Careers

At Strive Charter School, we will pay our educators a reasonable salary for reasonable hours in good working conditions.

• Your working day will be eight hours. You will have at least 2½ hours during the day for lunch, professional development, and individual and team planning, so you shouldn’t need to take work home.
• Instruction begins at 9 a.m. so you’ll be able to arrive at 8:30 a.m. and leave by 4:30 p.m.
• You will earn $80,000 if you have two years of classroom experience (either as a teacher or assistant teacher) and an additional $2,000 for each additional year of classroom experience.
• Our school is conveniently located in the South Bronx just two blocks from the Cypress Avenue # 6 subway station.
• Our dress code is relaxed. You can wear sneakers and dress comfortably (so long as you dress in a way that our students’ parents will also find appropriate). 
• Our philosophy is pragmatically progressive. We will have some traditional instruction but during much of the day, children will be involved in self-directed activities such as reading books of their choice, doing science kits, engaging in project based learning, and playing educational games. We want a joyful and rewarding school environment for both our teachers and students.
• If you have children who are elementary school age, they are welcome to attend our school and we hope they will! We are seeking to create a joyful and academically ambitious school to which we would want to send our own children.
• You will have help from teaching assistants who will supervise lunch and recess and will support you in the classroom so you can provide small group instruction. 
• You will be treated with respect by students, parents, and by us. Teachers work too hard to be treated disrespectfully, so we don’t tolerate it. 
• You will have six weeks of paid time off including holidays, vacation days, and sick/personal days that can be converted to vacation days if unused.

Strive Charter School will be open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., seven days a week, twelve months a year but that won't be your work schedule. You will work weekdays for eight hours a day. We will rely on teaching assistants to staff the additional optional days and hours that we are open.