Social Studies Teacher Leader, Grades 5–8

Hackensack Public Schools; Hackensack (NJ); Sur place; USD 80 000 - 83 000; Temps partiel

Résumé du poste

Hackensack Public Schools seeks a Teacher Leader for Social Studies (Grades 5–8) to support the 5–8 Social Studies Department at Hackensack Middle School. The role centers on data conversations, PLC facilitation, and district MTSS collaboration to strengthen instructional practices.

Responsibilities include planning, facilitating grade-level meetings, and coordinating professional learning with guidance from the Director of Curriculum and Instruction.

Qualifications

• 1. Currently employed as a teacher in Hackensack Public Schools and holds a valid New Jersey instructional certificate appropriate to the assigned position.
• 2. Demonstrates strong knowledge of district curriculum, New Jersey Student Learning Standards, and evidence-based instructional practices within the grade span or department served.
• 3. Demonstrates a strong understanding of standards-aligned formative and summative assessment practices, including selecting and using varied assessment approaches to identify student strengths and learning needs, monitor progress, and inform instruction.
• 4. Demonstrates the ability to analyze and interpret student achievement and growth data, assessment results, and student work and guide colleagues in translating findings into clear instructional next steps.
• 5. Demonstrates a strong understanding of Tier 1 core instruction, Tier 2 targeted supplemental intervention, and Tier 3 intensive, individualized intervention within a MTSS framework, including screening and progress monitoring.
• 6. Demonstrates knowledge of differentiated instruction and practices that support access to grade-level learning for diverse learners, including multilingual learners and students with disabilities.
• 7. Demonstrates strong communication and collaboration skills and the ability to build trusting professional relationships.
• 8. Demonstrates the ability to facilitate collaborative conversations, invite participation, navigate differing perspectives constructively, and guide teams toward agreed instructional next steps using district protocols.
• 9. Has experience contributing to or facilitating Professional Learning Communities, collaborative planning, professional learning, or other shared instructional work.
• 10. Demonstrates a commitment to continued professional growth and willingness to participate in district-provided learning related to facilitation, assessment, instructional practices, and MTSS procedures.
• 11. Maintains confidentiality, exercises sound professional judgment, and demonstrates the ability to organize collaborative work, meet established timelines and documentation requirements, and follow through on agreed commitments.

Responsabilités

• Priorities and schedules will be established collaboratively with the designated director or supervisor and building-based leadership, with planning and preparation aligned to the 60-hour allocation.
• Collaborate with the designated director or supervisor, principals, and assistant principals to coordinate teacher leadership activities aligned with district initiatives, school improvement goals, and identified professional learning needs.
• Plan and facilitate grade-level meetings for K–4 assignments and PLCs and department meetings for grades 5–12 content-area assignments; facilitate collaborative meetings for staff as established.
• Lead structured data conversations using district-established protocols and schedules, inviting colleagues to contribute their expertise and perspectives. Provide feedback to instructional leadership to support refinement of these protocols.
• Guide collaborative analysis of student achievement and growth data, standards-aligned formative and summative assessments, universal screening results, and student work to recognize strengths, identify learning needs, and determine instructional next steps.
• Help teams document agreed instructional actions, identify responsibility for follow-through, and establish review dates; revisit student learning evidence with colleagues to assess impact of decisions.
• Facilitate collaborative planning and sustained professional learning that connect district curriculum and New Jersey Student Learning Standards with evidence-based instructional practices, differentiated instruction, and varied assessment approaches.
• Support MTSS practices through professional learning and collaborative understanding of Tier 1, Tier 2, and Tier 3 interventions.
• Collaborate with Reading Specialists, interventionists, multilingual educators, special education staff, and others to support shared understanding of screening, diagnostic assessment, progress monitoring, and response to instruction.
• Promote collaborative instructional practices that support access to grade-level learning for diverse learners, including multilingual learners and students with disabilities.
• Prepare agendas, protocols, and professional materials; share instructional resources and collaborate on lessons, activities, and assessments.
• Gather educator feedback and communicate emerging professional learning needs to the director or supervisor and building leadership; coordinate with other Teacher Leaders for cross-building connections.
• Participate in required orientation, professional learning, and meetings to support coordination of work.
• Maintain accurate time records and documentation in accordance with district expectations; build positive relationships and uphold confidentiality; Teacher Leaders do not evaluate staff.

Connaissances

Data analysis

Collaboration

Professional learning

MTSS knowledge

Data conversations

Formation

NJ instructional certificate

Description du poste

Hackensack Public Schools seeks a Teacher Leader for Social Studies (Grades 5–8) to support the 5–8 Social Studies Department at Hackensack Middle School. The role centers on data conversations, PLC facilitation, and district MTSS collaboration to strengthen instructional practices.

Responsibilities include planning, facilitating grade-level meetings, and coordinating professional learning with guidance from the Director of Curriculum and Instruction.