Middle School English Language Arts Teacher, LSD (Louisiana School for the Deaf)

About the role

The Louisiana Special Schools are experiencing a critical shortage of certified teachers, school counselors, interpreters and educators of the Deaf or hard of hearing and Visually Impaired. This position is currently located in the Middle and High School but is anticipated to change to Middle School.

Responsibilities

• Plan rigorous lessons aligned to the college and career ready bar.
• Utilize curriculum assessments at the daily, weekly, and unit level to measure what your students learned.
• Create and leverage a classroom narrative along with the school system of positive behavior support and positive discipline to build strong and positive student identities.
• Ensure regular communication every month with families so they also know you are invested in their child.
• Execute the lessons you’ve planned with fidelity and at the highest level, ensuring 100% of your students are engaged in your lesson and doing rigorous thinking at every moment.
• Teach 2+ years of teaching experience, preferably working with students from similar backgrounds to LSD students.
• Certification in deaf education preferred.
• Sign Language Proficiency-Advanced level, preferred (2 years to achieve).

Requirements

• Deep belief that all students, regardless of their backgrounds and educational pasts, have the potential to succeed in college, career, and beyond, and that it is the responsibility of schools to help students realize that potential.
• Louisiana teaching certificate.
• Desire to work at a college and career prep school rebuilding education for deaf and/or hard of hearing students.
• Desire to grow as a teacher and face the challenges that come with deep reflection and direct feedback on your classroom practices.
• Positive attitude and strong work ethic.
• Ability to constantly find joy in the successes and challenges of our work.
• Ability to demonstrate that joy towards students, families, and teammates.
• Personal initiative to better yourself and those around you.
• Drive to actively pursue excellence in everything you do, even when not given direct coaching.
• Strong knowledge in content area of choice, demonstrated through lesson planning, execution, and intervention with all students.
• Strong desire to participate in all school activities, including extracurricular activities, clubs, sports, school health and wellness activities, and other activities and events that promote school identity and culture.

Qualifications

• Knowledge of the Louisiana State Standards, the ACT College Readiness Standards, and the school’s internal curriculum.
• Experience in creating and leveraging a classroom narrative along with the school system of positive behavior support and positive discipline.
• Experience in building strong and positive student identities.
• Experience in incorporating best practices received in trainings on social and emotional learning for students.
• Experience in regular communication every month with families.
• Experience in executing the lessons you’ve planned with fidelity and at the highest level, ensuring 100% of your students are engaged in your lesson and doing rigorous thinking at every moment.
• Experience in gathering data throughout your lesson to ensure students at all levels in your classroom are mastering the material.
• Experience in reflecting on your data daily to know what your students learned and what they didn’t learn.
• Experience in filling in those gaps the following day and retesting later on.
• Experience in interventions and supports to meet the needs of all students.

Skills

• Strong knowledge in content area of choice.
• Ability to execute lessons with fidelity and at the highest level.
• Ability to gather data throughout the lesson cycle.
• Ability to reflect on data daily.
• Ability to intervene and support all students.

Benefits

• Opportunity to increase responsibility and impact within a school and across the state.
• Opportunity to lead and create pathways for success for every student.
• Opportunity to work in a school that values and recognizes the diverse language learning styles of its students.
• Opportunity to use advances in audiological and educational technology.
• Opportunity to work in a school that promotes teachers who are experts/specialists in language and literacy instruction.
• Opportunity to work in a school that reflects on students' progress.
• Opportunity to work in a school that supports and advocates for innovation, expansion of curricular and dormitory residency programs, and over-all school improvement.
• Opportunity to work in a school that collaborates with core stakeholders.

Pay

This is a full time 9 month and 7.5 hours per day position. To be filled for the 2025-2026 school year.

Schedule

This is a full time 9 month and 7.5 hours per day position. To be filled for the 2025-2026 school year.