Immediate Multilingual Teacher

About the Organization

Noble is Chicago’s highest-performing and largest network of public charter schools. Our 17 campuses and 1,680 employees currently serve 12,000 students, 99% of whom identify as persons of color, 90% of whom are from under-resourced communities, and 81% of whom are first-generation college attendees. Noble’s mission is to ensure that all students have equitable and positive school experiences that equip them to complete college and lead choice-filled lives. We support more than 31,000 alumni, with 99% of Noble students accepted into college and historically almost 90% choosing to enroll.

Culture Principles

• Clear, Setting Clear Expectations: Students flourish with a clear understanding of boundaries and expectations. Staff prepare and explain academic and behavioral expectations using easy-to-understand procedures and routines.
• Consistent, Maintaining Consistency in Responses: Consistency in addressing behaviors ensures fairness and provides students with security, fostering a sense of justice and equity.
• Connected, Building Positive Relationships: Students thrive when they feel a communal connection to their school and can rely on meaningful relationships with adults.

Responsibilities

• Administer and oversee EL program compliance to meet all federal, state, and network requirements for multilingual learners.
• Ensure sheltered instruction (including appropriate accommodations) is provided in all learning settings.
• Serve as the school’s Screener, ACCESS, and Lexile/Quantile Test Coordinator for multilingual (ML) students.
• Maintain ML physical and digital records.
• Progress monitor ML student academic and promotion data.
• Teach ESL or Sheltered Instruction Content courses and support content-aligned language development for ML students.
• Support a caseload of ML students through direct instruction and schoolwide integration of ML instructional practices.
• Design lessons aligned to grade-level standards and student language proficiency data.
• Collaborate with content teachers to embed language development strategies and modifications into general education instruction.
• Build staff knowledge and skills to support ML students across all classrooms.
• Manage Language Specialists (ESL Teachers) to meet key job responsibilities.
• Teach and advise an advisory, typically meeting daily, serving as the primary point of contact for families. Advisory provides time for students to assess progress toward promotion, foster relationships, and build community.

Qualifications

Ideal Qualifications

• An unwavering belief that all students can succeed in high school, college, and lead exemplary lives.
• Proven track record of results in previous roles.
• Self-awareness, a regular practice of reflection, and a desire to continuously improve.
• Mastery of and enthusiasm for supporting Multilingual learners.
• Proven commitment to serving students of color and contributing to anti-racism in practice and disposition.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree (required).
• Eligibility to work in the United States on a full-time basis.
• Active Illinois Teaching License (PEL) with an ESL endorsement.

Benefits

We strive to be the best place to work. We offer a predictable salary schedule for teachers, and our employee benefits are thoughtfully designed to support this ambition. For professionals who do not currently hold an in-use teaching license, the Noble Licensure Program provides robust programs and financial benefits for teachers to obtain licensure while teaching at Noble.

Pay

Compensation range is $60,000–$81,000.