Long Term Substitute Upper School Language Arts Teacher

About DVFriends

Delaware Valley Friends School is a national leader in educating bright students in grades 1-12 with reading, writing, and other related learning differences. The school attracts students from across the Philadelphia area and is in the midst of several years of program expansion and enrollment growth. Students receive a comprehensive, research-based, college preparatory curriculum, individualized instruction, cutting-edge assistive technologies, and successful college placement, with an emphasis on metacognition and self-advocacy within a community based on Quaker values.

About you and the role

As a long-term substitute LA teacher at DVFriends, you will join a dynamic team aligned with the goal of helping bright students with learning differences reach their full potential. As a long-term substitute in the LA department, you would provide instruction in decoding, fluency, writing, and comprehension skills, with the support of our Director of Teaching and Learning and the Upper School division director. Teachers also fulfill other assigned duties and report directly to their division director.

Your skills

You'll be the right person for this job if:

• You want to work for a school that improves kids’ lives alongside people who share that motivation.
• You have had meaningful experience working with kids and/or teens that has energized you and made you optimistic about what students can achieve with the right supports and guidance.
• You communicate well, and you have well-developed organization and executive function skills to lead and manage a complex and nuanced learning environment.
• You see differences among students and adults as value-added, opening up creative pathways to learning and setting the stage for more equitable communities.
• You know yourself well, faults and strengths, and approach others with empathy and generosity of spirit.
• You actively face challenges and lean into problems, drawing upon people and resources to solve them.
• Being around young people provides you with optimism and energy.
• You have a college degree.

Next steps

Please send your resume and cover letter to Allison Gill, Upper School Director 

We are an equal-opportunity employer

DVFriends is working to create a community that recognizes the strength of diversity and aspires to create an inclusive, respectful, and just community. We welcome people of any race, religion, color, national or ethnic origin, sexual orientation, sexual identity, gender, gender identity and expression, age, military or veteran status, family structure, marital status, disability, citizenship status, and socioeconomic status to join our community. DV does not discriminate on the basis of these characteristics in our policies or practices.