Bricolage Academy Middle School is searching for a Middle School Science Teacher. Bricolage is a New Orleans charter school that started in 2013 with a Kindergarten and grew one year, and one grade, at a time until school year 2021-2022, during which we served Pk-8th grades. We opened our Middle School in the 2018 - 2019 school year when our founding class entered 5th grade.

BRICOLAGE MIDDLE SCHOOL OVERVIEW

Instructional Model

The Bricolage Academy Middle School Science Teacher will deliver the Next Generation Science Standards aligned Amplify Science or IQWST Curriculum. Best-practice science strategies will also be implemented. Additionally, the science teacher will adapt the curriculum to ensure that it is culturally relevant.

Students will take four years of Math using the Illustrative Math Curriculum, a hands-on approach to learning the concepts and applications of math.

Students take four years of ELA and Social Studies. The ELA and Social Studies curriculum will derive from LDOE guides, Wit and Wisdom, the DBQ Project, and The Writing Revolution. Frequently, the Social Studies and ELA classes will collaborate on literacy strategies, including vocabulary and knowledge-building.

Students can choose their Co Curricular classes and have options of Spanish, Music, Workshop, Physical Education, and Art. Students will specialize in specific skills, arts, and languages throughout their time at Bricolage Middle School.

Personalized Learning

Each day, students spend one block on an individualized schedule called Personalized Learning, or PL. During this block, they get “just right” instruction designed to meet their individual academic and social-emotional goals. During this time, students may be working on:

• Adaptive learning programs

• Teacher curated playlists

• Independent practice

• Small group remediation, intervention, or extension

• Projects

• Interventions

School Culture

Restorative Practices, Social Emotional Learning curriculum, and a robust PBIS system are used to proactively build a physically and emotionally safe, joyful, inclusive, and supportive school culture. We also emphasize family engagement to support and create a full school community.

DUTIES

Specifically, the Middle School Science Teacher is responsible for:

• student outcomes. We use multiple measures to assess student learning and preparedness, but it’s on teachers to deliver.

• creating a classroom culture where students:

  • share in its ownership

  • treat each other with empathy and act with integrity

  • learn how to be responsibly autonomous

• delivering engaging, rigorous, and effective science instruction that includes:

• inquiry-based science instruction that includes application of concepts through hands-on experimental labs

• explicit teaching of reading, writing, and discourse for science

• project based instruction

• actively seeking ways to supplement the dominant narrative approach to literacy with culturally responsive pedagogy

• differentiating instruction to meet the needs of each individual student

• integrating technology, innovation, and design thinking into instruction

• being an active member of the school community including assuming before, during, and after school duty posts, advising/mentoring small groups of students and attending school activities and events

• developing relationships with colleagues, students and their families

Bricolage is a diverse community, but we are committed to being an anti-racist one. This means devoting time to understand what racism is, exploring how it manifests, and taking actions to dismantle it. Also, Bricolage's diversity is not itself an end. Rather, we believe our diversity is a means to amplifying empathy, advancing equity and facilitating creativity and innovation.

QUALIFICATIONS

Required

• Strong belief in Bricolage Academy’s mission, vision and core values

• Strong belief in and commitment to diverse, equitable, and inclusive educational access and equitable outcomes

• Strong belief in and commitment to the city of New Orleans

• Bachelor’s degree

• Demonstrated success raising student achievement

• Louisiana teaching certificate or working towards it

• At least 3 years of teaching experience

• At least 1 year of middle school (5th-8th grade) STEM (Math or Science) teaching experience

Preferred

• Middle school (5th-8th grade) Science teaching experience

• Familiarity with/experience using the Common Core Standards

• Familiarity with/experience using a scripted curriculum

• Familiarity with/experience with Personalized Learning

• Success as a teacher with a predominantly middle to high income student population and success as a classroom teacher with a predominantly low income population

• Familiarity with/experience using culturally responsive teaching strategies

Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.

Bricolage Academy does not discriminate in employment on the basis of race, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, marital status, sex, gender or gender identity, age, sexual orientation, or any other status protected by applicable federal, state or local law.