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Brooke Charter Schools offers City Year alums

Teaching residency

Brooke Charter Schools offers City Year alums the opportunity to join the . Associate Teachers are paired with a talented mentor teacher and receive a yearlong apprenticeship in great teaching, including regular observations/feedback and targeted professional development, and receive the following benefits:

• Earn a competitive starting salary of 60,000. Lead-teaching promotions are accompanied by a significant salary increase of at least $75,000.
• Upon meeting standards, free enrollment in the online Sheltered Education Immersion (SEI Course, a required Massachusetts MTEL)
• One-time reimbursement for the initial Communication and Literacy MTEL.
• Enrollment in medical, dental, and vision insurance is accompanied by retirement benefits.

After a year of support and development, the majority of Associate Teachers are ready to take on their own classrooms as full-time teachers.

What is the Associate Teacher Role?

• One-to-one Mentoring
  • • Every Associate Teacher is paired with a mentor. Mentors are experienced teacher leaders in their school community.
    • Mentor Teachers provide Associate Teachers with targeted feedback to support growth in teaching practices through regular observations, coaching conversations, and formal monthly evaluations.
• Professional Development
  • • Associates participate in over 300 hours of weekly intensive professional development (PD).
    • PD topics include anti-racist classroom management practices, developing standards-based lesson plans, and how to center student voice at the core of the learning experience, etc.
• Gradual Release Teaching Model
  • • Associates practice skills from targeted professional development and take on more teaching components.
    • Associates teach full days in their mentor’s classroom and are granted opportunities to teach across their K-8th or 9th-12 campus.
    • Associate teachers will assume the duties of absent classroom teachers and teach across different grade levels and classrooms.

Why City Year loves Brooke Charter Schools

is a network of four public charter schools, serving grades K-12 in Mattapan, Roslindale and East Boston. Brooke coaches and invests in its teachers so they can help students achieve at high levels and graduate from college. Brooke believes academic achievement empowers students to live choice-filled lives and enhances their ability to contribute to creating a just world. In a culture of achievement, educators support students in recognizing and building their identities as sources of strength even as they work to grow and achieve in new ways.

The Associate Teacher Program is a yearlong teacher residency where aspiring teachers gain the skills necessary to lead high-achieving classrooms and equip their students with tools to advocate for a better future. The City Year experience is a strong indicator of future success at Brooke Charter Schools, and serving with City Year strengthens an applicant’s chances for being selected as an Associate Teacher.

To apply

to view details on the program qualifications, admissions timeline, application process and to .

To identify your City Year affiliation

City Year AmeriCorps members and alums should be sure to check the “City Year alum” box on the application to identify yourself as a City Year alum and guarantee that you receive applicant preference and a first-round phone interview.

For more information

If you want to learn more, please contact Dareon Stacker, Director of the Associate Teacher Program at dstacker@ebrooke.org or .

Please note that all admissions decisions are made by Brooke Charter Schools. AmeriCorps members and alums interested in the program must complete the full application process.