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Essex Street Academy Hiring for SPED, Math, Comp Sci for Fall 2025

ABOUT OUR SCHOOL

Essex Street Academy is a small, project-based high school in the Lower East Side.  As a member of the NY Performance Standards Consortium, ESA students are exempt from state tests and graduate by completing in-depth projects demonstrating the mastery of core skills and content.  We value diversity and inclusion in our community with respect to all identities and learning styles, and we strive to continuously build a community at ESA that is affirming, inspiring, and advances social justice.

The staff at ESA is committed to learning from one another and our students. Our teachers write their own curricula to be student-centered with an emphasis on authenticity, depth of understanding, and multiple perspectives.  In class students examine essential questions such as “Is nationalism a force for good in the world?” and “How much do our genes really matter?”

We view our community at ESA as a family.  In advisory, students build close ties while developing social-emotional skills over the course of four years together.  We meet regularly as a whole school for our student-led Town Meetings to celebrate accomplishments, discuss important issues, and just have fun.  We have built a strong foundation in restorative practices as a way of strengthening and maintaining our community over time so that ESA can always be a place where all students thrive. 

POSITIONS  We are currently interviewing candidates for Special Education, Math, and F-status Computer Science for Fall 2025.  As always, we encourage great educators in all disciplines who want to work at ESA to apply.  

Selection Criteria:  

Experience in and passion for 

  • The discipline and for creating original, student-centered, project-based curriculum

  • Building strong relationships with students, colleagues, and families and to fostering community within the classroom and throughout the school

  • Working collaboratively in teams with both adults and students to pursue collective growth

  • Fostering an inclusive and intellectually rich learning experience for all students


APPLICATION PROCESS

If you are interested in applying to work at Essex Street Academy, please send your resume and cover letter to the hiring committee at hiring@essexstreetacademy.org 

Our hiring process is as follows:

  1. Send resume and cover letter

  2. An ESA member of the hiring team will reach out to you and schedule a phone interview

  3. Phone interview

  4. Zoom Interview with possible school visit 

Please visit our school website for more information and follow us on instagram!

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