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Job Description
School Information:
Located in Atlanta, GA, Atlanta Heights Charter School opened in 2010 and serves 750+ K-8 students every year. At Atlanta Heights, you can connect passion with purpose.
To learn more about Atlanta Heights Charter School click here.
Why Choose Atlanta Heights Charter School:
- Strong, tenured leadership team with a proven track record.
- Dedicated instructional coaches to provide valuable support to teachers.
- Focused on a collaborative approach to catering to the hearts and minds of all scholars.
- Academically outperforms both the Atlanta Area Schools and the state.
- Recognized and designated as Beating the Odds.
- Achieved 100 Points in Closing the Gap for Elementary and Middle School.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Plans and delivers lessons to promote students’ English language development.
- Collaborates with classroom teachers and specialists to ensure achievement of EL/MLs across content areas through the Sheltered Instruction and the English Language Development program models.
- Administers formative and summative assessments to monitor language progress and ensure student achievement.
- Completes documentation required for compliance with state and federal guidelines.
- Completes daily logs of student services.
- Attends regular Professional Development offerings.
- Be available for afternoon and evening parent-teacher conferences and school events.
- Additional duties as assigned.
Qualifications:
- Candidates for English Language (EL) Teacher positions should preferably hold a valid teaching license and P-12 English to Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) endorsement. Minimally, candidates for this position must be on a waiver to obtain licensure within 3 years and/or an ESOL endorsement within 2 years.
- Demonstrates knowledge of first and second language acquisition theory, second language learning patterns, and best practices in English language development.
- Reflects an awareness and acceptance of cultural differences exhibited by the students and their families.
- Possesses those characteristics necessary for acting as an advocate for multilingual families within the school.
- Read, analyze, and interpret student academic data.
- Demonstrates the ability to effectively communicate with classroom teachers, administration, and families.
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National Heritage Academies is an equal-opportunity employer.



