Position Type: Full Time
Date Posted: May 28, 2026
Location: 17-19 Crawford St, Newark, NJ 07102
Closing Date: July 31, 2026
Salary Range: $69,500 - $90,000
Benefits
- Robust medical, dental, and vision insurance plans w/ comprehensive network coverage.
- Up to $5,250 per year in tax exempt student loan and tuition reimbursement.
- Reimbursements for external professional development aligned to your role.
- Wellness reimbursements including gym memberships, spa services, and more.
- Online counseling services - for staff and their dependents - via top-rated therapy app.
- Pre-tax state pension plan benefit w/ addl. options available via voluntary retirement plans.
- Pre-tax dependent care, health, and transit flexible spending plans available.
- Convenient health screening and telemedicine support via VitalCheck Wellness platform.
Job Description
- ROLE OVERVIEW:
- Great Oaks Legacy Charter School is seeking dynamic, mission-aligned educators to join our team as High School Teachers to teach 9th-12th Grade for the 2026 - 27 academic year.
- (All Contents+Special Education)
- REPORTING RELATIONSHIP:
- Our High School Teachers are an integral part of our school-based instructional team and report to the School Director(s), with regular coaching and support from our instructional coaches and Academic Deans
- ESSENTIAL DUTIES &
Responsibilities
- Teachers at Great Oaks Legacy Charter School are responsible for preparing each of our students for college success through rigorous instruction and maintaining consistently high expectations
- Teachers are models of the hard work, desire for learning, and character that we expect of our students
- Our teachers' essential duties and
Responsibilities
- include:
- 1) Curriculum & Instruction
- Demonstrating solid knowledge and understanding of the content matter
- Establishing, communicating, and demanding high expectations for student learning, and quality of work
- Using a multitude of instructional strategies and activities that are academically rigorous and highly engaging
- Executing detailed lesson plans mapped to a year-long academic plan to address learning needs
- Constantly working to respond to the students’ learning needs
- Consistently sending the message that this work is important, that the student can do it, and that you will not give up on a student.
- 2) Data
- Track and analyze student data to identify student learning needs and set ambitious, attainable goals for student progress
- Planning and implementing strategies to achieve targets related to student learning outcomes
- Working collaboratively with the School Director and other teachers to develop and revise curriculum based on assessment data.
- 3) Classroom Environment
- Building relationships with students that demonstrate an open concern and a sense of responsibility for students’ academic and personal growth
- Maintaining an efficient, respectful and positive tone in your classroom
- Utilizing time to maximize student learning and communicating a constant, tangible sense of urgency
- Ensuring that all students are on task at all times during a lesson
- Clearly enforcing and emphasizing school rules, values and expectations
- Supervising students during lunch and transition periods.
- 4) Additional
Responsibilities
- Utilizing your skills, talents, and effort to contribute to student and school success
- Independently assuming additional
Responsibilities
- when necessary and demonstrating leadership
- Making frequent phone calls, keeping parents informed of successes and struggles
- Maintaining an orderly school culture
- Attending professional development sessions
- Other duties that may be necessary to fulfill the mission of the school.