Job Description:

✨Join a group of passionate advocates on our mission to improve the lives of youth!  Rite of Passage Team is hiring for a English Teacher at Southwest Leadership Academy in Phoenix, Arizona ✨  

Southwest Leadership Academy is a school students can call “home”: a school where a rigorous, relevant curriculum and a relational instruction approach are essential to high academic achievement. Students will experience success, complete their high school studies and launch into the 21st century world of higher education and employment.

Paid Summers!
2025-2026 10-month contract
 
Pay: Salary Position
  
Perks & Benefits: Medical, Dental, Vision and company paid Life Insurance within 90 days, and 401k match of up to 6% after 1 year of employment, Paid Time Off that can be used as soon as it accrues and more! ROP-benefits-and-perks-2  

What you will do:
The Teacher is a member of the Education Department. Primarily responsible for designing and delivering engaging lessons, instructing students in a variety of literary genres, guiding students through the writing process, incorporating diverse texts and perspectives, using formative and summative assessments, integrating technology and multimedia tools, collaborating with colleagues, communicating regularly with parents and guardians, participating in professional development and maintaining a positive, respectful and safe classroom environment.  Teachers report to the Administrators and/or Principal 

To be considered you should:

Possesses a current and valid State teaching credential in English, Math, Science and/or Special Education.
Have related experience working with at-risk youth
Have three or more years of successful classroom teaching
Possess a knowledge of:
Instructional strategies and how they can be employed to deliver curriculum and assess student learning. 
Various methodologies and research related to learning and working with at-risk, high school aged youth. 
Effective classroom management techniques and behavioral management styles that result in understanding of how to manage and teach to various learning styles. 
Effective communication techniques that enable positive and productive collaboration with site staff. 
Technology and how it can be used as an educational tool.
Have the ability to:
Establish a teaching rapport with students which results in student achievement in all program areas. 
Diagnose, prescribe and evaluate student progress on an ongoing basis. 
Collaborate with staff to deliver a consistent curriculum and implement a team approach to working with students. 
Confront inappropriate behavior appropriately and take the necessary action as outlined in the program procedures. 
Accept additional tasks as assigned including flexible work schedule and extracurricular assignments.
Be able to pass a criminal background clearance check, drug screen, physical and TB test.
Schedule:

After 40 years of improving the lives of youth, we are looking for passionate advocates to continue the legacy of helping young people become successful adults. As a Math Teacher, you will have the unique opportunity to create a positive, safe and supportive environment for the youth we serve while building a career rich in growth opportunities and self-fulfillment. 

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