As the nation's first multi-campus charter school, Friendship Public Charter School has been producing college-ready students for over 15 years. From Preschool through 12th grade, Friendship invests in providing a rigorous academic curriculum that enables our children to excel as ethical, literate, and well-rounded leaders in a 21st century economy. We surpass our peers across the District in public education with a 91% graduation and college entrance rate. To this end, we also hold the quality, success, and development of our teachers with paramount importance. We provide a number of professional growth and development opportunities which have afforded us both the 2010 and 2011 DC Teachers of the Year, and a number of outstanding leaders who launched their careers in our classrooms.

Friendship Public Charter School’s teachers exceed expectations and take on a range of responsibilities in order to ensure every student achieves the academic skills, intellectual habits, and character traits necessary to succeed in the nation’s top universities and beyond. With unwavering commitment, passion, and exceptional talent, our teachers lead our vision for quality and equitable education. Friendship teachers recognize the challenges faced in closing the achievement gap, but persist in leading our children to exceptional heights through data driven academic gains, comprehensive and engaging instruction, and outstanding leadership.

Excellent Teaching & Learning

• Demonstrate continued mastery of content areas
• Lead students to high levels of academic success through rigorous, targeted, and differentiated instruction
• Design and deliver engaging instruction addressing a full range of student needs and learning styles
• Utilize literacy strategies across all content areas
• Develop formal and informal assessments to measure student mastery
• Use data to drive instruction

Environment Conducive to Learning

• Hold students accountable to high academic and behavioral expectations
• Align practices and routines to an achievement-oriented classroom culture
• Foster a safe environment that encourages curiosity, academic risk taking, accountability, and collaboration

Outstanding Leadership

• Reflect on classroom success and areas of improvement to continuously develop practice
• Contribute to the campus and Friendship-wide community by collaborating, seeking professional development, and sharing best practices

Organizational Strength & Viability

• Promote parent involvement through meaningful and consistent communication
• Maintain high professional standards in communication with students, teachers, parents and school administrators

• Commitment to providing a world-class education to students from historically underserved communities
• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited university required.  Master’s degree preferred
• Degree in content area preferred
• 2+  years urban teaching experience with significant academic gains strongly preferred
• Undergraduate GPA of 3.0 and above required
• Successful completion of the ETS PRAXIS I (Reading, Writing, and Math) or Praxis II (Content Knowledge Exam) 
• Degree in content area required
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced and rapidly changing environment
• Strong oral and written communication skills 

FPCS’s policy is to provide equal employment opportunity to all qualified applicants and employees regardless of their race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, genetic information, veteran status, status as a special disabled veteran, or any other protected criteria as established by federal, state, or local laws.  This policy applies to recruitment and hiring, training, promotion, compensation, benefits, transfer, layoff, termination and all other terms and conditions of employment.  Employment decisions at FPCS are based solely upon relevant criteria, including an individual’s capabilities, qualifications, training, experience and suitability.