High School Lead Teacher - Greater Boston (2025-2026)

Kipp Inc; Massachusetts; On-site; USD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking educational organization dedicated to empowering students from underserved communities. As a Lead Teacher, you will play a vital role in shaping the academic and character development of students, ensuring they are affirmed, valued, and challenged every day. This position offers the opportunity to create a rigorous and inclusive learning environment, collaborate with families, and engage in professional development. If you are passionate about education and committed to fostering student growth and achievement, this role is perfect for you. Shape the future of education and make a lasting impact in the lives of students.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree required and commitment to anti-racism and equity.
• Ability to analyze data and modify lessons for student growth.

Responsibilities

• Create a positive learning environment and prepare engaging lessons.
• Analyze student work to inform instructional practices.

Skills

Classroom Management

Data Analysis

Lesson Planning

Effective Communication

Emotional Intelligence

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

Curricula Resources

Office Equipment

Job description

High School Lead Teacher - Greater Boston (2025-2026)

• Full-time
• Start Date: Next year opening
• Department: Teacher

Our Mission

The mission of all of KIPP Massachusetts schools is to create an environment where students develop the academic skills, intellectual habits and character traits necessary to maximize their potential in high school, college and the world beyond. Our program is based on:

• A focus on high-quality instruction supported by rigorous professional development to ensure that our students develop the academic skills necessary to pursue the life they choose.
• A high regard for character development to ensure that our students and staff celebrate and develop their character and identity strengths.
• An emphasis on family engagement, because we believe that our students are most likely to be able to maximize their potential when we work in partnership with our students and their families.
• A focus on college readiness for all students so that all students can make choices about their post-secondary education and future.

What We Do

We seek to provide a world-class education for students from educationally underserved communities in Lynn and Boston. Our student demographics mirror those of neighborhood schools in terms of race, socioeconomic status, English Language Learners, and students who receive special education services.

Lead Teacher at KIPP Academy Lynn Collegiate

KIPP Academy Lynn Charter School is looking for talented, committed, and culturally competent lead teachers who have the power to amplify our children’s potential by creating a school experience that affirms, values, and challenges students each day. This role requires consistent and reliable demonstration of the following essential job functions and key responsibilities:

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Classroom Responsibilities

• Ensure that all children are affirmed, valued, and challenged every day.
• Foster a positive and safe learning environment.
• Prepare and internalize rigorous and engaging unit and daily lessons, leveraging provided curricula/resources and intellectual preparation tools.
• When applicable, may be asked to create and internalize academically aligned lesson plans, unit plans, rubrics, and assessments.
• Set specific, ambitious growth goals with all students and identify and leverage all necessary resources to ensure they meet them.
• Implement aligned school-wide or grade-level student culture systems and proactive classroom management strategies.
• Regularly analyze student work and academic data to modify lessons, refine curricula, and inform instructional practice.
• Maintain accurate, up-to-date student grades/records and initiate strong lines of communication with students and their families regularly regarding students’ growth and progress.

School and Professional Responsibilities

• Participate in school-wide and individual professional development, including pre-service training over the summer and weekly during the academic year.
• Take ownership for the development of your craft seeking and implementing feedback from your coach and collaborating with teammates within and beyond school-designed structures.
• Perform assigned duties including (but not limited to) classroom coverage, bus, lunch, transition, and dismissal duties.
• Develop strong relationships with families through participation in school events and consistent phone calls, texts, and/or emails with caregivers.
• Be willing to offer support and receive constructive feedback from colleagues.
• Collaborate with grade level and content teams to tackle common challenges and implement grade-wide systems.
• Dependable attendance according to our school calendar, initiating proactive communication when attendance barriers arise.

General Requirements and Responsibilities

• Embody KIPP MA’s Code of Conduct by acting with integrity, leading with humanity, centering self-awareness and critical consciousness, taking personal responsibility, and engaging productively.
• Participate and engage in regional professional development and community events as required.
• Demonstrated ability to collect and interpret data, evaluate, reason, define problems, establish facts, draw valid conclusions, and make reasonable judgments and decisions in a timely manner in accordance with the needs of the school.
• Self-awareness, flexibility and emotional intelligence to navigate a setting with students who express diverse needs.
• Effective communication skills to perform assigned duties and to meaningfully exchange information with students, staff, families and others.
• Physical mobility to execute duties effectively, which may include kneeling, walking, pushing/pulling, squatting, twisting, turning, bending, stooping and reaching overhead.
• Physical strength sufficient to periodically lift and/or carry 20 pounds of materials or supplies and to physically restrain a student to keep from harming themself and/or others in an emergency situation.
• Manual dexterity sufficient to perform repetitive hand/wrist/arm motions and to operate a computer and office equipment.

KIPP MA teachers are supported in their demanding work by experienced and dedicated leadership and staff who have themselves proven successful in the teaching role.

In addition to the responsibilities listed above, there will occasionally be other duties as assigned that teachers will engage in to help promote a positive and calm learning environment and culture.

• Love and unwavering belief in the high potential of all students.

Commitment to anti-racism and equity.

Demonstrated ability to drive student growth and achievement and to create a warm, inclusive, rigorous learning environment.

Passion for subject/content area and demonstrated commitment to professional learning.

Bachelor’s Degree required.

Pass Criminal Background Check.

KIPP MA is an Equal Opportunity Employer.