Why Friendship Online?

Friendship Public Charter School Online (Friendship PCS Online) is a unique partnership between the Friendship Public Charter School and Stride K12. Our students are proud members of the Friendship family who engage with their education in a virtual environment. Friendship PCS Online offers the engaging and rigorous Stride K12 curriculum in an effort to provide our students with current, meaningful, and interactive lessons in reading, language arts, mathematics, history, science, music, and art. Friendship PCS Online even offers world language courses in five languages, including Spanish, German, French, Latin, and Chinese.

Our students range from kindergarten to grade 8 and are assisted by highly motivated, passionate teachers both virtually and in person. Our academic leaders and teachers also support parents or other adults in the home as they take on an important role as a student’s Learning Coach. Although many of the lessons and learning activities occur online and in the home, Friendship Public Charter School Online students are often brought together through face-to-face learning sessions at the Nicholson Street Campus. Our students and families are also invited and encouraged to attend a wide variety of fun and educational family outings and field trips each month.

We are excited to consider your application for anticipated vacancies in the 2025-2026 school year. We are thrilled that you’re considering applying for openings expected in the 2025-2026 school year at Friendship Public Charter School. Our formal interview process will begin in January 2025, for our confirmed vacancies only. Non-vacant positions may still be posted during this time. 

Friendship Public Charter School operates a dynamic network of college-preparatory charter schools headquartered in Washington, DC. We proudly serve more than 4,800 preschool through 12th-grade students and support a growing network of alumni as they complete college. Our mission is to provide students with a world-class education that fosters ethical, literate, well-rounded, and self-sufficient individuals. We aim to inspire students to reach high academic standards, enjoy the learning process, succeed in their endeavors, and contribute actively to their communities. For 25 years, thanks to the dedication and expertise of our outstanding faculty, our students have excelled—achieving high graduation rates, college acceptance, and success both academically and socially.

We are seeking professionals who are responsible, confident, respectful, caring, committed, persistent, and patient to join our community for the 2025-2026 school year, starting in August 2025. At Friendship, we believe that every child has the potential to reach and succeed in college—and we invite those who share this belief to apply.

For more information about our Teacher Evaluation Method, see the Danielson Framework for Teaching.

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Please also see the available salary scales: FPCS Compensation

Special Education Self-Contained Teacher: A special education teacher who primarily serves students in a separate classroom and a more intensive educational environment for students with more significant disabilities or exceptional needs. In a self-contained classroom, students spend the majority or all of their school day in this specialized setting, apart from the general education environment.

• Team members working at one of Friendship’s Online Academies will work the majority of time virtually in collaboration with other team members, scholars and learning coaches. Throughout the year, there will be times when team members will report in-person to support testing, participate in check and connect sessions, field trips, in-person tutoring, professional development, etc. Friendship’s Online Academy Team Members are required to participate in all in-person activities. The number of in-person days varies from month to month depending on scheduled activities.
• Create a virtual classroom culture of high achievement and student ownership of their learning that helps foster students’ intellectual, social and emotional development.
• Provide daily instruction, including clear learning outcomes, well-designed lessons and high-quality assessments that align to Friendship’s curriculum and standards.
• Incorporate into lessons creative, hands-on learning experiences that broaden students’ exposure and interests, help foster student ingenuity and require application of knowledge and skills acquired through daily instruction.
• Provide a classroom environment that is visually appealing, rich with resources aligned to curriculum and standards and honors student’s achievement with current and accurate displays of exemplary student work.
• Communicate to students to understand their talents, interests and needs and to convey learning expectations and their progress toward meeting those expectations.
• Communicate regularly with families to identify students’ talents, interests and needs and update parents regarding students’ achievements and progress.
• Collaborate with school-based staff and throughout the Friendship network in staff meetings, regular analysis sessions and professional learning designed to enhance students’ learning experience and increase student achievement.

Excellent Instructional Practices & Behavioral Support

• Exhibit an in-depth knowledge of students with disabilities including but not limited to specific learning disability, emotional disability, other health impairments (ADHD), autism, speech & language impairment, hearing impaired, and vision impairment.
• Demonstrate continued mastery of content area and skills to tailor the content for students with disabilities (i.e., learning, attention, social functioning, and self-regulation)
• Lead students to high levels of academic success through rigorous, targeted, and differentiated instruction
• Track the individual progress of students with disabilities (i.e., academic and social-emotional)
• Design and deliver engaging instruction addressing a full range of student needs and learning styles through an online platform
• Utilize research-based literacy strategies across all content areas
• Use data driven Instruction by analyzing student data collected from assessments and continually adjusting teaching practices to ensure student understanding
• Provide strategic instruction for struggling students through co-teaching models, 1 to 1, and/or small groups in an online platform

Comply with Special Education Law and Procedures

• Maintain productive communication about the Special Education Program (i.e., student progress) with multiple stakeholders including the parent
• 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

Environment Conducive to Learning

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

Outstanding Leadership

• Reflect on success and areas of improvement to continuously develop practice
• Contribute to the online program by collaborating, seeking professional development
• Plan with online classroom colleagues, swapping expertise and following up with supportive instruction, strategic modeling, and tailored instructional materials

Organizational Strength & Viability

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

Team members working at one of Friendship’s Online Academies will work in a hybrid capacity, with a potential of 3 days a week in person and 2 days a week virtually in collaboration with other team members, scholars, and learning coaches. Throughout the year, there will also be times when team members will report in-person to support testing, participate in check and connect sessions, field trips, in-person tutoring, professional development, etc. Friendship’s Online Academy Team Members are required to participate in all in-person activities. The number of in-person days varies from month to month depending on scheduled activities.

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited university
• Commitment to providing a world-class education through an online platform for students who have a medical exemption and cannot attend school in person.
• 2+ years relevant urban teaching experience with significant academic gains strongly preferred
• Undergraduate GPA of 3.0 and above required
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced and rapidly changing environment
• Experience with providing online educational services is preferred 
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• 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

Praxis Information:

• For upcoming Praxis test date please visit the website at www.ets.org/praxis
• For HQ requirements visit http://osse.dc.gov

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.