SY22-23 High School of Commerce Guidance Counselor

Springfield Public Schools   Springfield, MA   Full-time
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Location: High School of Commerce, Springfield, MA

Grade Level: 9-12

Full Time Start Date: August 2022

Salary: Starting at $53,854, commensurate with experience based on SEZP’s Career Ladder

 

 

SEEKING REVOLUTIONARY COUNSELORS/EDUCATORS

 

The High School of Commerce seeks Counselors/Educators who believe teachers are activists - promising instructional access, rigor, advocacy, and a tenacious commitment to anti-racism for all students.

 

SEZP offers a competitive salary commensurate with qualifications and experience; salaries for new educators start at $50,500. Educators in SEZP qualify for benefits (personal/sick days, health insurance, etc.) offered to other teachers in the Springfield Public Schools.

 

In addition, there are several opportunities unique to the SEZP schools to increase earnings above base salary or as an extension to base salary. Those opportunities currently include, but are not limited to:

  • Advanced and Master Teacher positions: These are awarded following an application process that typically takes place during the winter, and come with salaries of up to $87,000
  • Annual stipends for Capstone Projects associated with national-level professional development opportunities
  • Empowerment Academies:Intervention and instruction opportunities we implement during February, April, and summer breaks, with stipends allowing you to potentially earn $2,000 per week

 

WHO YOU ARE

 

Commerce is seeking Educators who view themselves as change agents beyond mere content instruction and who are committed to equitable instruction for all learners. The essential responsibilities for these roles will be guided by the following two values:

  • AGENCY: We believe educators at Commerce will empower each and every student to pursue their fullest academic and personal potential. We believe a student’s agency to become their best academic and non-academic selves should be organized around rigorous personalized career and college pathways during which the student will own the setting and the attaining of their academic, college, career, and life goals.
  • RELATIONSHIP: We believe that each and every Commerce student thrives in a positive, welcoming learning environment that emphasizes intentional and proactive relationship building. Supported through an explicit and universal culture of restorative justice - prioritizing growth and atonement over punishment and separation – a student will recognize the value of and play a leading role in developing interdependent relationships, with all members of the Commerce community working collaboratively in pursuit of this vision.

 

WHAT YOU WILL DO

 

Educators at Commerce are practitioners who believe in the values of agency and relationship and are willing to advocate for equity both in and out of their classrooms.  Commerce is prepared – considering the centrality of this work to the life-long success our students – to invest substantially in the training, coaching, leadership development, and networking necessary for revolutionary practitioners to thrive in the following job responsibilities:

  • Implement rigorous, equitable curriculum within a cohesive school-wide pedagogical approach and design highly adaptive supports to ensure all students can access grade level content
  • Provide opportunities for students to correlate instructional experiences with college and career applications
  • Coordinate and calibrate academic experiences with those of other practitioners across the school, ensuring an equitable provision of the highest quality instruction for all students
  • Build relationships with select students who opt in to an “X-Block” course you design around your high-interest hobby, skill, experience, or passion
  • Teach students to dream about their lives beyond graduation by building awareness of inequitable barriers, developing self-advocacy skills, and inspiring a vision for potential college and career pathways 

 

WHO WE ARE

 

We are a school immersed in a bold and substantive multi-year redesign process to personalize the high school experience around college and career success. We have innovated school partnerships, schedules, and programming to allow Commerce students to choose from three different college experiences, including a multi-year, 20-credit, early college or applied career pathway at Springfield Technical Community College (STCC), up to 12 credits in a dual enrollment program on the Commerce campus through Worcester State University or Westfield State University, and/or direct work-force entry via Propel America internship pathways in IT, healthcare, or advanced manufacturing.

 

We are a team of activist-educators who are afforded generous time to further our learning together in department and grade level teams, regular substantive coaching and feedback from partners, peers, and leaders to improve our practice, and deeply embedded teacher leadership opportunities to unite our voices in service of dismantling institutionalized racism in and around our school community.

 

 

Qualifications

  • Experience in counseling at the middle and/or high school level preferred
  • Appropriate content/program area educator license (School Counselor) and grade level licensure from the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education preferred
  • Experience as an active anti-racist or advocate for equity preferred
  • Bilingual in English and Spanish preferred
  • Bachelor’s degree required

If you meet some of the qualifications above, we encourage you to apply or reach out for more information. We know that historically marginalized groups – including people of color, women, people from working class backgrounds, and people who identify as LGBTQ – are less likely to apply unless and until they meet every requirement for a job. Therefore, we strongly encourage applications from educators with these identities or who are members of other marginalized communities.

 

We encourage you to reach out to SEZP@springfieldempowerment.org if you have questions about the role or your qualifications. We are happy to help you feel ready to apply!

 

 

Questions?

 

Positions will be filled on a rolling basis; applicants are encouraged to apply immediately. Please contact Kelley (kgangi@springfieldempowerment.org) or SEZP@springfieldempowerment.org with any questions.

 

 

Nondiscrimination Statement

The Springfield Public Schools does not discriminate in employment on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, genetic information, ancestry, age, disability or military service or marital status. The Springfield Public Schools does not discriminate in admission to, access or treatment in its programs and activities on the basis of race, color, sex, gender identity, religion, national origin, or sexual orientation, disability or homelessness.

 

 

Title IX Notice of Nondiscrimination

Springfield Public Schools does not discriminate on the basis of sex in admission, administration of its educational programs or activities or employment.  Springfield Public Schools is required by Title IX and its implementing regulations at 34 C.F.R. Part 106 not to discrimination on the basis of sex in admission, administration of its educational programs or activities or employment.  The Senior Administrator of Human Resources, Kathleen O’Sullivan, Springfield Public Schools, 1550 Main St. Springfield MA, 011103, 413-787-7100,  ext. 55428, has been designated as the employee responsible for coordinating Springfield Public Schools efforts to comply with and carry out its responsibilities under Title IX.  Inquiries concerning the application of Title IX and its implementing regulations at 34 C.F.R. Part 106 to Springfield Public Schools may be referred to Kathleen O’Sullivan or to U.S. Department of Education, Office for Civil Rights, 400 Maryland Ave., SW Washington, DC 20202-1100, telephone 800-421-3481.

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Springfield Public Schools

Springfield, MA