Position Title: ML Teacher 

Department: ML 

Reports to: ML Coordinator 

Supervises: None

Organization Overview: 

The Neighborhood Charter Network (NCN) is a grassroots organization that launched in 2016 in order to manage a growing family of schools in Indianapolis, IN. The mission of The Neighborhood Charter Network is to expand educational equity to the communities we serve. 

Job Summary:

NCN schools use a sheltered English immersion program to support students identified as multilingual learners (MLs). Our ML teachers are critical to the model, both in terms of direct student services and teacher support. You can find our ML teachers providing instructional support to small-groups of students both inside and outside of the classroom as well as co-teaching with a content teacher, whichever is deemed most appropriate to support that particular group of students. They can also be found collaboratively planning alongside content teachers, providing scaffolding recommendations for ML students or providing professional development related to ML best practices. Our work is grounded in data, so our ML teachers also review student data regularly to figure out what’s working and what’s not yet in order to provide the most effective support possible. Each student is unique, and our ML teachers continuously find ways to ensure they help all our students learn.  

Essential Job Responsibilities:

1. Instructs individual ML students or small groups for the purpose of reinforcing and/or achieving their academic goals and grade-level expectations in one or more content areas
2. Plans for and provides direct instruction of identified multilingual learners (ML) students on a daily to weekly basis that align to specific group goals and individual learning outcomes
3. Monitors ML students goals and tracks students progress through the use of data systems and progress monitoring tools
4. Uses ongoing instructional and standardized assessment data to drive planning and instruction
5. Attends MTSS meetings as requested and provides updates with students progress toward goals, manages students goals, and provides adequate recommendations for suggested research-based interventions
6. Implements instructional programs for the purpose of assisting classroom teachers in improving student’s academic success through a defined course of study
7. Implements behavior and procedural expectations for small groups that aligns to school-wide expectations
8. Supports teacher development focused on ML best practices
9. Assists with administering statewide and school diagnostic testing
10. Supports ML coordinator with clerical tasks to ensure program compliance 
11. Values and utilizes feedback from coach/ML Coordinator to inform instruction
12. Collaborates with grade-level teams, special education team, and ML Coordinator to modify students work and address students’ individual learning needs

Minimum Required Qualifications:

• Has a passion for working in Indianapolis and working at Enlace Academy
• Has demonstrated proficiency with using data to drive instructional results
• Has a dedication to helping children grow and learn
• Valid Indiana Teacher Certification
• Experience with working with multilingual learners

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bilingual: English/Spanish or English/Haitian Creole

NCN Core Values:

NCN Equity Statement:

The Neighborhood Charter Network is an equal employment opportunity school corporation which strives to deliver educational excellence, equitable access, and quality service to our students and families. NCN recognizes the educational and social value of human differences and their various forms. NCN is committed to an inclusive approach which affirms and embraces all aspects of diversity. We are strengthened by our unique knowledge, experiences, interests, hopes, challenges, cultures, traditions and families. We engage families as partners in education through trusting relationships built on culturally responsive two-way communication and mutual respect.

Recognizing our diversity, we are committed to equity in all of our work. We seek to allocate resources to eliminate discrimination and disparities. We strive to eliminate prejudice, bigotry, and intolerance and bridge gaps between and among our diverse students, families, staff and communities.

Our approach to diversity and commitment to fairness ensure that the students we serve are empowered to succeed in high school, college and beyond.

Key Details:  

This job description is not intended to be all inclusive. The employee will perform other reasonably related tasks as assigned by the supervisor or other management personnel. 

NCN reserves the right to change job responsibilities, duties and hours accordingly. This document is for management communication only and is not intended to imply a written or implied contract of employment. 

Neighborhood Charter Network provides equal opportunities of employment to all applicants and and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type against anyone without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.