2026-27 4th Grade Composition Teacher

brillapubliccharterschools; New York (NY); On-site; USD 65,000 - 85,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Professional development

Community and culture

Health coverage

Job summary

Brilla Schools in the Bronx is seeking an Elementary Literacy teacher for a K-8 program. You will deliver a rigorous literacy block, use close reading, writing, phonics, and literacy interventions to ensure student growth and mastery of grade-level standards.

You will collaborate with literacy peers, engage families, participate in ongoing professional development, and uphold Brilla’s mission to foster wisdom and virtue in a joyful, data-informed learning environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree or higher from an accredited institution.
• Excellent spoken and written communication skills.
• Current elementary teaching certification (preferred).
• Special Education credential and experience (highly preferred).
• Spanish language proficiency (preferred).

Responsibilities

• Understand, plan, and execute elements of innovative pedagogy with data-driven decisions.
• Establish a structured and welcoming classroom culture.
• Model courage, justice, wisdom, and self-control while addressing challenges.
• Manage multiple tasks while inspiring scholars to achieve.
• Build meaningful relationships with students, families, and colleagues.

Skills

Spanish language proficiency

Excellent communication

Education

Bachelor's Degree or higher

Elementary teaching certification

Special Education credential (preferred)

Job description

About Us

Brilla Schools, a growing K-8 network in the Bronx, serves over 2,000 students with plans to expand to educate 3,000 across four elementary and four middle schools. Managed by Seton Education Partners, Brilla Schools are dedicated to forming students of strong wisdom and virtue. Our classically inspired approach to education combines a content-rich curriculum, inquiry-driven learning, and a focus on virtues, while providing individualized support to meet each child's unique needs. A national leader in character education and supporting students with varying needs, over the past two years, Brilla alumni have secured spots in the most prestigious high schools in the tri-state area, earning over $3 million in scholarships and financial aid. Our staff are mission-aligned change-makers who believe in fostering a joyful, rigorous learning environment, and Brilla offers some of the most competitive salaries in the market to honor their dedication. With high expectations and a supportive community, we're preparing students to excel in high school, college, and beyond.

Position Overview

All Brilla teachers share a relentless belief and focus that scholars can and will achieve excellent academic outcomes and a robust character education. The key responsibilities and drivers to achieving outcomes for students include:

• Understanding, planning, and executing key elements of innovative pedagogy and data-based decision-making through a deep love of learning
• Establishing and maintaining a highly structured and welcoming classroom culture where scholars are supported in developing their own internalization and mastery of virtue
• Provide a model of courage, justice, wisdom, and self-control, while championing a positive, flexible attitude and solution-based approach to challenges aiming to challenge the status quo of the current educational landscape in underserved communities
• A desire to accept, implement, and seek feedback, and a proven ability to manage multiple concurrent tasks and responsibilities while inspiring outstanding achievement in scholars
• Develop meaningful relationships with students, families and colleagues that inspire Scholars to love learning and achieve exceptional academic success

Core Competencies & Responsibilities

Brilla's Elementary School Literacy teachers are content experts who foster Literacy environments in the Close Reading, Writing, Phonics and Literacy Interventions blocks and mindsets where all scholars have access to grade level standards and demonstrate high levels of growth and achievement. The habits and practices that allow teachers' to drive outcomes include, but are not limited to:

• Participating in ongoing professional development, including formal and informal observation and coaching cycles and daily intellectual prep meetings
• Implementing looking at student work protocols, and data analysis practices and urgently responding to student data
• Establishing and communicating standards and content-based objectives and regularly evaluating student progress toward mastery
• Internalizing the provided curriculum, and teach rigorous, classically-inspired lessons that adhere with Brilla's ambitious student growth targets across one grade level of students (2-4)
• Collaborating vertically with Literacy content teachers, and laterally with grade-level teachers
• Partnering with families to nurture a home to school connection that fosters shared accountability for scholars' outcomes
• Perform Other Duties as Assigned

Qualifications

An unwavering, confident, and enthusiastic commitment to the educational mission of the Brilla Schools Network in service to the school community

A relentless dedication to providing all students with an academically robust, inspiring, and joyful learning experience

Bachelor's Degree or higher from an accredited institution

Excellent spoken and written communication skills

Possession of current teaching certification as an elementary school teacher (preferred)

Relevant urban, elementary teaching experience with demonstrated student results (preferred)

Special Education credential and experience (highly preferred)

Spanish language proficiency (preferred)

Benefits

• Comprehensive Professional Development : More than 225 hours annually, featuring two weeks of onboarding, coaching, and targeted training sessions to ensure staff excel in their roles and flourish.
• Community and Culture : An intentionally joyful workplace with over 30 bonding events each year, fostering connection and collaboration among staff and families in the Bronx.
• Flexible Health Coverage : A full suite of medica