NEOGOV · 1 month ago
HIGH SCHOOL SOCIAL STUDIES TEACHER
Baton Rouge, LA
Full-time
Onsite
Entry, Mid Level
2+ years expNEOGOV is part of the Louisiana Special School District, which serves students with low incidence disabilities. They are seeking a High School Social Studies Teacher to plan and execute lessons aligned with state standards, while fostering a positive classroom environment and supporting diverse learning needs.
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Responsibilities
Plan rigorous lessons aligned to the Louisiana State Standards – Leap Connectors, and the school’s internal curriculum to align all of your planning
Utilize curriculum assessments at the daily, weekly, and unit level to measure what your students learned: Daily Exit Tickets (formative) to know if you were successful in teaching that day; Weekly or Unit Assessments (summative) to assess students learning
For each assessment, create your ideal student response or mastery response to clearly define the bar of rigor your students must reach
Utilize curriculum summative assessments to test overall mastery at the unit level that are aligned to the end of year assessment for your course
Know your content deeply. Ensure lessons demonstrate your knowledge and passion for your content. Lessons must drive mastery and investment in your content from every student you teach
Ensure your students know that you believe in them as well as know what you expect from them and why
Create a classroom culture where 100% of your students are engaged in your lesson and doing rigorous thinking at every moment throughout your lesson
Create and leverage a classroom narrative along with the school system of positive behavior support and positive discipline to build strong and positive student identities
Use praise and recognition to ensure your students know what you value
Use corrections and consequences to teach expected behavior while holding students accountable to high standards
Build relationships with students that let them know you care about them as individuals
Leverage those relationships to push your students to the highest heights academically and as people
Use Restorative Approaches with every student when approaching corrections and consequences
Work hard to keep your students in class and only send a child out when he or she needs time to step back, re-center, or reflect on something that needs improvement behaviorally
Incorporate best practices received in trainings on social and emotional learning for students and model the use of these strategies
Check in with students monthly to support positive student relationships and to identify potential concerns
Ensure regular communication every month with parents so they also know you are invested in their child
Execute the lessons you’ve planned with fidelity and at the highest level, ensuring 100% of your students are engaged in your lesson and doing rigorous thinking at every moment
Bring passion, joy, and energy to your execution
Ensure students reflect the level of passion, joy and energy you feel as a result of your execution
Gather data throughout your lesson to ensure students at all levels in your classroom are mastering the material
Use these Checks for Understanding to pivot your lesson in the moment
Ensure your lessons drive towards both mastery of the Exit Ticket for that day and mastery in the larger themes of your unit: The Enduring Understandings and Essential Questions
Reflect on your data daily to know what your students learned and what they didn’t learn
Make a plan to fill in those gaps the following day and retest later on
Teach to the diverse learning needs of every student you teach
Take action on and responsibility for every student in your classroom regardless of incoming achievement level or diverse learning needs
Plan and execute strong Tier 1 and Tier 2 interventions within the Response to Intervention (RtI) framework
Track data to assess the efficacy of your interventions
If interventions aren’t working, find new interventions to test out to ensure all students are growing as fast as possible towards their goals
Ensure all students have high quality accommodations and modifications in place to meet their unique needs
Commit to a minimum of one hour, two days per week of tutoring
Actively participate in all team meetings including but not limited to: our daily Morning Meeting, Weekly Grade Level and/or Department meetings, Professional Development, Network Wide Data Days on a quarterly basis, and Monthly Professional Learning Community meetings
Collaborate with others to drive the success of your grade level and school
Seek solutions to problems you see constantly
Constantly look across the school and ask yourself, 'How can our school be better tomorrow?'
Proactively propose solutions and ideas to improve the school
Qualification
Required
Louisiana teaching certificate
2+ years of teaching experience, preferably working with students from similar backgrounds to LSD students
Preferred
Certification in deaf education preferred
Sign Language Proficiency-Advanced level, preferred (2 years to achieve)
Company
NEOGOV
NEOGOV is the leading provider of workforce management software uniquely designed for the public sector, education, and public safety.
501-1000 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$700MKey Investors
Warburg Pincus
2025-07-28Secondary Market· $700M
2025-07-28Acquired
2021-06-02Private Equity
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CEO
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