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 AVAILABLE
We are not currently interviewing candidates for any positionsm, but as always, we encourage great educators in all disciplines who want to work at ESA to apply.
Selection Criteria:
- Experience working with young people
- Passionate about building strong relationships with students, staff, and families and to fostering community within the classroom and throughout the school
- Enthusiastic about working in teams with both adults and students to pursue collective growth
- Committed to fostering an inclusive and intellectually challenging learning experience for all students