2025 - 2026 KIPP Durham Middle Refounding Electives Teacher Grades 6-8 starting salary 70K

CRUCIAL COMPETENCIES

Our one refounding Electives Teacher will blow the following four crucial competencies* out of the water:

Driving for Results: Our Electives Teacher will have a strong desire to achieve outstanding student learning results and the taskoriented actions required for success. Our Electives Teacher will set high goals for themselves and their students making persistent wellplanned efforts to achieve these goals despite barriers and resistance; holding others accountable for doing their part to achieve results; and putting in all the extra effort necessary to ensure success. 

Influencing for Results: Our Electives Teacher will motivate othersstudents staff colleagues and familiesand influence their thinking and behavior to obtain outstanding student learning results. Our Electives Teacher will understand that they cannot accomplish change alone but instead must influence the work of others. They will use a variety of influencing movesinspiring students nurturing ridiculously joyful AND rigorous classroom and schoolwide cultures grasping and responding to unspoken student needs and motivations and simultaneously supporting and prodding colleagues to collaborate on the path to schoolwide successas the situation requires. The relationships they will form are for the purpose of influencing others to enhance student learning not just for the purpose of personal bonding. 

ProblemSolving: Our Electives Teacher will be LASER FOCUSED on planning organizing and delivering high quality differentiated instruction AND they will continually analyze data to determine student learning needs and next steps for intervention blocks during the day on select weekend academies and during summers (while running summer academies during select weeks and participating in summer teacher professional development sessions during other select weeks).

Personal Effectiveness: Our Electives Teacher will exhibit flexibility and optimism when faced with stressful uncomfortable and unfamiliar situations; maintain confidence in themselves and a willingness to keep improving despite the many challenges of their role; actively embrace the constant changes needed to ensure student learning in highchallenge situations; and hold and maintain a strong belief in the human potential for learning and improvement despite significant societal pressures to settle for less. Our teachers will see themselves as not just a classroom teacher but a SCHOOLWIDE teacher oriented around solutions and being proactive in their engagements. 

ESSENTIAL DUTIES

Preparing and Delivering Instruction

• Thoroughly review deeply internalize and meticulously prepare art and/or fitness/physical education lessons that follow the states standard courses of study for middle school every single day
• Create engaging and totally engrossing lessons that captivate students and push their thinking in the areas of art and fitness
• Embody the belief that electives teachers are vital classroom teachers that no students day is complete without practicing the mastering of a sport or appreciating fine art
• Practiceand then practice some morelesson delivery to execute daily lesson plans at an exceptionally high level
• Work to learn the students in the roomworking to learn their data and individual needs including those addressed by IEPs multilingual language plans and other individualized plans
• Create exemplar responses and documents for work to hold students accountable and to facilitate collaboration with colleagues
• Set clear high expectations and hold students accountable for performanceall of which requires taking personal responsibility and doing everything required to reach challenging goals
• Embrace and incorporate the gift of feedback from wherever it comescolleagues principal assistant principal regional coaches students whereverin the spirit of Pursuing Excellence one of KIPP NC core values
• Do all the operational things that support great instruction like maintaining an accurate and timely gradebook keeping records and completing tasks for data tracking systems

Building Positive Classroom and Schoolwide Cultures

• Develop positive relationships with students families teachers and staff through regular positive phone calls to families routine curbside checkins with families at arrival and dismissal weekly newsletters from the classroom and attendance at all school events including BacktoSchool Night family conferences report card conferences and all other school celebrations
• Leverage those relationships to induce behaviors and instructional habits from students that are significantly different from those previously exhibited; pinpoint and tap the needs wants and underlying motivations of students
• Participate fully in the daily routines of a school that form the foundation of culture like arrival/dismissal advisory/circle time lunch hallway transitions and the 1000 other moments that make up a day
• Embody nurture and build KIPP NCs core values (Pursuing Excellence Building Knowledge Fighting Injustice Sparking Joy and Rising Together) and the schools student and staff cultures
• Assume personal responsibility for student achievement all the students in the school and the success of staff colleagues
• Create and maintain a joyful classroom space that exudes love builds a sense of belonging and celebrates learning which includes displaying current student work and grade level/content appropriate and identityaffirming decorations

Exemplifying a Growth Mindset

• Collaborate with leaders and coaches to identify areas of strength and areas of growth for professional development throughout the year some of which will be leaderled and some of which will happen in the quiet afterschool moments in classrooms with colleagues in the routine preparation for the next day
• Attend practice clinics to hone and sharpen pedagogical skills and lesson delivery
• Participate in Teacher Work Days Regional Data Days and Professional Development meetings after school; satiate their hunger to learn and grow as a professional

Taking Care of Yourself 

• Use the many benefits the organization offers employees (health benefits generous school holidays etc.) to relieve stress after the workday is done or over school breaks and holidays as the job of turning a school around is toughteachers will experience stress and emotional challenges associated with all the essential duties enumerated above and selfcare will be a priority

Qualifications :

QUALIFICATIONS

The following are required of the KIPP Durham Middle Electives Teacher:

• A deep commitment to the mission of KIPP NC and an unwavering belief in the potential of all our students
• An unwavering commitment to antiracism equity inclusion and liberation
• A deep commitment to both racial equity and improving the lives of kids from economically marginalized communities
• 3 years of teaching experience in K12; experience in teaching in a high performing charter school and/or schools with a high population of students with free and reduced lunch
• Demonstrated success in raising the achievement levels of economically marginalized students
• Valid North Carolina teaching license ability to seek reciprocity or willingness to pursue and attain state certification within the first 6 months of being hired
• A Bachelors degree in a relevant content area
• Pass Criminal Background Check
• Fluency in Spanish is preferred

Additional Information :

Additional Notes

• Hours are MondayFriday 7:30 AM 5:00 PM (these are work hours for teachers not school hours for students)
• Some Saturday/weekend commitments will be required for additional tutoring and intervention work with students
• Durham Middle staff will be expected to help run summer academies in the Summers ofand 2027

Total Benefits

All KIPP Durham Middle teachers will be paid on the KIPP Durham 202425 Compensation Model (linked to model) and paid according to their years of relevant experience and educational attainment.

In addition the KIPP Durham Middle Electives Teacher will receive:

• A $25000 salary boost to recognize their investment in KIPP Durham Middles refounding
• Opportunity to earn supplements for a relevant PhD additional licensure endorsements National Board Certification and teaching in high needs areas (these supplements are in perpetuity and in addition to base salary)
• Health Insurance: State Health Plan with low premiums for individuals and deep discounts for spouses dependents and families
• Paid Parental Leave: 8 weeks of 100% paid maternity leave and 4 weeks of 100% paid paternity leave
• Paid Time Off Sick Leave: 5 days of PTO and 6 sick days every year
• Retirement: An optional 403b with a generous employer match with immediate vesting
• Relocation Assistance: If you need to move 200 miles or more to the Triangle to take this opportunity KIPP North Carolina will provide you with up to $5000 to support your moving expenses. This will be determined based on the distance of your move.

Important Note: This incredible opportunity to magnetize a Dream Team staff to Durham Middle starting in the 202425 school year is made possible by the national KIPP Foundation. Their commitment to KIPP NC is for three school years 26 and 202627). After those three years we will reassess our approach and resource allocation model. We are asking all successful candidates in this role to commit to the entirety of those three years (with a TBD for 202728 and beyond!). 

*We are forever indebted to Public Impact a North Carolinabased nonprofit organization dedicated to an excellent education for all students and excellent careers for all educators through its national Opportunity Culture initiative for this language and framework. 

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Fulltime