Middle School General Education Teacher (Immediate Opening)

About the role

The General Education Teacher (K-12) at KIPP St. Louis drives strong student outcomes through high-quality, standards-aligned instruction. This role is open to teachers across all grade levels and content areas who demonstrate deep content expertise and a commitment to ensuring all students achieve at high levels. Teachers design and deliver rigorous lessons, use data to inform instructional decisions, monitor student progress toward ambitious goals, and contribute to a collaborative team environment through shared planning, reflection, and support for collective improvement.

Responsibilities

• Plan and deliver instruction where all students engage in grade-level standards, texts, and rigorous tasks daily
• Internalize curriculum to ensure alignment to standards, pacing, and high-quality outcomes
• Design and execute tasks that require students to analyze, justify, and apply learning
• Provide scaffolds that increase access without lowering rigor, including modeling, guided practice, and strategic supports
• Anticipate misconceptions and plan targeted supports to ensure all students can access grade-level content
• Design lessons where students do the majority of the thinking, talking, reading, writing, and problem-solving
• Facilitate structured academic discourse that requires students to explain, justify, and build on ideas using academic language
• Use questioning and task design to promote analysis, reasoning, and cognitive lift
• Create opportunities for students to make connections, defend thinking, and engage in meaningful dialogue
• Ensure engagement reflects cognitive work, not just participation or compliance
• Establish and maintain a classroom environment grounded in high expectations, strong routines, and productive struggle
• Implement systems that maximize instructional time and ensure students remain focused, accountable, and independent
• Create a safe and structured environment where students take academic risks and persist through challenging work
• Reinforce consistent expectations for behavior and learning aligned to school-wide systems
• Build strong relationships with students and families to support both academic and cultural outcomes
• Embed frequent checks for understanding into daily instruction to assess student thinking in real time
• Analyze student responses and adjust instruction immediately to address misconceptions and advance learning
• Provide clear, timely, and actionable feedback that enables students to improve their work
• Monitor student progress toward learning goals and ensure students understand success criteria
• Implement data-driven cycles, including reteach and intervention, to accelerate student achievement
• Consistently align to the KIPP St. Louis Instructional Framework in planning, instruction, and reflection
• Actively participate in collaborative planning, data analysis, and professional learning
• Show responsiveness to coaching, with observable growth in instructional practice over time
• Contribute to instructional coherence across classrooms and teams
• Track K-2 DIBELS proficiency and growth in early literacy
• Monitor K-8 i-Ready Reading and Math growth and proficiency
• Oversee 3-8 Missouri Assessment Program (MAP) performance
• Review 9-12 End-of-Course (EOC) exam results in tested subjects
• Review 9-12 AP exam participation, performance, and pass rates (where applicable)
• Demonstrate ability to translate strong Tier 1 instruction into measurable student outcomes

Skills

• Demonstrated ability to drive measurable student achievement and growth
• Strong classroom management and ability to create structured learning environments
• Effective use of data to inform instruction and close learning gaps
• Ability to plan and execute high-quality, standards-aligned lessons
• Proven collaboration with colleagues to improve instructional outcomes
• Strong communication skills with students, families, and staff
• Deep understanding of grade-level standards and content in your subject area
• Knowledge of research-based instructional strategies and best practices
• Expertise in data-driven instruction cycles, including assessment