Bricolage Academy Middle School is searching for a Middle School Math 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 Math Teacher will deliver the Common-Core aligned Illustrative Mathematics Curriculum. Best-practice math strategies, such as those from 5 Practices for Orchestrating Productive Mathematics Discussion, will also be implemented. Additionally, the math teacher will adapt curriculum to ensure that it is culturally relevant.

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 will take four years of Science using the Amplify Curriculum (5th-6th) and IQWST (7th-8th), which invites students to explore phenomena with the purpose of solving authentic problems.

Students can choose their Cocurricular classes and have options of Spanish, Music, Workshop, Physical Education, Theater, 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

• Enrichment projects

• Small group remediation, intervention, or extension

• 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 Math 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 math instruction that includes:

  • math instruction built upon the Bridges in Math or Illustrative Math curriculum which prioritizes conceptual understanding and number sense over algorithmic procedures

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

  • 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

Some other things you should know about us:

We're building a new kind of school that doesn't have a formula to follow. There is no 'how-to' book for our community. We're making it ourselves. That requires people who can embrace vulnerability, take initiative, learn from mistakes, and be open to giving and receiving feedback.

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 middle school (5th-8th grade) STEM (Math or Science) teaching experience

Preferred

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

• Familiarity with/experience using the Common Core Standards

• Familiarity with/experience using a scripted curriculum

• Familiarity with/experience with Personalized Learning

• Deep understanding of Common Core standards for Math, ACT College Readiness Benchmarks, and 21st Century Skills

• 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

People of color are strongly encouraged to apply. 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.