Introduction
As a pioneer in the Charter school movement, CSUSA is one of the fastest-growing education management organizations in the United States, providing a wide variety of educational choices to over 82,000 students in more than 150 schools across Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Louisiana. Charter Schools USA is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Overview
Charter Schools USA, CSUSA, is one of the largest and highest performing education management organizations in the United States, serving more than 82,000 students across 150 schools in four states. Since 1997, we have pursued a Relentless Commitment to Scholar Greatness in school and in life. Through the CSUSA Classical model, we provide an academically rigorous virtue-rich classical education that forms scholars in knowledge, sound moral character, and the habits of learning. We prepare scholars to seek truth, practice virtue, and lead lives of purpose. We believe in Strong Minds Good Hearts.
Job Purpose
As a Classical Grammar Faculty Scholar, you will form young scholars in the grammar of learning, the foundational knowledge, habits, and virtues that support lifelong wisdom and eloquence. In the CSUSA Classical model, we refer to our teachers as Faculty Scholars to reflect the high expectations for content expertise, exemplary practice, and lifelong learning. As a Grammar Faculty Scholar, you will teach with clarity, order, beauty, and joyful rigor using classical methods such as explicit instruction, imitation, recitation, narration, copywork, dictation, and carefully guided discussion. You will model intellectual curiosity and upright character while you cultivate both academic mastery and moral imagination, so that each scholar develops a strong mind and a good heart and can flourish in the next stages of the Trivium and beyond.
Instructional Planning
• Lesson Development: Create lesson plans that align with established guidelines, reflect the principles of classical education, and intentionally weave in the Beacons of Virtue, prudence, fortitude, temperance, and justice. • Activity Planning: Design individual and group learning activities that meet instructional objectives, address scholars diverse needs, and foster both intellectual growth and virtuous habits. • Preparation for Classes: Prepare thoroughly for assigned classes, demonstrating clear evidence of preparation upon request from supervisory personnel, and planning lessons that call scholars to think deeply and act with integrity.
Collaborative Planning
Participate in collaborative curriculum planning with staff during designated meetings, integrating insights from the CSUSA Classical model and embedding shared expectations for cultivating moral character and civic virtue.
IEP Incorporation
Incorporate all necessary diagnostic information required in scholars Individual Education Plans (IEPs) into instructional planning, so that each scholar receives just prudent and dignified support.
Resource Protection
Take necessary precautions to protect supplies, equipment, materials, and facilities essential for implementing the planned instructional program, modeling stewardship, temperance, and respect for the learning environment.
School Community Relations
• Cooperative Relations: Establish cooperative relationships and communicate effectively with parents and guardians, partnering with them to support scholars growth in knowledge, prudence, fortitude, temperance, and justice. • Positive Communication: Maintain clear, consistent, and positive communication with parents through various mediums and work closely with administration and staff to present a united virtue-centered message. • Confidentiality Maintenance: Uphold confidentiality regarding scholar records and participate actively in parent communication initiatives, demonstrating integrity, discretion, and respect.
Extracurricular Participation
Engage in extracurricular activities to support a positive school culture, strengthen community among scholars and staff, and create additional opportunities to model and cultivate the Beacons of Virtue.
Responsibilities
• Program Implementation: Plan and implement a classical course of instruction that aligns with CSUSAs educational philosophy and the goals of the Classical Educational Model, securing a strong foundation in the Trivium, Grammar, Logic, Rhetoric, while explicitly cultivating prudence, fortitude, temperance, and justice in every unit. • Effective Lesson Planning: Develop purposeful lesson plans that incorporate effective classical teaching strategies, maximize learning time, and provide real-world application-based examples that resonate with scholars and call them to practice the Beacons of Virtue in thought and action. • Scholar Engagement: Present subject matter in ways that maximize learning opportunities, inviting scholars to engage deeply with content, exercise careful thinking, and respond with prudence, fortitude, temperance, and justice in discussion and conduct.
Job Requirements
• Bachelors degree required; degree in education, literature, history, classics, or a related field preferred. • Educator Certification in alignment with state requirements. • Willingness to learn and demonstrate understanding of classical education, including the Trivium and Grammar-stage pedagogy, and how these support the CSUSA Classical model. • Skill in explicit instruction, phonics, grammar, composition, math mastery, and structured practice that forms scholars habits of mind and work. • Strong classroom management rooted in habit training, clarity, consistency, and the cultivation of prudence, fortitude, temperance, and justice. • Excellent written and oral communication and a warm professional partnership with families in support of forming Strong Minds Good Hearts.
Work Environment
While performing the responsibilities of this position, the work environment characteristics listed below are representative of what the Classical Grammar Faculty Scholar will encounter:
• Usual school working conditions within a virtue-rich scholar-centered CSUSA Classical campus. • Periods of higher noise and activity during times of high scholar traffic and transitions as scholars move purposefully through a lively, engaging learning environment. • Physical demands: • Frequent movement within the classroom and school campus to monitor scholar engagement, facilitate discussions, and maintain a safe, orderly environment. • Ability to stand for extended periods during instruction, presentations, and classroom activities. • Occasional lifting or moving of instructional materials and classroom equipment, up to 20 pounds. • Regular interaction with scholars in dynamic settings requiring alertness and responsiveness to maintain a conducive learning environment. • Periods of increased activity and noise during transitions, collaborative learning, and school events.
FLSA Overtime Category
Job is exempt from the overtime provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act.