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The Beacon School is Hiring Full-Time Teachers for the 2025–2026 School Year

The Beacon School is seeking several full-time, licensed teachers for the 2025–2026 school year! Beacon offers a challenging, thoughtful, and in-depth college-preparatory, liberal arts curriculum for students in grades 9–12. Our school features inquiry-based learning, a full range of elective courses and arts offerings, and a commitment to community service.

Beacon is a proud member of the New York Performance Standards Consortium—a community of schools whose students engage in performance assessment tasks instead of Regents Examinations. This unique model gives our teachers significantly more curricular and academic freedom to design learning units and activities that engage students, honor their interests, and push them toward higher levels of intellectual achievement.

Beacon is housed in a beautiful, modern building in Manhattan’s Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood and serves over 1,400 high school students. Thanks to the NY Class Size Funding Initiative, we are expanding our incredible team for the upcoming school year. We currently have openings in:

  • Music

  • Science

  • Mathematics

  • Special Education

  • Social Studies

  • English

A Beacon Teacher Candidate:

  • Is motivated to design curriculum and learning tasks that push students to engage with complex, challenging ideas and problems

  • Is committed to engaging students’ hearts and minds in the learning process

  • Is an excellent communicator who can engage with multiple perspectives, explore gray areas, take personal responsibility, recognize our shared humanity, and collaborate constructively with colleagues, students, and parents

  • Has cognitive flexibility and is willing to learn from mistakes and feedback

  • Differentiates instruction, assessments, and materials to provide access and challenge to a diverse range of learners, including students with IEPs and English Language Learners

  • Believes in the mission and vision of the New York Performance Standards Consortium (https://www.performanceassessment.org/core-values) and is willing to assess students using a diverse range of tasks that honor their varied learning styles and guide them toward higher levels of thinking and academic excellence

  • Can be a caring and dedicated advisor to a group of 20 students

Interested candidates should email their resume to:
 Principal Jeannie Ferrari: jferrari3@schools.nyc.gov
Assistant Principal Ann Lennon: ALennon2@schools.nyc.gov

Please include the word “Resume” and your desired position in the email subject line.

Performance Assessment