Why Collegiate Academy?

Friendship Collegiate Academy builds scholars ready for the rigors and rewards of college. By immersing students in a collegiate environment that provides early exposure to college-level courses and experiences, Collegiate achieves some of the highest graduation and college acceptance rates in the Washington area.

Collegiate’s roadmap to student success includes 16 College Board Advanced Placement courses among four rigorous career academies that encourage self-discovery and a mastery of core academic content: Early College, Information Technology and Engineering, Fine Arts, and Health Sciences.

Our Early College Academy, the first such program at a public charter high school in the city, offers highly motivated students the opportunity to earn up to two years’ college credit before graduation. Today, Early College alumni proudly hold degrees from some of the nation’s most competitive institutions: Princeton. Morehouse. Columbia. William and Mary. Spelman. Carnegie Mellon. Virginia. Maryland. George Washington. UCLA. Georgetown. The list grows year by year.

But a Collegiate education is more than cracking books. Students enjoy a variety of clubs and athletic activities that reinforce the core values of integrity, confidence, persistence and teamwork. From an award-winning robotics team and drama club to the city’s No.1 charter high school football team, Collegiate develops well-rounded scholars ready to succeed at whatever advanced goals they tackle.

Friendship Public Charter School operates a thriving network of college preparatory public charter schools. Headquartered in Washington, DC., Friendship serves over 4,800 students in preschool to grade 12 and guides a growing network of alumni to college completion annually.  Our mission is to prepare students to become ethical, literate, well-rounded, and self-sufficient citizens by providing a world-class education that motivates students to reach high academic standards, to enjoy learning, to achieve success, and to contribute actively to their communities. For 25 years, with the support and guidance of our exceptional faculty, our students have risen to the challenge with high graduation rates, college acceptances, and unparalleled success academically and socially.

Friendship is looking for responsible, confident, respectful, caring, committed, persistent, and patient professionals to join our family for the 2024-2025 school year starting in August 2024. Friendship Public Charter Schools is committed to the idea that each and every child can make it to and through college. If you share that belief, please apply. 

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Please see the available salary scales: FPCS Compensation

Intensify Curriculum and Instruction

• Show increasing skills in their grade-appropriate curriculum, intensifying and tailoring these for students with disabilities affecting learning, attention, social functioning, and self-regulation.
• Ability to develop interim assessments, analyze student data collected from interim assessments, and continually adjust teaching practices to ensure student understanding.
• Ability to build rubrics to demonstrate how student work reflects mastery of standards.
• Demonstrate ability to articulate the criteria for exemplary student work.
• Design and deliver engaging instruction addressing the needs of a full range of student learning styles.
• Show commitment to refining curriculum approaches and materials to increase students’ progress and persistence in learning new and specialized approaches for atypical learners.
• Provide strategic instruction for struggling students through 1 to 1 or small groups, within the classroom or time-limited, focused pull asides.
• Keep track of the individual progress of students with disabilities on their assigned caseload.
• Provide instructional intensity, feedback, and opportunities for practice for students with disabilities across the school's learning environment.
• Engage technology creativity for individual student’s learning and for tracking individual progress.
• Utilize literacy strategies across all content areas and develop formative assessments, analyze results, and adjust teaching practices to ensure student understanding of the material.
• Have experience teaching transition and life skills.
• Create a welcoming, positive learning environment that motivates and engages students 
• Set and maintain high academic and behavioral expectations for all students

Support Instruction Across the School

• Establish working relations with colleagues, developing effective systems for reciprocal communication about students with special needs.
• Contribute to strengthening school-wide supports for all children, working together with classroom teachers so that students with difficulties and vulnerabilities become increasingly active and successful.
• Provide ongoing support for classroom paraprofessionals and dedicated aides, utilize co-teaching models, and support students by providing intensive pull asides for students having difficulties.
• Demonstrate creativity, flexibility, and perseverance in dealing with learning, behavioral, family, and classroom situations that are not easily untangled.

Communicate

• Maintain productive communication about the Special Education Program (i.e., student progress) with the principal, teachers, parents, students and other school staff.
• Contribute to the improvement of instruction within the school by communicating ideas within and across classrooms and teams. Be an innovative thinker who works well in a team environment
• Have working knowledge of Department of Disability Services and be able to utilize their services to benefit students.
• Adhere to school management and discipline policies within classroom and school campus             

Comply with Special Education Law and Procedures

• Be knowledgeable of, and comply with, relevant federal and state district regulations governing special education, including placements, timelines, notifications, IEPs, parental roles, reevaluations, and procedural safeguards.
• Provide ongoing support for parents of students with disabilities, informing them of special education rights and procedures as well as exchanging insights about the needs and progress of their child.

Required:

• Bachelor's degree in Education or Special Education
• Two years of relevant classroom teaching experience 
• At least ONE of the following:
  • Successful completion of the content area ETS Praxis II Exam
  • Valid Special Education Teaching License
  • Degree in content area
• Desire to integrate life skills activities into academic lessons and support students as they practice daily living skills

Preferred:

• Master's degree in Special Education
• Experience in a self-contained setting
• Two years of urban teaching experience
• Evidence of ongoing professional development and/or continuing education