadvantaged, Black, Latino, and students with disabilities, have consistently outperformed their district and state peers in our high school graduation rates.
• In holding true to our belief in providing a truly empowering education, a vast majority of our students experience the following over their seven years at Unity:
  • After-school extra-curricular activities, including athletics and clubs;
  • Formal community service initiatives;
  • End-of-year middle school Roundtable presentation – a 45-minute oral presentation given to families, Unity faculty, and community members, and;
  • Intensive counseling in College & Career Readiness beginning in 9th grade.

Key Design Elements: Collectively, these elements reflect our beliefs on what makes for an exceptional secondary education in today’s world:

• A culturally relevant and rigorous college-ready curriculum that is rooted in the liberal arts and sciences, including high-school level Regents courses in middle school and 11 Advanced Placement courses available in high school
• A skillful team of devoted educators who inspire students to be their best selves, coupling high expectations with high support, and serving as role models for students. Unity’s educators are lifelong learners who take the utmost pride in perfecting their craft:
  • Over 50% of our teachers coach athletic teams, lead enrichment clubs, or teach summer courses
  • Our students have benefitted from a teacher retention rate of 80% over the past two years
• Expanded time for learning, including a 12-month calendar year for select students that allows for differentiation, universal growth, enrichment, and acceleration:
  • 25% of our students experience academic and extracurricular programming over a full calendar year; this subpopulation represents students who most benefit from more intensive support in order that they may meet NYS learning standards, earn a high school Regents diploma, and succeed in their postsecondary pursuits
• Highly customized support and specialized counseling throughout students’ time at Unity and beyond – this includes a staff-to-student ratio of 5:1 with a majority of courses as co-taught, along with intensive counseling from our five full-time academic counselors and four full-time social workers
• A positive and supportive discipline system & school culture built on a framework of Positive Behavioral Interventions & Supports (PBIS) in which sound character traits, healthy habits, and strong socio-emotional skills are explicitly taught and cultivated by compassionate adults:
  • 100% of students having designated advisors that they meet with weekly
  • Best practices in restorative justice are commonly utilized, including circles and mediation
• A wide range of extracurricular offerings, enrichment courses, and community service opportunities that expose students to potential passions and pursuits, including:
  • One of the largest athletic programs among public schools in Brooklyn, with 18 athletic teams that span grades 6-12
  • Performing and visual arts courses in theatre, art & design, dance, as well as world languages and speech & debate
  • Over 20 elective clubs offered to students after school and over the summer, including but not limited to student government, culinary arts, personal fitness, film-making, peer mediation, blogging, climbing, and gaming

Core Responsibilities: Key responsibilities of Unity’s teachers include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Plan a rigorous and engaging curricula that caters to the unique physical talents, needs, and multiple intelligences of students
• Collaborate in the planning and implementation of a rigorous and engaging curricula that cater to the unique physical talents, needs, and multiple intelligences of students
• Execute specially designed lesson plans that are guided by clear objectives, focus on conceptual understanding, and that are assessed routinely for student mastery
• Provide remediation and acceleration based on formative and summative assessments so that individual students are appropriately challenged according to their zones of proximal development
• Collaborate with colleagues to create, implement, and refine schoolwide and classroom-based systems, routines, and procedures
• Ensure that classroom time is utilized through sound management practices and by developing strong and trusting relationships with students
• Develop, implement, and/or manage individualized behavioral intervention plans to support students meeting established academic and non-academic goals
• Actively participate in opportunities to strengthen their own pedagogical skills as well as contribute to the learning of colleagues
• Contribute to the school’s smooth and efficient operation by fulfilling required administrative duties and responsibilities and maintaining open and proactive communication with colleagues
• Build strong relationships with students and families as an Advisor and through consistent communication and in following through on commitments

As professionals, all Unity teachers may participate in the school’s innovative teacher-career ladder, which provides a formal and transparent pathway for teachers to:

• develop their craft and improve as educators through multiple forms of support and training
• assume titles with commensurate responsibilities while remaining classroom practitioners
• be generously compensated and formally recognized for their positive contributions to the school

Core Qualifications: An ideal candidate for this position is equipped with:

• At least two years of formal teaching experience in New York
• A proven track record in accelerating student growth and mastery
• A demonstrated capacity to plan rigorous, engaging, and culturally responsive curricula that align to Common Core standards
• A balance of high expectations and high support, a growth mindset, and an innate joy in working with adolescents
• Strong interpersonal and classroom management skills with a focus on building strong relationships with students and families
• An openness and responsiveness to constructive feedback and a strong commitment to continuous improvement and professional growth
• A strong work ethic that features organization, multi-tasking, flexibility, an orientation toward solutions, and a pride in meeting deadlines
• Expertise in working with diverse populations of students and families, and in differentiating instruction to fully support the needs of diverse learners
• Strong written and oral communication skills and experience working collaboratively in team settings
• Approaches the profession with maturity, humility, versatility and, of course, a sense of humor
• A Master’s Degree and certified as a teacher in New York

To Apply: If you seek to contribute meaningfully to the development and successful operation of an innovative public school with a strong team of talented educators, please visit http://www.unityprep.org/careers to begin the application process.

As an equal opportunity employer, Unity Preparatory Charter School of Brooklyn hires without consideration to race, religion, creed, color, national origin, age, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, or disability.

Apply Here

Apply Here

Overview of Position: A strong and dedicated faculty is paramount to best serving our students and families and to establishing Unity as an exemplary school. Most critically, our faculty equip students with the knowledge and skills needed to experience secondary and postsecondary success, including the desire and capacity to learn independently, think critically, and communicate proficiently.  Our Math Teachers have the privilege and responsibility of delivering on these outcomes as they advance students’ knowledge and skills as burgeoning scientists. 

Brief Overview of our School: Unity’s Core Purpose is to provide all students with an exceptional educational experience that empowers them to lead fulfilling lives.

As a small, open-enrollment, community-based  charter school that proudly serves the families of central Brooklyn in grades 6-12, a Unity education is best described as personalized, inclusive, well-rounded, and keenly focused on each child’s long-term growth and development as skillful learners and whole-hearted human beings.

Given these qualities, Unity’s most important resource as a school is the talent and dedication of our faculty and staff.  At its core, a school is only as good as the learning experience of students over the course of each day.  We invest significant time and resources to ensure that we, as a team, are providing all of our students with daily learning experiences that are healthy, safe, engaging, supportive, and appropriately challenging.  

We aim for each and every one of our students, upon graduating from Unity, to be empowered with the skills, knowledge, experiences, and disposition to succeed in their postsecondary endeavors, lead fulfilling lives, and positively impact their communities.

Our Recent Accomplishments: Regardless of where students are academically or otherwise as they enter our school, our focus is on accelerating growth and on cultivating long-term academic and non-academic success.  This focus has reaped impressive results for our students and families in recent years. Among our accomplishments:

• 94% of our first three graduating classes earned their high school diploma in four years.
• 100% of our graduates had formal college and career plans with a college matriculation rate of 76%. This compares favorably to a 58% college matriculation rate for students in NYC.
• 95% of our graduates complete at least one Advanced Placement (AP) course in high school. This compares favorably with the 33% of NYC graduates who enroll in AP courses during their high school tenure.
• Our students who comprise subgroups that traditionally have been least effectively served by our education system, including students classified as economically disadvantaged, Black, Latino, and students with disabilities, have consistently outperformed their district and state peers in our high school graduation rates.
• In holding true to our belief in providing a truly empowering education, a vast majority of our students experience the following over their seven years at Unity:
  • After-school extra-curricular activities, including athletics and clubs;
  • Formal community service initiatives;
  • End-of-year middle school Roundtable presentation – a 45-minute oral presentation given to families, Unity faculty, and community members, and;
  • Intensive counseling in College & Career Readiness beginning in 9th grade.

Key Design Elements: Collectively, these elements reflect our beliefs on what makes for an exceptional secondary education in today’s world:

• A culturally relevant and rigorous college-ready curriculum that is rooted in the liberal arts and sciences, including high-school level Regents courses in middle school and 11 Advanced Placement courses available in high school
• A skillful team of devoted educators who inspire students to be their best selves, coupling high expectations with high support, and serving as role models for students. Unity’s educators are lifelong learners who take the utmost pride in perfecting their craft:
  • Over 50% of our teachers coach athletic teams, lead enrichment clubs, or teach summer courses
  • Our students have benefitted from a teacher retention rate of 80% over the past two years
• Expanded time for learning, including a 12-month calendar year for select students that allows for differentiation, universal growth, enrichment, and acceleration:
  • 25% of our students experience academic and extracurricular programming over a full calendar year; this subpopulation represents students who most benefit from more intensive support in order that they may meet NYS learning standards, earn a high school Regents diploma, and succeed in their postsecondary pursuits
• Highly customized support and specialized counseling throughout students’ time at Unity and beyond – this includes a staff-to-student ratio of 5:1 with a majority of courses as co-taught, along with intensive counseling from our five full-time academic counselors and four full-time social workers
• A positive and supportive discipline system & school culture built on a framework of Positive Behavioral Interventions & Supports (PBIS) in which sound character traits, healthy habits, and strong socio-emotional skills are explicitly taught and cultivated by compassionate adults:
  • 100% of students having designated advisors that they meet with weekly
  • Best practices in restorative justice are commonly utilized, including circles and mediation
• A wide range of extracurricular offerings, enrichment courses, and community service opportunities that expose students to potential passions and pursuits, including:
  • One of the largest athletic programs among public schools in Brooklyn, with 18 athletic teams that span grades 6-12
  • Performing and visual arts courses in theatre, art & design, dance, as well as world languages and speech & debate
  • Over 20 elective clubs offered to students after school and over the summer, including but not limited to student government, culinary arts, personal fitness, film-making, peer mediation, blogging, climbing, and gaming

Core Responsibilities: Key responsibilities of Unity’s teachers include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Plan a rigorous and engaging curricula that caters to the unique physical talents, needs, and multiple intelligences of students
• Collaborate in the planning and implementation of a rigorous and engaging curricula that cater to the unique physical talents, needs, and multiple intelligences of students
• Execute specially designed lesson plans that are guided by clear objectives, focus on conceptual understanding, and that are assessed routinely for student mastery
• Provide remediation and acceleration based on formative and summative assessments so that individual students are appropriately challenged according to their zones of proximal development
• Collaborate with colleagues to create, implement, and refine schoolwide and classroom-based systems, routines, and procedures
• Ensure that classroom time is utilized through sound management practices and by developing strong and trusting relationships with students
• Develop, implement, and/or manage individualized behavioral intervention plans to support students meeting established academic and non-academic goals
• Actively participate in opportunities to strengthen their own pedagogical skills as well as contribute to the learning of colleagues
• Contribute to the school’s smooth and efficient operation by fulfilling required administrative duties and responsibilities and maintaining open and proactive communication with colleagues
• Build strong relationships with students and families as an Advisor and through consistent communication and in following through on commitments

As professionals, all Unity teachers may participate in the school’s innovative teacher-career ladder, which provides a formal and transparent pathway for teachers to:

• develop their craft and improve as educators through multiple forms of support and training
• assume titles with commensurate responsibilities while remaining classroom practitioners
• be generously compensated and formally recognized for their positive contributions to the school

Core Qualifications: An ideal candidate for this position is equipped with:

• At least two years of formal teaching experience in New York
• A proven track record in accelerating student growth and mastery
• A demonstrated capacity to plan rigorous, engaging, and culturally responsive curricula that align to Common Core standards
• A balance of high expectations and high support, a growth mindset, and an innate joy in working with adolescents
• Strong interpersonal and classroom management skills with a focus on building strong relationships with students and families
• An openness and responsiveness to constructive feedback and a strong commitment to continuous improvement and professional growth
• A strong work ethic that features organization, multi-tasking, flexibility, an orientation toward solutions, and a pride in meeting deadlines
• Expertise in working with diverse populations of students and families, and in differentiating instruction to fully support the needs of diverse learners
• Strong written and oral communication skills and experience working collaboratively in team settings
• Approaches the profession with maturity, humility, versatility and, of course, a sense of humor
• A Master’s Degree and certified as a teacher in New York

To Apply: If you seek to contribute meaningfully to the development and successful operation of an innovative public school with a strong team of talented educators, please visit http://www.unityprep.org/careers to begin the application process.

As an equal opportunity employer, Unity Preparatory Charter School of Brooklyn hires without consideration to race, religion, creed, color, national origin, age, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, or disability.

Apply Here

Apply Here

Overview of Position: A strong and dedicated faculty is paramount to best serving our students and families and to establishing Unity as an exemplary school. Most critically, our faculty equip students with the knowledge and skills needed to experience secondary and postsecondary success, including the desire and capacity to learn independently, think critically, and communicate proficiently.  Our Math Teachers have the privilege and responsibility of delivering on these outcomes as they advance students’ knowledge and skills as burgeoning historians.

Brief Overview of our School: Unity’s Core Purpose is to provide all students with an exceptional educational experience that empowers them to lead fulfilling lives.

As a small, open-enrollment, community-based  charter school that proudly serves the families of central Brooklyn in grades 6-12, a Unity education is best described as personalized, inclusive, well-rounded, and keenly focused on each child’s long-term growth and development as skillful learners and whole-hearted human beings.

Given these qualities, Unity’s most important resource as a school is the talent and dedication of our faculty and staff.  At its core, a school is only as good as the learning experience of students over the course of each day.  We invest significant time and resources to ensure that we, as a team, are providing all of our students with daily learning experiences that are healthy, safe, engaging, supportive, and appropriately challenging.

We aim for each and every one of our students, upon graduating from Unity, to be empowered with the skills, knowledge, experiences, and disposition to succeed in their postsecondary endeavors, lead fulfilling lives, and positively impact their communities. 

Our Recent Accomplishments: Regardless of where students are academically or otherwise as they enter our school, our focus is on accelerating growth and on cultivating long-term academic and non-academic success.  This focus has reaped impressive results for our students and families in recent years. Among our accomplishments:

• 94% of our first three graduating classes earned their high school diploma in four years.
• 100% of our graduates had formal college and career plans with a college matriculation rate of 76%. This compares favorably to a 58% college matriculation rate for students in NYC.
• 95% of our graduates complete at least one Advanced Placement (AP) course in high school. This compares favorably with the 33% of NYC graduates who enroll in AP courses during their high school tenure.
• Our students who comprise subgroups that traditionally have been least effectively served by our education system, including students classified as economically disadvantaged, Black, Latino, and students with disabilities, have consistently outperformed their district and state peers in our high school graduation rates.
• In holding true to our belief in providing a truly empowering education, a vast majority of our students experience the following over their seven years at Unity:
  • After-school extra-curricular activities, including athletics and clubs;
  • Formal community service initiatives;
  • End-of-year middle school Roundtable presentation – a 45-minute oral presentation given to families, Unity faculty, and community members, and;
  • Intensive counseling in College & Career Readiness beginning in 9th grade.

Key Design Elements: Collectively, these elements reflect our beliefs on what makes for an exceptional secondary education in today’s world:

• A culturally relevant and rigorous college-ready curriculum that is rooted in the liberal arts and sciences, including high-school level Regents courses in middle school and 11 Advanced Placement courses available in high school
• A skillful team of devoted educators who inspire students to be their best selves, coupling high expectations with high support, and serving as role models for students. Unity’s educators are lifelong learners who take the utmost pride in perfecting their craft:
  • Over 50% of our teachers coach athletic teams, lead enrichment clubs, or teach summer courses
  • Our students have benefitted from a teacher retention rate of 80% over the past two years
• Expanded time for learning, including a 12-month calendar year for select students that allows for differentiation, universal growth, enrichment, and acceleration:
  • 25% of our students experience academic and extracurricular programming over a full calendar year; this subpopulation represents students who most benefit from more intensive support in order that they may meet NYS learning standards, earn a high school Regents diploma, and succeed in their postsecondary pursuits
• Highly customized support and specialized counseling throughout students’ time at Unity and beyond – this includes a staff-to-student ratio of 5:1 with a majority of courses as co-taught, along with intensive counseling from our five full-time academic counselors and four full-time social workers
• A positive and supportive discipline system & school culture built on a framework of Positive Behavioral Interventions & Supports (PBIS) in which sound character traits, healthy habits, and strong socio-emotional skills are explicitly taught and cultivated by compassionate adults:
  • 100% of students having designated advisors that they meet with weekly
  • Best practices in restorative justice are commonly utilized, including circles and mediation
• A wide range of extracurricular offerings, enrichment courses, and community service opportunities that expose students to potential passions and pursuits, including:
  • One of the largest athletic programs among public schools in Brooklyn, with 18 athletic teams that span grades 6-12
  • Performing and visual arts courses in theatre, art & design, dance, as well as world languages and speech & debate
  • Over 20 elective clubs offered to students after school and over the summer, including but not limited to student government, culinary arts, personal fitness, film-making, peer mediation, blogging, climbing, and gaming

Core Responsibilities: Key responsibilities of Unity’s teachers include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Plan a rigorous and engaging curricula that caters to the unique physical talents, needs, and multiple intelligences of students
• Collaborate in the planning and implementation of a rigorous and engaging curricula that cater to the unique physical talents, needs, and multiple intelligences of students
• Execute specially designed lesson plans that are guided by clear objectives, focus on conceptual understanding, and that are assessed routinely for student mastery
• Provide remediation and acceleration based on formative and summative assessments so that individual students are appropriately challenged according to their zones of proximal development
• Collaborate with colleagues to create, implement, and refine schoolwide and classroom-based systems, routines, and procedures
• Ensure that classroom time is utilized through sound management practices and by developing strong and trusting relationships with students
• Develop, implement, and/or manage individualized behavioral intervention plans to support students meeting established academic and non-academic goals
• Actively participate in opportunities to strengthen their own pedagogical skills as well as contribute to the learning of colleagues
• Contribute to the school’s smooth and efficient operation by fulfilling required administrative duties and responsibilities and maintaining open and proactive communication with colleagues
• Build strong relationships with students and families as an Advisor and through consistent communication and in following through on commitments

As professionals, all Unity teachers may participate in the school’s innovative teacher-career ladder, which provides a formal and transparent pathway for teachers to:

• develop their craft and improve as educators through multiple forms of support and training
• assume titles with commensurate responsibilities while remaining classroom practitioners
• be generously compensated and formally recognized for their positive contributions to the school

Core Qualifications: An ideal candidate for this position is equipped with:

• At least two years of formal teaching experience in New York
• A proven track record in accelerating student growth and mastery
• A demonstrated capacity to plan rigorous, engaging, and culturally responsive curricula that align to Common Core standards
• A balance of high expectations and high support, a growth mindset, and an innate joy in working with adolescents
• Strong interpersonal and classroom management skills with a focus on building strong relationships with students and families
• An openness and responsiveness to constructive feedback and a strong commitment to continuous improvement and professional growth
• A strong work ethic that features organization, multi-tasking, flexibility, an orientation toward solutions, and a pride in meeting deadlines
• Expertise in working with diverse populations of students and families, and in differentiating instruction to fully support the needs of diverse learners
• Strong written and oral communication skills and experience working collaboratively in team settings
• Approaches the profession with maturity, humility, versatility and, of course, a sense of humor
• A Master’s Degree and certified as a teacher in New York

To Apply: If you seek to contribute meaningfully to the development and successful operation of an innovative public school with a strong team of talented educators, please visit http://www.unityprep.org/careers to begin the application process.

As an equal opportunity employer, Unity Preparatory Charter School of Brooklyn hires without consideration to race, religion, creed, color, national origin, age, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, or disability.

Apply Here

Apply Here

Overview of Position: A strong and dedicated faculty is paramount to best serving our students and families and to establishing Unity as an exemplary school. Most critically, our faculty equip students with the knowledge and skills needed to experience secondary and postsecondary success, including the desire and capacity to learn independently, think critically, and communicate proficiently.  Our Math Teachers have the privilege and responsibility of delivering on these outcomes as they advance students’ knowledge and skills as burgeoning computer scientists.

Brief Overview of our School: Unity’s Core Purpose is to provide all students with an exceptional educational experience that empowers them to lead fulfilling lives.

As a small, open-enrollment, community-based  charter school that proudly serves the families of central Brooklyn in grades 6-12, a Unity education is best described as personalized, inclusive, well-rounded, and keenly focused on each child’s long-term growth and development as skillful learners and whole-hearted human beings.

Given these qualities, Unity’s most important resource as a school is the talent and dedication of our faculty and staff.  At its core, a school is only as good as the learning experience of students over the course of each day.  We invest significant time and resources to ensure that we, as a team, are providing all of our students with daily learning experiences that are healthy, safe, engaging, supportive, and appropriately challenging.

We aim for each and every one of our students, upon graduating from Unity, to be empowered with the skills, knowledge, experiences, and disposition to succeed in their postsecondary endeavors, lead fulfilling lives, and positively impact their communities.

Our Recent Accomplishments: Regardless of where students are academically or otherwise as they enter our school, our focus is on accelerating growth and on cultivating long-term academic and non-academic success.  This focus has reaped impressive results for our students and families in recent years. Among our accomplishments:

• 94% of our first three graduating classes earned their high school diploma in four years.
• 100% of our graduates had formal college and career plans with a college matriculation rate of 76%. This compares favorably to a 58% college matriculation rate for students in NYC.
• 95% of our graduates complete at least one Advanced Placement (AP) course in high school. This compares favorably with the 33% of NYC graduates who enroll in AP courses during their high school tenure.
• Our students who comprise subgroups that traditionally have been least effectively served by our education system, including students classified as economically disadvantaged, Black, Latino, and students with disabilities, have consistently outperformed their district and state peers in our high school graduation rates.
• In holding true to our belief in providing a truly empowering education, a vast majority of our students experience the following over their seven years at Unity:
  • After-school extra-curricular activities, including athletics and clubs;
  • Formal community service initiatives;
  • End-of-year middle school Roundtable presentation – a 45-minute oral presentation given to families, Unity faculty, and community members, and;
  • Intensive counseling in College & Career Readiness beginning in 9th grade.

Key Design Elements: Collectively, these elements reflect our beliefs on what makes for an exceptional secondary education in today’s world:

• A culturally relevant and rigorous college-ready curriculum that is rooted in the liberal arts and sciences, including high-school level Regents courses in middle school and 11 Advanced Placement courses available in high school
• A skillful team of devoted educators who inspire students to be their best selves, coupling high expectations with high support, and serving as role models for students. Unity’s educators are lifelong learners who take the utmost pride in perfecting their craft:
  • Over 50% of our teachers coach athletic teams, lead enrichment clubs, or teach summer courses
  • Our students have benefitted from a teacher retention rate of 80% over the past two years
• Expanded time for learning, including a 12-month calendar year for select students that allows for differentiation, universal growth, enrichment, and acceleration:
  • 25% of our students experience academic and extracurricular programming over a full calendar year; this subpopulation represents students who most benefit from more intensive support in order that they may meet NYS learning standards, earn a high school Regents diploma, and succeed in their postsecondary pursuits
• Highly customized support and specialized counseling throughout students’ time at Unity and beyond – this includes a staff-to-student ratio of 5:1 with a majority of courses as co-taught, along with intensive counseling from our five full-time academic counselors and four full-time social workers
• A positive and supportive discipline system & school culture built on a framework of Positive Behavioral Interventions & Supports (PBIS) in which sound character traits, healthy habits, and strong socio-emotional skills are explicitly taught and cultivated by compassionate adults:
  • 100% of students having designated advisors that they meet with weekly
  • Best practices in restorative justice are commonly utilized, including circles and mediation
• A wide range of extracurricular offerings, enrichment courses, and community service opportunities that expose students to potential passions and pursuits, including:
  • One of the largest athletic programs among public schools in Brooklyn, with 18 athletic teams that span grades 6-12
  • Performing and visual arts courses in theatre, art & design, dance, as well as world languages and speech & debate
  • Over 20 elective clubs offered to students after school and over the summer, including but not limited to student government, culinary arts, personal fitness, film-making, peer mediation, blogging, climbing, and gaming

Core Responsibilities: Key responsibilities of Unity’s teachers include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Plan a rigorous and engaging curricula that caters to the unique physical talents, needs, and multiple intelligences of students
• Collaborate in the planning and implementation of a rigorous and engaging curricula that cater to the unique physical talents, needs, and multiple intelligences of students
• Execute specially designed lesson plans that are guided by clear objectives, focus on conceptual understanding, and that are assessed routinely for student mastery
• Provide remediation and acceleration based on formative and summative assessments so that individual students are appropriately challenged according to their zones of proximal development
• Collaborate with colleagues to create, implement, and refine schoolwide and classroom-based systems, routines, and procedures
• Ensure that classroom time is utilized through sound management practices and by developing strong and trusting relationships with students
• Develop, implement, and/or manage individualized behavioral intervention plans to support students meeting established academic and non-academic goals
• Actively participate in opportunities to strengthen their own pedagogical skills as well as contribute to the learning of colleagues
• Contribute to the school’s smooth and efficient operation by fulfilling required administrative duties and responsibilities and maintaining open and proactive communication with colleagues
• Build strong relationships with students and families as an Advisor and through consistent communication and in following through on commitments

As professionals, all Unity teachers may participate in the school’s innovative teacher-career ladder, which provides a formal and transparent pathway for teachers to:

• develop their craft and improve as educators through multiple forms of support and training
• assume titles with commensurate responsibilities while remaining classroom practitioners
• be generously compensated and formally recognized for their positive contributions to the school

Core Qualifications: An ideal candidate for this position is equipped with:

• At least two years of formal teaching experience in New York
• A proven track record in accelerating student growth and mastery
• A demonstrated capacity to plan rigorous, engaging, and culturally responsive curricula that align to Common Core standards
• A balance of high expectations and high support, a growth mindset, and an innate joy in working with adolescents
• Strong interpersonal and classroom management skills with a focus on building strong relationships with students and families
• An openness and responsiveness to constructive feedback and a strong commitment to continuous improvement and professional growth
• A strong work ethic that features organization, multi-tasking, flexibility, an orientation toward solutions, and a pride in meeting deadlines
• Expertise in working with diverse populations of students and families, and in differentiating instruction to fully support the needs of diverse learners
• Strong written and oral communication skills and experience working collaboratively in team settings
• Approaches the profession with maturity, humility, versatility and, of course, a sense of humor
• A Master’s Degree and certified as a teacher in New York

To Apply: If you seek to contribute meaningfully to the development and successful operation of an innovative public school with a strong team of talented educators, please visit http://www.unityprep.org/careers to begin the application process.

As an equal opportunity employer, Unity Preparatory Charter School of Brooklyn hires without consideration to race, religion, creed, color, national origin, age, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, or disability.

Apply Here

Apply Here

Overview of Position: A strong and dedicated faculty is paramount to best serving our students and families and to establishing Unity as an exemplary school. Most critically, our faculty equip students with the knowledge and skills needed to experience secondary and postsecondary success, including the desire and capacity to learn independently, think critically, and communicate proficiently.  Our Humanities Learning Specialists (Special Education teachers) are essential to our success as a faculty and school. They use their expertise in Universal Design for Learning (UDL) principles and effective methods for differentiation to make sure the curriculum and instruction reflect the unique talents, needs, and multiple intelligences of our students with disabilities. In addition, Unity’s Learning Specialists develop strong partnerships with students and families to ensure that students are empowered and engaged members of our school, our community, and the world at large.

Brief Overview of our School: Unity’s Core Purpose is to provide all students with an exceptional educational experience that empowers them to lead fulfilling lives.

As a small, open-enrollment, community-based  charter school that proudly serves the families of central Brooklyn in grades 6-12, a Unity education is best described as personalized, inclusive, well-rounded, and keenly focused on each child’s long-term growth and development as skillful learners and whole-hearted human beings.

Given these qualities, Unity’s most important resource as a school is the talent and dedication of our faculty and staff.  At its core, a school is only as good as the learning experience of students over the course of each day.  We invest significant time and resources to ensure that we, as a team, are providing all of our students with daily learning experiences that are healthy, safe, engaging, supportive, and appropriately challenging.

We aim for each and every one of our students, upon graduating from Unity, to be empowered with the skills, knowledge, experiences, and disposition to succeed in their postsecondary endeavors, lead fulfilling lives, and positively impact their communities.

Our Recent Accomplishments: Regardless of where students are academically or otherwise as they enter our school, our focus is on accelerating growth and on cultivating long-term academic and non-academic success.  This focus has reaped impressive results for our students and families in recent years. Among our accomplishments:

• 94% of our first three graduating classes earned their high school diploma in four years.
• 100% of our graduates had formal college and career plans with a college matriculation rate of 76%. This compares favorably to a 58% college matriculation rate for students in NYC.
• 95% of our graduates complete at least one Advanced Placement (AP) course in high school. This compares favorably with the 33% of NYC graduates who enroll in AP courses during their high school tenure.
• Our students who comprise subgroups that traditionally have been least effectively served by our education system, including students classified as economically disadvantaged, Black, Latino, and students with disabilities, have consistently outperformed their district and state peers in our high school graduation rates.
• In holding true to our belief in providing a truly empowering education, a vast majority of our students experience the following over their seven years at Unity:
  • After-school extra-curricular activities, including athletics and clubs;
  • Formal community service initiatives;
  • End-of-year middle school Roundtable presentation – a 45-minute oral presentation given to families, Unity faculty, and community members, and;
  • Intensive counseling in College & Career Readiness beginning in 9th grade.

Key Design Elements: Collectively, these elements reflect our beliefs on what makes for an exceptional secondary education in today’s world:

• A culturally relevant and rigorous college-ready curriculum that is rooted in the liberal arts and sciences, including high-school level Regents courses in middle school and 11 Advanced Placement courses available in high school
• A skillful team of devoted educators who inspire students to be their best selves, coupling high expectations with high support, and serving as role models for students. Unity’s educators are lifelong learners who take the utmost pride in perfecting their craft:
  • Over 50% of our teachers coach athletic teams, lead enrichment clubs, or teach summer courses
  • Our students have benefitted from a teacher retention rate of 80% over the past two years
• Expanded time for learning, including a 12-month calendar year for select students that allows for differentiation, universal growth, enrichment, and acceleration:
  • 25% of our students experience academic and extracurricular programming over a full calendar year; this subpopulation represents students who most benefit from more intensive support in order that they may meet NYS learning standards, earn a high school Regents diploma, and succeed in their postsecondary pursuits
• Highly customized support and specialized counseling throughout students’ time at Unity and beyond – this includes a staff-to-student ratio of 5:1 with a majority of courses as co-taught, along with intensive counseling from our five full-time academic counselors and four full-time social workers
• A positive and supportive discipline system & school culture built on a framework of Positive Behavioral Interventions & Supports (PBIS) in which sound character traits, healthy habits, and strong socio-emotional skills are explicitly taught and cultivated by compassionate adults:
  • 100% of students having designated advisors that they meet with weekly
  • Best practices in restorative justice are commonly utilized, including circles and mediation
• A wide range of extracurricular offerings, enrichment courses, and community service opportunities that expose students to potential passions and pursuits, including:
  • One of the largest athletic programs among public schools in Brooklyn, with 18 athletic teams that span grades 6-12
  • Performing and visual arts courses in theatre, art & design, dance, as well as world languages and speech & debate
  • Over 20 elective clubs offered to students after school and over the summer, including but not limited to student government, culinary arts, personal fitness, film-making, peer mediation, blogging, climbing, and gaming

Core Responsibilities: Key responsibilities of Unity’s learning specialists include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Collaboratively plan a rigorous, differentiated, engaging, and culturally responsive curriculum that caters to the unique talents, needs, and multiple intelligences of students with disabilities
• Implement Specially Designed Instruction (SDI) in integrated co-teaching (ICT) and/or special education teacher support services (SETSS) settings with a focus on teaching to mastery and/or conceptual understanding
• Utilize data from formative assessments in the classroom and school-wide interim assessments to adjust instruction on a regular basis
• Provide additional remediation and acceleration based on formative assessments so that individual students are appropriately challenged according to their zones of proximal development
• Ensure that classroom time is well-utilized through sound classroom management practices and by developing strong and trusting relationships with students
• Develop, implement, and/or manage individualized behavioral intervention plans to support students meeting established academic and non-academic goals
• Actively participate in opportunities to strengthen their own pedagogical skills as well as contribute to the learning of colleagues
• Serve as the advisor to a group of students to support their academic and non-academic growth and development
• Contribute to the school’s smooth and efficient operation by fulfilling required administrative duties and responsibilities and maintaining open and proactive communication with colleagues
• Build strong relationships with families through consistent communication and in following through on commitments

As professionals, all Unity teachers may participate in the school’s innovative teacher-career ladder, which provides a formal and transparent pathway for teachers to:

• develop their craft and improve as educators through multiple forms of support and training
• assume titles with commensurate responsibilities while remaining classroom practitioners
• be generously compensated and formally recognized for their positive contributions to the school

Core Qualifications: An ideal candidate for this position is equipped with:

• At least two years of formal teaching experience in New York
• A proven track record in accelerating student growth and mastery
• A demonstrated capacity to plan rigorous, engaging, and culturally responsive curricula that align to Common Core standards
• A balance of high expectations and high support, a growth mindset, and an innate joy in working with adolescents
• Strong interpersonal and classroom management skills with a focus on building strong relationships with students and families
• An openness and responsiveness to constructive feedback and a strong commitment to continuous improvement and professional growth
• A strong work ethic that features organization, multi-tasking, flexibility, an orientation toward solutions, and a pride in meeting deadlines
• Expertise in working with diverse populations of students and families, and in differentiating instruction to fully support the needs of diverse learners
• Strong written and oral communication skills and experience working collaboratively in team settings
• Approaches the profession with maturity, humility, versatility and, of course, a sense of humor
• A Master’s Degree and certified as a teacher in New York

To Apply: If you seek to contribute meaningfully to the development and successful operation of an innovative public school with a strong team of talented educators, please visit http://www.unityprep.org/careers to begin the application process.

As an equal opportunity employer, Unity Preparatory Charter School of Brooklyn hires without consideration to race, religion, creed, color, national origin, age, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, or disability.

Apply Here

Apply Here

Overview of Position: A strong and dedicated faculty is paramount to best serving our students and families and to establishing Unity as an exemplary school. Most critically, our faculty equip students with the knowledge and skills needed to experience secondary and postsecondary success, including the desire and capacity to learn independently, think critically, and communicate proficiently.  Our Humanities Learning Specialists (Special Education teachers) are essential to our success as a faculty and school. They use their expertise in Universal Design for Learning (UDL) principles and effective methods for differentiation to make sure the curriculum and instruction reflect the unique talents, needs, and multiple intelligences of our students with disabilities. In addition, Unity’s Learning Specialists develop strong partnerships with students and families to ensure that students are empowered and engaged members of our school, our community, and the world at large.

Brief Overview of our School: Unity’s Core Purpose is to provide all students with an exceptional educational experience that empowers them to lead fulfilling lives.

As a small, open-enrollment, community-based  charter school that proudly serves the families of central Brooklyn in grades 6-12, a Unity education is best described as personalized, inclusive, well-rounded, and keenly focused on each child’s long-term growth and development as skillful learners and whole-hearted human beings.

Given these qualities, Unity’s most important resource as a school is the talent and dedication of our faculty and staff.  At its core, a school is only as good as the learning experience of students over the course of each day.  We invest significant time and resources to ensure that we, as a team, are providing all of our students with daily learning experiences that are healthy, safe, engaging, supportive, and appropriately challenging.

We aim for each and every one of our students, upon graduating from Unity, to be empowered with the skills, knowledge, experiences, and disposition to succeed in their postsecondary endeavors, lead fulfilling lives, and positively impact their communities.

Our Recent Accomplishments: Regardless of where students are academically or otherwise as they enter our school, our focus is on accelerating growth and on cultivating long-term academic and non-academic success.  This focus has reaped impressive results for our students and families in recent years. Among our accomplishments:

• 94% of our first three graduating classes earned their high school diploma in four years.
• 100% of our graduates had formal college and career plans with a college matriculation rate of 76%. This compares favorably to a 58% college matriculation rate for students in NYC.
• 95% of our graduates complete at least one Advanced Placement (AP) course in high school. This compares favorably with the 33% of NYC graduates who enroll in AP courses during their high school tenure.
• Our students who comprise subgroups that traditionally have been least effectively served by our education system, including students classified as economically disadvantaged, Black, Latino, and students with disabilities, have consistently outperformed their district and state peers in our high school graduation rates.
• In holding true to our belief in providing a truly empowering education, a vast majority of our students experience the following over their seven years at Unity:
  • After-school extra-curricular activities, including athletics and clubs;
  • Formal community service initiatives;
  • End-of-year middle school Roundtable presentation – a 45-minute oral presentation given to families, Unity faculty, and community members, and;
  • Intensive counseling in College & Career Readiness beginning in 9th grade.

Key Design Elements: Collectively, these elements reflect our beliefs on what makes for an exceptional secondary education in today’s world:

• A culturally relevant and rigorous college-ready curriculum that is rooted in the liberal arts and sciences, including high-school level Regents courses in middle school and 11 Advanced Placement courses available in high school
• A skillful team of devoted educators who inspire students to be their best selves, coupling high expectations with high support, and serving as role models for students. Unity’s educators are lifelong learners who take the utmost pride in perfecting their craft:
  • Over 50% of our teachers coach athletic teams, lead enrichment clubs, or teach summer courses
  • Our students have benefitted from a teacher retention rate of 80% over the past two years
• Expanded time for learning, including a 12-month calendar year for select students that allows for differentiation, universal growth, enrichment, and acceleration:
  • 25% of our students experience academic and extracurricular programming over a full calendar year; this subpopulation represents students who most benefit from more intensive support in order that they may meet NYS learning standards, earn a high school Regents diploma, and succeed in their postsecondary pursuits
• Highly customized support and specialized counseling throughout students’ time at Unity and beyond – this includes a staff-to-student ratio of 5:1 with a majority of courses as co-taught, along with intensive counseling from our five full-time academic counselors and four full-time social workers
• A positive and supportive discipline system & school culture built on a framework of Positive Behavioral Interventions & Supports (PBIS) in which sound character traits, healthy habits, and strong socio-emotional skills are explicitly taught and cultivated by compassionate adults:
  • 100% of students having designated advisors that they meet with weekly
  • Best practices in restorative justice are commonly utilized, including circles and mediation
• A wide range of extracurricular offerings, enrichment courses, and community service opportunities that expose students to potential passions and pursuits, including:
  • One of the largest athletic programs among public schools in Brooklyn, with 18 athletic teams that span grades 6-12
  • Performing and visual arts courses in theatre, art & design, dance, as well as world languages and speech & debate
  • Over 20 elective clubs offered to students after school and over the summer, including but not limited to student government, culinary arts, personal fitness, film-making, peer mediation, blogging, climbing, and gaming

Core Responsibilities: Key responsibilities of Unity’s learning specialists include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Collaboratively plan a rigorous, differentiated, engaging, and culturally responsive curriculum that caters to the unique talents, needs, and multiple intelligences of students with disabilities
• Implement Specially Designed Instruction (SDI) in integrated co-teaching (ICT) and/or special education teacher support services (SETSS) settings with a focus on teaching to mastery and/or conceptual understanding
• Utilize data from formative assessments in the classroom and school-wide interim assessments to adjust instruction on a regular basis
• Provide additional remediation and acceleration based on formative assessments so that individual students are appropriately challenged according to their zones of proximal development
• Ensure that classroom time is well-utilized through sound classroom management practices and by developing strong and trusting relationships with students
• Develop, implement, and/or manage individualized behavioral intervention plans to support students meeting established academic and non-academic goals
• Actively participate in opportunities to strengthen their own pedagogical skills as well as contribute to the learning of colleagues
• Serve as the advisor to a group of students to support their academic and non-academic growth and development
• Contribute to the school’s smooth and efficient operation by fulfilling required administrative duties and responsibilities and maintaining open and proactive communication with colleagues
• Build strong relationships with families through consistent communication and in following through on commitments

As professionals, all Unity teachers may participate in the school’s innovative teacher-career ladder, which provides a formal and transparent pathway for teachers to:

• develop their craft and improve as educators through multiple forms of support and training
• assume titles with commensurate responsibilities while remaining classroom practitioners
• be generously compensated and formally recognized for their positive contributions to the school

Core Qualifications: An ideal candidate for this position is equipped with:

• At least two years of formal teaching experience in New York
• A proven track record in accelerating student growth and mastery
• A demonstrated capacity to plan rigorous, engaging, and culturally responsive curricula that align to Common Core standards
• A balance of high expectations and high support, a growth mindset, and an innate joy in working with adolescents
• Strong interpersonal and classroom management skills with a focus on building strong relationships with students and families
• An openness and responsiveness to constructive feedback and a strong commitment to continuous improvement and professional growth
• A strong work ethic that features organization, multi-tasking, flexibility, an orientation toward solutions, and a pride in meeting deadlines
• Expertise in working with diverse populations of students and families, and in differentiating instruction to fully support the needs of diverse learners
• Strong written and oral communication skills and experience working collaboratively in team settings
• Approaches the profession with maturity, humility, versatility and, of course, a sense of humor
• A Master’s Degree and certified as a teacher in New York

To Apply: If you seek to contribute meaningfully to the development and successful operation of an innovative public school with a strong team of talented educators, please visit http://www.unityprep.org/careers to begin the application process.

As an equal opportunity employer, Unity Preparatory Charter School of Brooklyn hires without consideration to race, religion, creed, color, national origin, age, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, or disability.

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START DATE: August 2023

Overview of Position: A strong and dedicated faculty is paramount to best serving our students and families and to establishing Unity as an exemplary school. Most critically, our faculty equip students with the knowledge and skills needed to experience secondary and postsecondary success, including the desire and capacity to learn independently, think critically, and communicate proficiently.  Our  Instructional Coach & Chairperson of the High School History Department has the privilege and responsibility of leading our team of social science teachers in the delivery of these outcomes as they advance students’ knowledge and skills as burgeoning historians, social scientists, and informed members of society.

Brief Overview of our School: Unity’s Core Purpose is to provide all students with an exceptional educational experience that empowers them to lead fulfilling lives.

As a small, open-enrollment, community-based  charter school that proudly serves the families of central Brooklyn in grades 6-12, a Unity education is best described as personalized, inclusive, well-rounded, and keenly focused on each child’s long-term growth and development as skillful learners and whole-hearted human beings.

Given these qualities, Unity’s most important resource as a school is the talent and dedication of our faculty and staff.  At its core, a school is only as good as the learning experience of students over the course of each day.  We invest significant time and resources to ensure that we, as a team, are providing all of our students with daily learning experiences that are healthy, safe, engaging, supportive, and appropriately challenging.

We aim for each and every one of our students, upon graduating from Unity, to be empowered with the skills, knowledge, experiences, and disposition to succeed in their postsecondary endeavors, lead fulfilling lives, and positively impact their communities.

Our Recent Accomplishments: Regardless of where students are academically or otherwise as they enter our school, our focus is on accelerating growth and on cultivating long-term academic and non-academic success.  This focus has reaped impressive results for our students and families in recent years. Among our accomplishments:

• 94% of our first three graduating classes earned their high school diploma in four years.
• 100% of our graduates had formal college and career plans with a college matriculation rate of 76%. This compares favorably to a 58% college matriculation rate for students in NYC.
• 95% of our graduates complete at least one Advanced Placement (AP) course in high school. This compares favorably with the 33% of NYC graduates who enroll in AP courses during their high school tenure.
• Our students who comprise subgroups that traditionally have been least effectively served by our education system, including students classified as economically disadvantaged, Black, Latino, and students with disabilities, have consistently outperformed their district and state peers in our high school graduation rates.
• In holding true to our belief in providing a truly empowering education, a vast majority of our students experience the following over their seven years at Unity:
  • After-school extra-curricular activities, including athletics and clubs;
  • Formal community service initiatives;
  • End-of-year middle school Roundtable presentation – a 45-minute oral presentation given to families, Unity faculty, and community members, and;
  • Intensive counseling in College & Career Readiness beginning in 9th grade. 

Key Design Elements: Collectively, these elements reflect our beliefs on what makes for an exceptional secondary education in today’s world:

• A culturally relevant and rigorous college-ready curriculum that is rooted in the liberal arts and sciences, including high-school level Regents courses in middle school and 11 Advanced Placement courses available in high school
• A skillful team of devoted educators who inspire students to be their best selves, coupling high expectations with high support, and serving as role models for students. Unity’s educators are lifelong learners who take the utmost pride in perfecting their craft:
  • Over 50% of our teachers coach athletic teams, lead enrichment clubs, or teach summer courses
  • Our students have benefitted from a teacher retention rate of 80% over the past two years
• Expanded time for learning, including a 12-month calendar year for select students that allows for differentiation, universal growth, enrichment, and acceleration:
  • 25% of our students experience academic and extracurricular programming over a full calendar year; this subpopulation represents students who most benefit from more intensive support in order that they may meet NYS learning standards, earn a high school Regents diploma, and succeed in their postsecondary pursuits
• Highly customized support and specialized counseling throughout students’ time at Unity and beyond – this includes a staff-to-student ratio of 5:1 with a majority of courses as co-taught, along with intensive counseling from our five full-time academic counselors and four full-time social workers
• A positive and supportive discipline system & school culture built on a framework of Positive Behavioral Interventions & Supports (PBIS) in which sound character traits, healthy habits, and strong socio-emotional skills are explicitly taught and cultivated by compassionate adults:
  • 100% of students having designated advisors that they meet with weekly
  • Best practices in restorative justice are commonly utilized, including circles and mediation
• A wide range of extracurricular offerings, enrichment courses, and community service opportunities that expose students to potential passions and pursuits, including:
  • One of the largest athletic programs among public schools in Brooklyn, with 18 athletic teams that span grades 6-12
  • Performing and visual arts courses in theatre, art & design, dance, as well as world languages and speech & debate
  • Over 20 elective clubs offered to students after school and over the summer, including but not limited to student government, culinary arts, personal fitness, film-making, peer mediation, blogging, climbing, and gaming

Core Responsibilities: Unity High’s Instructional Coach & Chairperson of the High School History Department has the privilege and responsibility of ensuring that our students acquire the essential knowledge and skills as social scientists and informed members of society, as measured by course credit accrual as well as performance on Regents and Advanced Placement exams. This person is also responsible for building and retaining a high-performing faculty of social science educators.  To this end, key responsibilities of the History Coach & Chairperson include but are not limited to the following:

• Teacher Development:
  • Leads classroom instruction at department level / ensures high quality of classroom instruction at department level
  • Builds, manages, and retains a strong department team
  • Trains, supports, and supervises teachers and learning specialists at dept. level – is responsible for developing teacher’s capacities with a focus on strong lesson planning, classroom management and delivery of instruction
  • Acts as a model teacher by teaching 1-2 sections of classes at an exemplary level
• Curriculum and Assessment:
  • Leads in the development of college-ready and engaging course curricula and standards-aligned, spiraled assessments at department level
• Data-Driven Instruction:
  • Manages the utilization of formative and summative assessment data to drive instruction and student proficiency/growth at department level
• Mission Alignment:
  • Ensures that teachers and learning specialists at department level manage classrooms in accordance with schoolwide policies and protocols
  • Collaborates with Deans to support teachers in effectively managing classrooms such that students’ experiences are consistently healthy, engaging, supportive, productive, and empowering

Core Qualifications: An ideal candidate for this position is equipped with:

• At least two years of instructional leadership experience
• A proven track record in accelerating student growth and mastery
• A demonstrated capacity to plan rigorous and engaging curricula that align to Common Core standards using the Understanding by Design framework
• A balance of high expectations and high support, a growth mindset, and an innate joy in working with adolescents
• Strong interpersonal and adult management skills
• An openness to giving and receiving constructive feedback and a strong commitment to continuous improvement and professional growth
• A strong work ethic that features preparation, organization, multi-tasking, flexibility, an orientation toward solutions, and a pride in meeting deadlines
• Expertise in working with diverse populations of students and families, and in differentiating instruction to fully support the needs of diverse learners
• Strong written and oral communication skills and experience working collaboratively in team settings
• Approaches the profession with maturity, humility, versatility, of course, a sense of humor

To Apply: If you seek to contribute meaningfully to the development and successful operation of an innovative public school with a strong team of talented educators, please visit http://www.unityprep.org/careers to begin the application process.

As an equal opportunity employer, Unity Preparatory Charter School of Brooklyn hires without consideration to race, religion, creed, color, national origin, age, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, or disability

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START DATE: July 2023

Overview of Position: Unity’s Director of Academic Counseling (DAC) is an essential member of our high school team.  They lead in ensuring that 100% of our students experience exceptional academic counseling throughout high school.  Specifically, this is reflected in all students being appropriately challenged and well-supported in their coursework and extra-curricular endeavors.  It is also reflected in all students reaching their potential as learners and well-prepared for postsecondary success.  Through their leadership, our DAC plays a critical role in Unity’s mission being realized: empowering students as scholars and citizens so they may lead fulfilling academic, personal, and professional lives.

Unity Prep Academic Counseling Model: 2 Year Looping Model:

• Director of Academic Counseling
• 9/10 Academic Counselor (looping)
• 11/12 Academic Counselor (looping)
• College & Career Readiness Counselor (working with 11/12th graders)
• Alumni Success Counselor

Brief Overview of our School: Unity’s Core Purpose is to provide all students with an exceptional educational experience that empowers them to lead fulfilling lives.

As a small, open-enrollment, community-based  charter school that proudly serves the families of central Brooklyn in grades 6-12, a Unity education is best described as personalized, inclusive, well-rounded, and keenly focused on each child’s long-term growth and development as skillful learners and whole-hearted human beings.

Given these qualities, Unity’s most important resource as a school is the talent and dedication of our faculty and staff.  At its core, a school is only as good as the learning experience of students over the course of each day.  We invest significant time and resources to ensure that we, as a team, are providing all of our students with daily learning experiences that are healthy, safe, engaging, supportive, and appropriately challenging.

We aim for each and every one of our students, upon graduating from Unity, to be empowered with the skills, knowledge, experiences, and disposition to succeed in their postsecondary endeavors, lead fulfilling lives, and positively impact their communities.

Our Recent Accomplishments: Regardless of where students are academically or otherwise as they enter our school, our focus is on accelerating growth and on cultivating long-term academic and non-academic success.  This focus has reaped impressive results for our students and families in recent years. Among our accomplishments:

• 94% of our first three graduating classes earned their high school diploma in four years.
• 100% of our graduates had formal college and career plans with a college matriculation rate of 76%. This compares favorably to a 58% college matriculation rate for students in NYC.
• 95% of our graduates complete at least one Advanced Placement (AP) course in high school. This compares favorably with the 33% of NYC graduates who enroll in AP courses during their high school tenure.
• Our students who comprise subgroups that traditionally have been least effectively served by our education system, including students classified as economically disadvantaged, Black, Latino, and students with disabilities, have consistently outperformed their district and state peers in our high school graduation rates.
• In holding true to our belief in providing a truly empowering education, a vast majority of our students experience the following over their seven years at Unity:
  • After-school extra-curricular activities, including athletics and clubs;
  • Formal community service initiatives;
  • End-of-year middle school Roundtable presentation – a 45-minute oral presentation given to families, Unity faculty, and community members, and;
  • Intensive counseling in College & Career Readiness beginning in 9th grade.

Key Design Elements: Collectively, these elements reflect our beliefs on what makes for an exceptional secondary education in today’s world:

• A culturally relevant and rigorous college-ready curriculum that is rooted in the liberal arts and sciences, including high-school level Regents courses in middle school and 11 Advanced Placement courses available in high school
• A skillful team of devoted educators who inspire students to be their best selves, coupling high expectations with high support, and serving as role models for students. Unity’s educators are lifelong learners who take the utmost pride in perfecting their craft:
  • Over 50% of our teachers coach athletic teams, lead enrichment clubs, or teach summer courses
  • Our students have benefitted from a teacher retention rate of 80% over the past two years
• Expanded time for learning, including a 12-month calendar year for select students that allows for differentiation, universal growth, enrichment, and acceleration:
  • 25% of our students experience academic and extracurricular programming over a full calendar year; this subpopulation represents students who most benefit from more intensive support in order that they may meet NYS learning standards, earn a high school Regents diploma, and succeed in their postsecondary pursuits
• Highly customized support and specialized counseling throughout students’ time at Unity and beyond – this includes a staff-to-student ratio of 5:1 with a majority of courses as co-taught, along with intensive counseling from our five full-time academic counselors and four full-time social workers
• A positive and supportive discipline system & school culture built on a framework of Positive Behavioral Interventions & Supports (PBIS) in which sound character traits, healthy habits, and strong socio-emotional skills are explicitly taught and cultivated by compassionate adults:
  • 100% of students having designated advisors that they meet with weekly
  • Best practices in restorative justice are commonly utilized, including circles and mediation
• A wide range of extracurricular offerings, enrichment courses, and community service opportunities that expose students to potential passions and pursuits, including:
  • One of the largest athletic programs among public schools in Brooklyn, with 18 athletic teams that span grades 6-12
  • Performing and visual arts courses in theatre, art & design, dance, as well as world languages and speech & debate
  • Over 20 elective clubs offered to students after school and over the summer, including but not limited to student government, culinary arts, personal fitness, film-making, peer mediation, blogging, climbing, and gaming

Core Responsibilities: Key responsibilities of this position include, but are not limited to, the following:

Leadership/Development/Management:

• Hires, trains, and manages the academic counseling team ,
• Supervises the collection, organization, and distribution of post-secondary educational and occupational information.
• Holds regular department meetings to communicate curriculum initiatives, share ideas, and plan for ongoing improvements
• Evaluates the quality of work of academic counselors at all levels

 Student/Caregiver-Facing Work:

• Provides ongoing academic and guidance counseling to students on caseload
• Develops, implements and refines tier 1-3 interventions including curriculum development for advisory lessons (tier 1), group interventions (tier 2) and individual interventions (tier 3) as needed
• Conducts regular outreach to families/caregivers of students
• Participates caregiver conferences and facilitates February conferences for tier 2 and tier 3 students who are at risk for promotion or graduation in doubt
• Provides recommendations for revision of the guidance curriculum program as needed
• Supervises, coordinates and implements the development, organization, and implementation of developmental and/or career guidance and/or advisory curriculum units in advisories and classrooms

Counseling Work:

• Ensures students in counseling caseload make satisfactory progress toward credit accumulation and on-time graduation
• Communicates proactively with parents/caregivers of students regarding academic performance
• Identifies academic and non-academic needs of students and connects students with resources based on those identified needs
• Ensures that students and families/caregivers understand credit and Regent accumulation in relation to students’ post-secondary goals
• Counsels students on importance of Regents scores, GPA, and SAT scores as they relate to students’ post-secondary goals
• Facilitates 1:1 and group academic interventions as needed
• Attends IEP meetings as needed
• Counsels students on colleges, majors, and career exploration
• Actively communicates and collaborates with grade team teachers, social work team, and counseling team in order to ensure holistic support of student
• Maintains up-to-date case notes for each student on caseload
• Researches and provides information on after school and summer internships, jobs, programs and/or college-campus experiences for students
• Supports students who may need a transfer school, TASC program or setting other than Unity in finding, applying for and enrolling in appropriate placement.

Programming/Scheduling/Data Collection:

• In collaboration with the operations team, the Director of Academic Counseling is responsible for the management and completion of annual school programming, transcript updates and ongoing enrollment
• Ensures that student schedules accurately reflect academic progress toward graduation, including students who enroll mid-semester
• Assists teachers when students enroll mid-semester, making sure that teachers receive guidance on integrating the students into coursework, and ensuring that previous grades, credits, and evaluations are handled appropriately
• Keeps abreast of all high school graduation requirements and tracks student progress toward graduation
• Manages and keeps up to date records on the add/drop period in September
• Maintains accurate records of all student documents, including transcripts
• Completes all necessary reporting

Other:

• Serves as an active member of School Leadership Team (SLT) Interdisciplinary Team (IDT) and graduation committees in order to bring an academic counseling lens to leadership spaces
• Develops, leads, and participates in summer and year-long staff-wide professional development in collaboration with the ILT and SLT
• Manages the expansion of the Academic Counseling team to the middle school site
• Interprets the guidance program to the faculty and acts as a consultant to them
• Collaborates with school staff members in need of support or consultation regarding students academic needs
• Consults bi-weekly counselor conversations providing data and updates on students needs to school faculty and staff

Core Qualifications: An ideal candidate for this position is equipped with:

• At least 5 years of experience in high school guidance counseling and/or college/career counseling; management and adult development experience strongly preferred
• A balance of high expectations and high support, a growth mindset, and an innate enjoyment of working with young people
• Demonstrably strong organizational and interpersonal skills
• An acumen for actively engaging students in her/his own learning, academically and non-academically
• A demonstrated openness and responsiveness to constructive feedback and a strong commitment to continuous improvement and professional growth
• A strong work ethic that features organization, multi-tasking, flexibility, an orientation toward solutions, and a pride in meeting deadlines
• Expertise in working with diverse populations of students and families to fully support the needs of diverse learners
• Strong written and oral communication skills and experience working collaboratively in team settings
• Approaches the profession with maturity, humility, versatility (i.e., embraces the ambiguity and excitement associated with start-ups), a sense of humor

Requirements:

• A Master’s Degree in counseling or related field
• An active NYS counseling license

To Apply: If you seek to contribute meaningfully to the development and successful operation of an innovative public school with a strong team of talented educators, please visit http://www.unityprep.org/careers to submit a cover letter and resume and begin the application process.

As an equal opportunity employer, Unity Preparatory Charter School of Brooklyn hires without consideration of race, religion, creed, color, national origin, age, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, or disability.

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START DATE: June 2023

Overview of Position: Our Counselor of College and Career Readiness (Counselor of CCR) is an essential member of our high school team.  They lead in ensuring that 100% of our students have individualized postsecondary plans upon graduating from Unity.  This includes a vast majority of our students applying, being accepted, and enrolling in a college that will serve them well.  It also includes our students who do not immediately enroll in college after graduation having concrete career training programming established upon graduation.  Through their leadership, our Counselor of CCR plays a critical role in Unity’s mission being realized: empowering students as scholars and citizens so they may lead fulfilling academic, personal, and professional lives.

Unity’s CCR program is designed to:

1. Support students and alumni in developing and executing personally meaningful post-secondary plans.
2. Expose Unity students and alumni to curated, accessible information and experiences regarding post-secondary options.
3. Develop actionable mastery of David T. Conley’s “Think, Know, Act, Go” framework.
4. Foster and maintain meaningful connections between Unity and alumni.
5. Assist alumni in avoiding pitfalls related to post-secondary programs.

Brief Overview of our School: Unity’s Core Purpose is to provide all students with an exceptional educational experience that empowers them to lead fulfilling lives.

As a small, open-enrollment, community-based  charter school that proudly serves the families of central Brooklyn in grades 6-12, a Unity education is best described as personalized, inclusive, well-rounded, and keenly focused on each child’s long-term growth and development as skillful learners and whole-hearted human beings.

Given these qualities, Unity’s most important resource as a school is the talent and dedication of our faculty and staff.  At its core, a school is only as good as the learning experience of students over the course of each day.  We invest significant time and resources to ensure that we, as a team, are providing all of our students with daily learning experiences that are healthy, safe, engaging, supportive, and appropriately challenging.  

We aim for each and every one of our students, upon graduating from Unity, to be empowered with the skills, knowledge, experiences, and disposition to succeed in their postsecondary endeavors, lead fulfilling lives, and positively impact their communities.

Our Recent Accomplishments: Regardless of where students are academically or otherwise as they enter our school, our focus is on accelerating growth and on cultivating long-term academic and non-academic success.  This focus has reaped impressive results for our students and families in recent years. Among our accomplishments:

• 94% of our first three graduating classes earned their high school diploma in four years.
• 100% of our graduates had formal college and career plans with a college matriculation rate of 76%. This compares favorably to a 58% college matriculation rate for students in NYC.
• 95% of our graduates complete at least one Advanced Placement (AP) course in high school. This compares favorably with the 33% of NYC graduates who enroll in AP courses during their high school tenure.
• Our students who comprise subgroups that traditionally have been least effectively served by our education system, including students classified as economically disadvantaged, Black, Latino, and students with disabilities, have consistently outperformed their district and state peers in our high school graduation rates.
• In holding true to our belief in providing a truly empowering education, a vast majority of our students experience the following over their seven years at Unity:
  • After-school extra-curricular activities, including athletics and clubs;
  • Formal community service initiatives;
  • End-of-year middle school Roundtable presentation – a 45-minute oral presentation given to families, Unity faculty, and community members, and;
  • Intensive counseling in College & Career Readiness beginning in 9th grade.

Key Design Elements: Collectively, these elements reflect our beliefs on what makes for an exceptional secondary education in today’s world:

• A culturally relevant and rigorous college-ready curriculum that is rooted in the liberal arts and sciences, including high-school level Regents courses in middle school and 11 Advanced Placement courses available in high school
• A skillful team of devoted educators who inspire students to be their best selves, coupling high expectations with high support, and serving as role models for students. Unity’s educators are lifelong learners who take the utmost pride in perfecting their craft:
  • Over 50% of our teachers coach athletic teams, lead enrichment clubs, or teach summer courses
  • Our students have benefitted from a teacher retention rate of 80% over the past two years
• Expanded time for learning, including a 12-month calendar year for select students that allows for differentiation, universal growth, enrichment, and acceleration:
  • 25% of our students experience academic and extracurricular programming over a full calendar year; this subpopulation represents students who most benefit from more intensive support in order that they may meet NYS learning standards, earn a high school Regents diploma, and succeed in their postsecondary pursuits
• Highly customized support and specialized counseling throughout students’ time at Unity and beyond – this includes a staff-to-student ratio of 5:1 with a majority of courses as co-taught, along with intensive counseling from our five full-time academic counselors and four full-time social workers
• A positive and supportive discipline system & school culture built on a framework of Positive Behavioral Interventions & Supports (PBIS) in which sound character traits, healthy habits, and strong socio-emotional skills are explicitly taught and cultivated by compassionate adults:
  • 100% of students having designated advisors that they meet with weekly
  • Best practices in restorative justice are commonly utilized, including circles and mediation
• A wide range of extracurricular offerings, enrichment courses, and community service opportunities that expose students to potential passions and pursuits, including:
  • One of the largest athletic programs among public schools in Brooklyn, with 18 athletic teams that span grades 6-12
  • Performing and visual arts courses in theatre, art & design, dance, as well as world languages and speech & debate
  • Over 20 elective clubs offered to students after school and over the summer, including but not limited to student government, culinary arts, personal fitness, film-making, peer mediation, blogging, climbing, and gaming

Core Responsibilities: Key responsibilities of this position include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Post-Secondary Counseling
  • Build excitement and awareness around post-secondary options through school-wide events and initiatives, the CCR course, and small-group and individual consultation
  • Provide post-secondary counseling to the senior class (~70-80 students)
  • Ensure each student has a formal post-secondary plan; review and provide feedback on student application and materials
  • Maintain up-to-date case records and notes for all students in caseload
  • Conduct quarterly outreach to caregivers and families regarding student post-secondary plans, application processes, key steps, and notifications
  • Coordinate and facilitate workshops for students and families (see list below)
  • Manage experiential learning opportunities for students (internships, job shadows, and part-time employment)
• Liaise with Post-Secondary Institutions
  • Expand and deepen Unity’s existing network of post-secondary institutions
  • Advocate for Unity students as they apply for post-secondary opportunities
  • Assess quality of matching Unity applicants with each post-secondary program
• Develop and Reinforce Students’ Academic Habits, Life Skills, and Executive Functioning Skills
  • Teach the 12th grade level College and Career Readiness course
  • Manage and update curricula as necessary
  • Develop student mastery of Academic Habits, Life Skills, and Executive Functioning Skills
• Professional Development
  • Provide and/or coordinate professional development opportunities for Unity’s staff and faculty – topics may include recommendation writing, promoting healthy post-secondary habits, etc.
  • Participate in trainings to continually develop counseling skills and best practices
• Event Coordination
  • Oversee all school culture initiatives related to post-secondary preparation and options
  • In-school displays (bulletin boards)
  • Coordinate all CCR events:
    • Student and Family Workshops
    • Post-secondary pathway workshop
    • Post-secondary application workshops
    • Financial aid (introduction to and completion of applications)
    • Post-secondary application essay writing workshops
    • Scholarship workshops
    • College Fairs (two each year)
    • Career Fair (annually)
    • Information sessions regarding niche post-secondary programs (e.g., college Opportunity Programs, trade schools, etc.)
    • Visits by college and post-secondary program representatives
    • College Signing Day (annually)
    • Senior Roundtable Presentations
    • Co-Coordinate grade-specific college trips (at least one each year for grades 9-12)
    • Co-Coordinate Alumni Success Program events
    • Alumni Juneteenth Reunion
    • Alumni professional development sessions
    • Alumni workshops
    • Alumni visits to Unity Prep High School (panel discussions, etc.)
  • Data Management
    • Track and update performance metrics for all post-secondary preparatory initiatives, ensuring Unity’s performance meets or exceeds national and subgroup averages
    • Create and present reports for key stakeholders (Unity families, board members, school leadership) using CCR performance data
  • Communication and Collaboration
    • Meets regularly with direct supervisor, the Director of Academic Counseling
    • Meets regularly with Alumni Success Counselor
    • Participates in regular meetings among the academic counseling team

Qualifications: An ideal candidate for this position is equipped with:

• Bachelor’s degree or Master’s degree in education or a related field is highly desirable
• At least 5 years of experience as College and/or Career Counselor or a comparable position in a comparable organization
• Demonstrated expertise in post-secondary counseling (including non-college post-secondary options)
• At least two years of high school or college teaching experience
• Expertise in developing and supporting resilience and leadership in low-income and/or minority children and families
• A demonstrated openness and responsiveness to constructive feedback and a strong commitment to continuous improvement and professional growth
• Excellent problem-solving, collaboration, communication, and networking skills
• Exemplary verbal and written communication skills; strong interpersonal skills with students, parents, colleagues, and community members; experience working collaboratively in team settings
• An approach to work that illustrates maturity, humility, versatility, a solution-oriented mindset, a strong work ethic, and, of course, a sense of humor
• Proficiency in MS Office Suite programs, Google Apps for Education programs, and ATS
• The highest standard of excellence for herself/himself
• A deep commitment to acting with honesty and integrity in all matters involving Unity students, parents, staff, and community members
• Bilingual Spanish/English is highly desirable
• Evidence of exemplary program development, management experience, expertise in college access programming, college financial aid, and admissions processes
• Highly organized with exceptional attention to detail
• Experience in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment

To Apply: If you seek to contribute meaningfully to the development and successful operation of an innovative public school with a strong team of talented educators and administrators, please visit http://www.unityprep.org/careers to submit a cover letter and resume and begin the application process.

As an equal opportunity employer, Unity Preparatory Charter School of Brooklyn hires without consideration to race, religion, creed, color, national origin, age, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, or disability.

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START DATE: Summer 2023

Overview of Position:  The Alumni Success Program (ASP) is designed to be the culmination of Unity’s collective work and mission. Through academic and life counseling, career preparation, professional development, and event coordination, the ASP currently supports our 200+ alumni as they pursue their individual post-secondary endeavors. Reporting to the Alumni Success Manager, the Alumni Success Counselor will play an integral role in providing these and other services, supports, and opportunities to Unity’s alumni.

The Alumni Success Program is designed to accomplish the following goals:

• Support Unity Prep students in graduating high school with specific and actionable post-secondary plans,
• Assist alumni in matriculating in their chosen post-secondary programs,
• Create necessary and beneficial connections for alumni in their post-secondary programs,
• Maintain fruitful connections between Unity and other alumni,
• Avoid pitfalls related to post-secondary programs (e.g., excessive debt, enrollment in low-performing programs, failure to accumulate sufficient credits, inability to find fulfilling work, etc.),
• Promote alumni persistence in their chosen post-secondary programs,
• Support alumni in their pursuits to graduate on time from their chosen post-secondary programs, and
• Create pathways for alumni to enter fulfilling career fields at levels commensurate with their training.

Brief Overview of our School: Unity’s Core Purpose is to provide all students with an exceptional educational experience that empowers them to lead fulfilling lives. 

As a small, open-enrollment, community-based  charter school that proudly serves the families of central Brooklyn in grades 6-12, a Unity education is best described as personalized, inclusive, well-rounded, and keenly focused on each child’s long-term growth and development as skillful learners and whole-hearted human beings.

Given these qualities, Unity’s most important resource as a school is the talent and dedication of our faculty and staff.  At its core, a school is only as good as the learning experience of students over the course of each day.  We invest significant time and resources to ensure that we, as a team, are providing all of our students with daily learning experiences that are healthy, safe, engaging, supportive, and appropriately challenging.

We aim for each and every one of our students, upon graduating from Unity, to be empowered with the skills, knowledge, experiences, and disposition to succeed in their postsecondary endeavors, lead fulfilling lives, and positively impact their communities.

Our Recent Accomplishments: Regardless of where students are academically or otherwise as they enter our school, our focus is on accelerating growth and on cultivating long-term academic and non-academic success.  This focus has reaped impressive results for our students and families in recent years. Among our accomplishments:

• 94% of our first three graduating classes earned their high school diploma in four years.
• 100% of our graduates had formal college and career plans with a college matriculation rate of 76%. This compares favorably to a 58% college matriculation rate for students in NYC.
• 95% of our graduates complete at least one Advanced Placement (AP) course in high school. This compares favorably with the 33% of NYC graduates who enroll in AP courses during their high school tenure.
• Our students who comprise subgroups that traditionally have been least effectively served by our education system, including students classified as economically disadvantaged, Black, Latino, and students with disabilities, have consistently outperformed their district and state peers in our high school graduation rates.
• In holding true to our belief in providing a truly empowering education, a vast majority of our students experience the following over their seven years at Unity:
  • After-school extra-curricular activities, including athletics and clubs;
  • Formal community service initiatives;
  • End-of-year middle school Roundtable presentation – a 45-minute oral presentation given to families, Unity faculty, and community members, and;
  • Intensive counseling in College & Career Readiness beginning in 9th grade.

Key Design Elements: Collectively, these elements reflect our beliefs on what makes for an exceptional secondary education in today’s world:

• A culturally relevant and rigorous college-ready curriculum that is rooted in the liberal arts and sciences, including high-school level Regents courses in middle school and 11 Advanced Placement courses available in high school
• A skillful team of devoted educators who inspire students to be their best selves, coupling high expectations with high support, and serving as role models for students. Unity’s educators are lifelong learners who take the utmost pride in perfecting their craft:
  • Over 50% of our teachers coach athletic teams, lead enrichment clubs, or teach summer courses
  • Our students have benefitted from a teacher retention rate of 80% over the past two years
• Expanded time for learning, including a 12-month calendar year for select students that allows for differentiation, universal growth, enrichment, and acceleration:
  • 25% of our students experience academic and extracurricular programming over a full calendar year; this subpopulation represents students who most benefit from more intensive support in order that they may meet NYS learning standards, earn a high school Regents diploma, and succeed in their postsecondary pursuits
• Highly customized support and specialized counseling throughout students’ time at Unity and beyond – this includes a staff-to-student ratio of 5:1 with a majority of courses as co-taught, along with intensive counseling from our five full-time academic counselors and four full-time social workers
• A positive and supportive discipline system & school culture built on a framework of Positive Behavioral Interventions & Supports (PBIS) in which sound character traits, healthy habits, and strong socio-emotional skills are explicitly taught and cultivated by compassionate adults:
  • 100% of students having designated advisors that they meet with weekly
  • Best practices in restorative justice are commonly utilized, including circles and mediation
• A wide range of extracurricular offerings, enrichment courses, and community service opportunities that expose students to potential passions and pursuits, including:
  • One of the largest athletic programs among public schools in Brooklyn, with 18 athletic teams that span grades 6-12
  • Performing and visual arts courses in theatre, art & design, dance, as well as world languages and speech & debate
  • Over 20 elective clubs offered to students after school and over the summer, including but not limited to student government, culinary arts, personal fitness, film-making, peer mediation, blogging, climbing, and gaming

Core Responsibilities: Key responsibilities of Unity’s Alumni Success Counselor include but are not limited to the following:

1. Alumni Engagement and Support

• Provide post-secondary academic, career, and financial aid counseling
• Provide technical support for application processes related to post-secondary programs, jobs, and financial aid
• Support development of executive functions and positive habits, such as time management, study skills, organization, etc. for caseload
• Refer alumni in need of socio-emotional support to appropriate resources
• Facilitate and support accessing post-secondary supports (academic supports, mental and physical health resources, career training, etc.)
• Support with the process of college matriculation and transfers
• Nurture student and family relationships to maintain a sense of community amongst all Unity alumni and their families
• Identify and refer alumni to job and internship opportunities
• Managing/training Alumni Ambassadors who support other alumni
• Facilitate job and internship placement support and professional development
• Travel to meet with students in person on college campuses/job sites

1. Event Coordination

• Assist with coordination of Alumni events, including creation of event collateral, such as event programs, flyers, website pages, etc.
• Conduct outreach to alumni and program partners

1. Data Tracking and Monitoring

• Keep meticulous records and data on status of students in college, including, but not limited to:
  • Completion of CSS Profile/FAFSA/TAP,
  • Academic performance/success,
  • Case notes,
  • Outreach efforts,
  • Alumni engagement,
  • Summer programming, and
  • College retention and graduation rates.
• Track alumni placements over time: college, career training programs, jobs, and internships
• Collecting and cataloging research re: post-secondary program metrics

1. Web-based Alumni Engagement

• Maintaining website, LinkedIn page
• Researching jobs and programs, updating list on website
• Creating/managing online resources (YouTube videos, tutorials, workshops, etc.)
• Develop and administer alumni surveys and analyze engagement
• Managing social media accounts

Core Qualifications: An ideal candidate for this position is equipped with:

• Bachelor’s degree in education, psychology, or related field
• Deep passion for Unity’s mission and the goals of the Alumni Success Program
• Energized by and demonstrated skill in student engagement and relationship building
• Highly skilled in usage of social media and networking tools/platforms such as LinkedIn
• Demonstrated commitment to diversity: views others with a strengths-based lens, values all individuals, and respects differences
• Strong communication skills and ability to effectively represent Unity
• Superior organizational, time management, and follow-up skills; ability to handle multiple priorities
• Commitment to impact: learning and evolving by listening to the community we serve, evaluating our efforts, and adjusting to ensure meaningful results
• Comfortable with conducting outreach (position is primarily remote) and using email, text, and social media
• Strong technical and data tracking and reporting skills (e.g., familiarity with MS Excel and Google Suite)
• An openness and responsiveness to constructive feedback and a strong commitment to continuous improvement and professional growth

To Apply: If you seek to contribute meaningfully to the development and successful operation of an innovative public school with a strong team of talented educators, please visit http://www.unityprep.org/careers to begin the application process.

As an equal opportunity employer, Unity Preparatory Charter School of Brooklyn hires without consideration to race, religion, creed, color, national origin, age, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, or disability.

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START DATE: August 2023

Overview of Position: A strong and dedicated faculty is paramount to best serving our students and families and to establishing Unity as an exemplary school. Most critically, our faculty equip students with the knowledge and skills needed to experience secondary and postsecondary success, including the desire and capacity to learn independently, think critically, and communicate proficiently.  Our Coordinator of Special Projects has the privilege and responsibility of delivering on these outcomes through the coordination of new and promising school initiatives.

Brief Overview of our School: Unity’s Core Purpose is to provide all students with an exceptional educational experience that empowers them to lead fulfilling lives. 

As a small, open-enrollment, community-based  charter school that proudly serves the families of central Brooklyn in grades 6-12, a Unity education is best described as personalized, inclusive, well-rounded, and keenly focused on each child’s long-term growth and development as skillful learners and whole-hearted human beings.

Given these qualities, Unity’s most important resource as a school is the talent and dedication of our faculty and staff.  At its core, a school is only as good as the learning experience of students over the course of each day.  We invest significant time and resources to ensure that we, as a team, are providing all of our students with daily learning experiences that are healthy, safe, engaging, supportive, and appropriately challenging.  

We aim for each and every one of our students, upon graduating from Unity, to be empowered with the skills, knowledge, experiences, and disposition to succeed in their postsecondary endeavors, lead fulfilling lives, and positively impact their communities.

Our Recent Accomplishments: Regardless of where students are academically or otherwise as they enter our school, our focus is on accelerating growth and on cultivating long-term academic and non-academic success.  This focus has reaped impressive results for our students and families in recent years. Among our accomplishments:

• 94% of our first three graduating classes earned their high school diploma in four years.
• 100% of our graduates had formal college and career plans with a college matriculation rate of 76%. This compares favorably to a 58% college matriculation rate for students in NYC.
• 95% of our graduates complete at least one Advanced Placement (AP) course in high school. This compares favorably with the 33% of NYC graduates who enroll in AP courses during their high school tenure.
• Our students who comprise subgroups that traditionally have been least effectively served by our education system, including students classified as economically disadvantaged, Black, Latino, and students with disabilities, have consistently outperformed their district and state peers in our high school graduation rates.
• In holding true to our belief in providing a truly empowering education, a vast majority of our students experience the following over their seven years at Unity:
  • After-school extra-curricular activities, including athletics and clubs;
  • Formal community service initiatives;
  • End-of-year middle school Roundtable presentation – a 45-minute oral presentation given to families, Unity faculty, and community members, and;
  • Intensive counseling in College & Career Readiness beginning in 9th grade.

Key Design Elements: Collectively, these elements reflect our beliefs on what makes for an exceptional secondary education in today’s world:

• A culturally relevant and rigorous college-ready curriculum that is rooted in the liberal arts and sciences, including high-school level Regents courses in middle school and 11 Advanced Placement courses available in high school
• A skillful team of devoted educators who inspire students to be their best selves, coupling high expectations with high support, and serving as role models for students. Unity’s educators are lifelong learners who take the utmost pride in perfecting their craft:
  • Over 50% of our teachers coach athletic teams, lead enrichment clubs, or teach summer courses
  • Our students have benefitted from a teacher retention rate of 80% over the past two years
• Expanded time for learning, including a 12-month calendar year for select students that allows for differentiation, universal growth, enrichment, and acceleration:
  • 25% of our students experience academic and extracurricular programming over a full calendar year; this subpopulation represents students who most benefit from more intensive support in order that they may meet NYS learning standards, earn a high school Regents diploma, and succeed in their postsecondary pursuits
• Highly customized support and specialized counseling throughout students’ time at Unity and beyond – this includes a staff-to-student ratio of 5:1 with a majority of courses as co-taught, along with intensive counseling from our five full-time academic counselors and four full-time social workers
• A positive and supportive discipline system & school culture built on a framework of Positive Behavioral Interventions & Supports (PBIS) in which sound character traits, healthy habits, and strong socio-emotional skills are explicitly taught and cultivated by compassionate adults:
  • 100% of students having designated advisors that they meet with weekly
  • Best practices in restorative justice are commonly utilized, including circles and mediation
• A wide range of extracurricular offerings, enrichment courses, and community service opportunities that expose students to potential passions and pursuits, including:
  • One of the largest athletic programs among public schools in Brooklyn, with 18 athletic teams that span grades 6-12
  • Performing and visual arts courses in theatre, art & design, dance, as well as world languages and speech & debate
  • Over 20 elective clubs offered to students after school and over the summer, including but not limited to student government, culinary arts, personal fitness, film-making, peer mediation, blogging, climbing, and gaming

Core Responsibilities: Key responsibilities of Unity’s Coordinator of Special Projects include, but are not limited to, the following:

Technology:

• Maintain Unity’s technology infrastructure
• Conduct inventory of Unity’s technological assets at regular intervals in conjunction with the School Aide at each site
• Coordinate loss prevention efforts
• Coordinate maintenance of staff and student computers, school website, and school wireless networks
• Update and maintain Unity’s Fixed Asset Tracker
• Maintain Unity’s bell schedule and public address system
• Perform laptop/chromebook repairs (preferred)
• Comfortable with designing flyers and planning events
• Intermediate skills with Google Suites and Microsoft Office

Student Attendance Tracking

• Maintain school-wide attendance data to identify attendance rates and chronically absent students
• Coordinate with Unity’s Social Workers to support chronically absent students
• Act as liaison with NYCDOE with respect to attendance data
• Ensure the accuracy of student attendance in conjunction with the Operations Manager

Assessment Coordination

• Receive testing materials from NYCDOE/NYS and ensure secure storage
• Support the coordination of interim assessments, mock state tests and actual state tests
• Coordinate the collection and organization of test materials
• Facilitate submission of test materials to scoring site
• Manage and facilitate all aspects of the 8th Grade State Science Test

Student Information Systems

• Manage all aspects of Jupiter grades system
• Upload and continuously update student/family contact information, courses/sections, class meetings calendar, bell schedule and any other system fields pertinent to use at Unity
• Manage all aspects of GoGuardian, including staff access, training, and serve as Super Admin
• Orient staff on program features in relation to monitoring student technology use
• Upload and continuously update sections/classes in system to ensure it remains in sync with offerings via Jupiter
• Manage all aspects of School Messenger system
• Ensure that all automatic exports from Jupiter to school messenger are successful, make edits and changes to system and export files as needed

Facilities and Safety

• Serve as facilities liaison between co-located school administration pertaining to building usage, custodians, school foods and school safety personnel
• Ensure that all extended space use permits are entered in a timely manner via the Custodial Payroll System, that School Safety personnel receive permit and that permit information is entered in Unity’s permit tracking system
• Serve as Building Response Team leader in conjunction with PS44 BRT leader and coordinate all required safety drills at regular intervals
• Ensures staff readiness in case of various emergencies by orienting staff to drill types and their responses

Miscellaneous

• Ability to lift up to 60lbs unaccompanied
• Assist with substitute teachers’ on-boarding
• Being a point person to research vendors and receive quotes
• Organize student perception survey information in drive for teacher and leadership viewing
• Support facilitation of student perception surveys and DOE parent/student surveys
• Supporting the operations manager with one off projects and day to day school management

Core Qualifications: An ideal candidate for this position is equipped with:

• At least two years of formal professional experience in schools
• A balance of high expectations and high support, a growth mindset, and an innate joy in working with adolescents
• Strong interpersonal and management skills with a focus on building strong relationships with students and families
• An openness and responsiveness to constructive feedback and a strong commitment to continuous improvement and professional growth
• A strong work ethic that features organization, multi-tasking, flexibility, an orientation toward solutions, and a pride in meeting deadlines
• Is committed to acting with honesty and integrity in all matters involving Unity students, parents, staff, and community members
• Expertise in working with diverse populations of students and families, and in differentiating instruction to fully support the needs of diverse learners
• Strong written and oral communication skills and experience working collaboratively in team settings
• Approaches the profession with maturity, humility, versatility and, of course, a sense of humor
• Proficient in Google Workspace and MS Office Suite programs is required; experience with ATS, CIR is preferred
• A Bachelor’s Degree

To Apply: If you seek to contribute meaningfully to the development and successful operation of an innovative public school with a strong team of talented educators, please visit http://www.unityprep.org/careers to begin the application process.

As an equal opportunity employer, Unity Preparatory Charter School of Brooklyn hires without consideration to race, religion, creed, color, national origin, age, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, or disability.

Apply Here