Associate Teacher Corps - K-12 - 2027-2028

Who are We?

Brooke Charter Schools is a network of four public charter schools serving grades K-12 in Mattapan, Roslindale, and East Boston. At Brooke, we coach and invest in our teachers to ensure students experience high-quality education at all times. We leverage our family partnerships to support and empower our students to live choice-filled lives. Brooke Charter School is committed to high academic achievement and supporting our students to and through college.

What is the Associate Teacher Role?

The Associate Teacher Program is a nontraditional pathway that prepares aspiring educators to become lead teachers within one year. Designed to support early-career educators, the program combines intensive coaching, professional development, and hands-on classroom experience to help participants build the skills and confidence needed to become effective teachers. Brooke Charter Schools is committed to being an anti-racist organization. In support of this commitment, the Associate Teacher Program advances the school's anti-racist and anti-bias mission by recruiting and developing Associates from diverse cultural, ethnic, and racial backgrounds.

The Associate Teacher program has three core components:

• One-to-one Mentoring
• Every Associate Teacher is paired with a mentor. Mentors are experienced lead teachers in their school community.
• Mentor Teachers provide Associate Teachers with targeted feedback to support growth in teaching practices through regular observations, coaching conversations, and formal monthly evaluations.
• Professional Development
• Associates participate in over 300 hours of weekly intensive professional development (PD).
• PD topics include developing culturally sustaining pedagogical practices, how to increase student talk time, and strategies to develop authentic teacher presence, etc.
• Gradual Release Teaching Model
• Associates practice skills from targeted professional development and take on more teaching components.
• Associates teach full days in their mentor's classroom and are granted opportunities to teach across their K-8th or 9th-12th-grade campus.
• Associate teachers will assume the duties of absent classroom teachers and teach across different grade levels and classrooms.

Benefits of being a Brooke Associate Teacher

• Earn a competitive starting salary of $60,000. Lead-teaching promotions are accompanied by a significant salary increase of at least $75,000.
• Upon meeting standards, free enrollment in the online Sheltered Education

• Immersion [https://www.doe.mass.edu/licensure/endorsements/sei.html] (SEI
• Course, a required Massachusetts MTEL)

• One-time reimbursement for the initial Communication and Literacy MTEL.
• Enrollment in medical, dental, and vision insurance accompanied by retirement benefits.

• *Current school year salary is subject to change based on an increase cost of living.

• Is This You?

• You are committed to uprooting racism through academics and equipping your students with tools to advocate for a diverse, equitable, and inclusive future. Read more about how we are working on this at Brooke here

• [https://www.ebrooke.org/ourschools/diversity/].

• You are professional, warm, and collaborative with students, families, and colleagues.
• You are eager for feedback as a means to grow.
• You have earned a bachelor’s degree.
• You will be able to begin working in person late July 2027.

• The community and students we serve are diverse, and we are committed to reflecting that diversity in our staff. We strive to have the most diverse applicant pool possible; to that end, we encourage individuals of all backgrounds to apply for any position at Brooke Charter Schools. By fostering a diverse and inclusive environment, we provide the best educational experience to prepare our students for a future reflective of the world in which we live.