Working at Empowerment Academy
At many truly excellent schools, even the most committed teachers can feel burned out after a few years.
At Empowerment Academy Charter School, we mesh the high expectations culture and successful classroom management practices of America’s top-performing charter school operators with a proven education program and effective professional development protocols, plus teacher supports that are designed to avoid teacher burnout, so educators can remain charged and enthusiastic throughout an entire career.
If you want to work at a school that will help you professionally develop to your highest potential and help inner-city children achieve to their highest potential, if you love the sense of purpose and accomplishment one receives from this extremely meaningful work –then Empowerment Academy is for you.
School Overview
Empowerment Academy Charter School is among the most ethnically and economically diverse public schools in the State of New Jersey.
It Founders established Empowerment Academy to model how combining a particular set of research-proven Best Practices could lead to:
- OUTSTANDING student learning
- HAPPY scholars and parents
- JOB-ENJOYING teachers
Empowerment Academy’s school model is achieving EVERY ONE of these objectives, proving that urban public schools can be GREAT and that the American dream of an EXCELLENT EDUCATION FOR EVERY CHILD can be realized!
Distinctive elements of the school model include:
- A high-expectations academic culture merged with a caring and fun school climate
- Positive values, habits, character, and community building
- Extensive professional development support for teachers
- A carefully sequenced curriculum aligned with state and common core standards
- Data driven instruction empowered by regular formative assessment
- Instructional groupings by students’ level of standards mastery, not categorizations of ability
- A novel system of class prefects and peer-tutoring
- A sophisticated academic performance monitoring and parental communication system
- Carefully crafted, non-stigmatizing interventions when a student exhibits difficulty mastering a standard – including tutoring in small groups from Language Arts/Literacy and/or Math specialists who serve on staff full-time
- A longer school day with more time for critical learning
- Student Life activities that teach confidence, initiative, and leadership
- An academy system that divides the larger school into smaller schools
- In high school, Advanced Placement, and college-level courses
The school’s founders are seeking to refine their model in a way that will facilitate its adoption by district-operated public schools and spur improvements in public education far beyond Empowerment Academy’s walls.
As an equal opportunity employer, Empowerment Academy hires without consideration to race, religion, creed, color, national origin, age, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, or disability.
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