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UP Teaching Fellow

UP Teaching Fellow

About UP Education Network
UP Education Network manages and operates six schools in Boston, Lawrence, and Springfield, MA. We serve over 3,000 elementary and middle school students. UP is invited by local school districts to restart chronically underperforming district schools as UP Academies. Each UP Academy shares the same mission: to ensure that students acquire the knowledge, skills, and strength of character necessary to succeed on the path to college and to achieve their full potential.

About Sposato Graduate School of Education
The goal of the Sposato Graduate School of Education® (SGSE) is to create unusually effective rookie teachers for low-income students. At the end of the two-year program, students are awarded a Masters Degree in Effective Teaching, earning an initial license in the first year of the program. The Sposato Graduate School of Education offers a pathway into teaching that is distinctly different from the two well-known pathways: traditional graduate schools of educations and alternative programs like Teach for America.

The program is mapped backwards from the demands of working in the highest performing urban public schools in America. The first year of this two-year program involves full-time graduate study and placement in a high performing urban school. During the second year of graduate studies, individuals are hired as full-time teachers and receive coaching and support from SGSE staff.

Role:
The UP Teaching Fellows program is a unique opportunity for aspiring educators to develop into effective first-year teachers through a unique teacher training and residency model between two proven organizations – UP Education Network, a leading school turnaround organization, and the Sposato Graduate School of Education, a leader in training extraordinary future teachers. Fellows will provide proven instructional support to one of six schools managed by UP in Eastern Massachusetts, while enrolled in graduate studies at the Sposato. For their service, Fellows will receive a stipend of $20,000 from UP. If effective in both of these endeavors, Fellows may apply for a full-time teacher position at UP and earn a Masters of Effective Teaching from Sposato at the end of their first year of successful full-time teaching.

Specific Responsibilities:

At UP Academy:
Throughout the year of full-time graduate studies at SGSE, fellows will spend time in the classroom of a host teacher and engage in the broader school community. Specifically:
  • Fellows will support execution of core program features, including upholding relentlessly high and consistent academic and behavioral expectations, supporting seamless and detailed operating procedures, and implementing rigorous, standards-based curriculum, instruction, and assessments.
  • Fellows will engage in at least 150 hours of teacher practice over the course of the year. Instructional responsibilities will be scaffolded so that by the spring of 2018, Fellows will be teaching an entire unit of instruction. A Fellow may begin the year observing instruction,
    culminating in executing rigorous instruction.
  • Fellows will build invaluable experience engaging in the operations and culture of a high-
    functioning school environment.
  • Fellows will participate in planning time, cohort meetings, and school-based professional
    development in order to support instructional content development and to develop skills
    as a curriculum planner and member of a broader school community.
At Sposato Graduate School of Education:
  • Complete all coursework in pursuit of a Masters of Effective Teaching graduate degree, which involves 2-3 nights per week of scheduled classes; and
  • Participate in Saturday SGSE coursework and group practice.