SY25-26 Springfield Legacy Academy Electives (Long-Term Substitute) Teacher

Grades: 6-8

Springfield Legacy Academy Electives Teacher (Long-Term Substitute)

Start Date: Immediate

2025-2026 Wage Information

• Base Pay: $137.96/day
• After 45 days (non-consecutive): $162.32/day
• Long-Term Substitute Teacher (30 consecutive days in one assignment): $271.48/day
  
  

*All Springfield Public School Substitute Teachers are compensated on a bi-weekly schedule.

Job Details Springfield Legacy Academy is committed to building an anti-racist school by ensuring the work of equity is fully inclusive of our emerging bilinguals and exceptional learners and their families across all grade levels. The Legacy community works to ensure linguistic and racial equity through academic rigor and personalized supports that will drive change and empowerment from within. An educator at Legacy will actively advance commitment to equity for our community through biculturalism, anti-racist curriculum and instructional practices, and student empowerment. The leadership team at Legacy seeks skilled and passionate educators called to disrupt institutionalized racism in our classrooms and our community of Springfield scholars.

Job Responsibilities

Educator responsibilities at Legacy include:

• Enacting anti-racist instructional practices that ensure students own the learning
• Providing grade level rigor in the course content using highly-rated, research-based curriculum
• Providing embedded interventions for students needing additional support, time, or scaffolds
• Working closely with a co-taught team of two to three additional educators in the classroom
• Engaging with families as partners in the learning around successes, challenges, and problem-solving on behalf of our scholars
• Other duties as determined by the Principal
  
  

Position Qualifications

• Must possess a minimum of 30 college credits
• Experience teaching at the middle or high school level preferred
• Appropriate content/program area educator license (Moderate Disabilities) and grade level licensure from the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education preferred
• Experience as an active anti-racist or advocate for equity preferred
• Bilingual in English and Spanish preferred
  
  

If you meet some of the qualifications above, we encourage you to apply or reach out for more information. We know that historically marginalized groups - including people of color, women, people from working class backgrounds, and people who identify as LGBTQ - are less likely to apply unless and until they meet every requirement for a job. Therefore, we strongly encourage applications from educators with these identities or who are members of other marginalized communities.

We encourage you to reach out to SEZP at [email protected] if you have questions about the role or your qualifications. We are happy to help you feel ready to apply!

About The Springfield Empowerment Zone Partnership

While Massachusetts is consistently ranked as one of the top states for education results in the country, we have one of the highest and most persistent opportunity gaps. The Springfield Empowerment Zone Partnership (SEZP) - established in 2015 as a collaboration between Springfield Public Schools (SPS), the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE), and the Springfield Education Association (SEA) - seeks to improve the longitudinal life outcomes of the more than 5,000 students in our 16 middle and high schools.

As a "zone" of schools within the city of Springfield, including Springfield Legacy Academy, SEZP's approach draws on a deep and embedded partnership with the school district and local teachers' union, while harnessing the flexibility and innovation found in autonomous school models. As a result, each school within SEZP is accorded significant school-based autonomies - in curriculum, talent, calendar, schedule, and budget - while being held accountable for realizing achievement gains for historically marginalized students. In all of our work, SEZP is in pursuit of equity and anti-racism acknowledging the systemic oppression our students and families encounter daily and working to disrupt these provision gaps urgently and courageously.

NONDISCRIMINATION STATEMENT

The Springfield Public Schools does not discriminate in employment on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, genetic information, ancestry, age, disability or military service or marital status. The Springfield Public Schools does not discriminate in admission to, access or treatment in its programs and activities on the basis of race, color, sex, gender identity, religion, national origin, or sexual orientation, disability or homelessness.

NOTICE OF SEX NONDISCRIMINATION

Springfield Public Schools does not discriminate on the basis of sex and prohibits sex discrimination, including sex-based harassment, in any education program or activity that it operates, as required by Title IX and its regulations, including in admission and employment.

Inquiries about Title IX may be referred to the Springfield Public Schools' Title IX Coordinator, [email protected], the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights at or both.

The Springfield Public Schools Title IX Coordinator is Katie O'Sullivan, Senior Administrator of Human Resources, 1550 Main Street, Springfield, MA 01103, 413-787-7100 ext. 55428, [email protected].

Springfield Public School's sex nondiscrimination policy and grievance procedures can be located on the Springfield Public Schools website,

To report information about conduct that may constitute sex discrimination or make a complaint of sex discrimination under Title IX, please refer to [email protected]