Fellow, East Harlem Inclusive Learning (Special Education) Teaching Fellowship (2025-2027)

Fellow, East Harlem Inclusive Learning (Special Education) Teaching Fellowship (2025-2027)

Position Reports to: Director, East Harlem Teaching Residency

Start/End Date: Late May 2025 - Late June 2027

Application Deadline: The next application deadline is December 3rd, 2024 (applications are accepted on a rolling basis but each application deadline informs what interview finalist day you will attend).

Snapshot

This is a 2-year program that prepares aspiring teachers through rigorous coursework in Special Education at Hunter College school of Education and a 2-year paid fellowship as an inclusive learning (special education) teacher at East Harlem Scholars Academies with extensive support and training in culturally responsive pedagogy. Fellows will complete the program with a Master’s degree in Special Education and initial New York State teaching certification.

Who We Are

East Harlem Scholars Academies are community-based Pre-K to 12 public charter schools operated by East Harlem Tutorial Program (EHTP). EHTP began in 1958 as a children's reading group and has since grown into a multi-site after-school program for traditional public school students and a network of public charter schools focused on significantly increasing the college graduation rate in East Harlem. We are on track to serve at least 25% of East Harlem students by 2025, with enrollment for this year at approximately 2200 students in our schools and after school programs. In 2020, 99% of our seniors were accepted to college, and our current scholars in college are on-track to graduate at eight times the national average of their peers.

At EHTP we also aim to serve as an agent of change and thoughtfully contribute to the national fight for racial equity. Through our organization-wide commitment to anti-racism work, we prepare our scholars to effect change, challenge the status quo, and thrive in the world around them. As staff members, we face our own racial identities and conscious and unconscious biases. With this in mind, all of our professional development, curriculum, organizational materials, and processes are designed with a goal of racial justice. Read our racial equity statement here.

We ground all of our work in racial equity, in our core values, and in our four guiding pursuits: the Revolutionary Pursuit of Love, the Radical Pursuit of Knowledge, the Responsive Pursuit of Healing, and in the Relentless Pursuit of Results. These pursuits inform and are reflected in our current four key strategic priorities: to increase high-impact, high-quality academic curriculum, programming content, staff capacity, and coaching; to embrace and advance our use of technology; to deepen our embodiment of ethical and equitable radical humanity; and to efficiently operationalize teaching, learning, community, and care.

For more information about Scholars Academies, please visit us at www.eastharlemscholars.org.

Hunter College School of Education

Hunter was New York City’s first teacher training program, founded in 1870, and to this day carries on a proud tradition of achievement and commitment to preparing teachers, counselors and administrators in over 40 specializations who make a difference in the lives of children, adolescents and consumers in communities throughout New York City and beyond. The Hunter College School of Education is dedicated to the preparation of deeply thoughtful, knowledgeable and highly effective teachers, administrators and counselors. Their commitment is to educate future professionals who will make a significant impact on the academic achievement, as well as the intellectual, social and emotional development of their students. The 2014 National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ) review of teacher preparation programs, published by U.S. News & World Report, indicates that the Hunter College School of Education offers the greatest breadth of quality across programs in the mid-Atlantic United States and the highest overall ranking in New York State.

The Work and Why it Matters

The East Harlem Teaching Fellowship, an EHTP program, in partnership with Hunter College School of Education, is an innovative, cohort-based teacher-training pathway for recent college graduates and career changers that develops, supports, and certifies aspiring educators to become inclusive learning teachers for East Harlem Scholars Academies and the greater East Harlem community. The program aims to improve educational outcomes for East Harlem students and increase the number of highly effective teachers serving East Harlem.

Inclusive Learning Fellowship

• 2-year teacher preparation program
• $60,000/year salary + subsidized tuition + benefits
• Subsidized master’s degree and certification in Special Education from Hunter College
• Teach alongside a co-teacher in a 5th - 12th grade classroom at East Harlem Scholars Academies and take graduate coursework on the evenings and some weekends

As a Teaching Fellow you will:

Enroll in Graduate Coursework

• Engage in coursework at Hunter College, both on- and off-site (classes are held during the workday and in the evenings; there may be occasional Saturdays)
• Complete all requirements for initial teaching certification

Receive Coaching and Cohort-based Learning Opportunities

• Conduct structured observations of and co-teach with highly effective teachers in Scholars Academies
• Receive weekly coaching tailored to your needs as a classroom teacher
• Receive cohort-based professional development
• Engage in ongoing reflection exercises linking theory learned in graduate coursework to actions practiced in the classroom

Contribute to Community Engagement

• Build positive relationships with families of EHTP students through frequent communication about students’ progress and ways that families can support their children’s learning
• Plan at least one Family Engagement Event for families

Who You Are

• You believe in EHTP’s mission, core values, and racial equity statement
• You are open to exploring your own identity and privilege
• You enjoy working with students, have an interest in teaching elementary students, and want to gain valuable classroom experience
• You are committed to teaching in the East Harlem community
• You are open to giving and receiving constructive feedback and are looking for professional growth opportunities consistently
• You value teamwork and are able to work collaboratively with other instructional and support staff members in an effort to best serve your students
• You have the perseverance to overcome any challenge
• You are highly organized and hold yourself to high professional standards
• You possess strong interpersonal communication skills (written and oral)

Eligibility Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree conferred by June 2025

• Preferred minimum undergraduate GPA of 3.0 on a 4.0 scale

  • If you have an undergraduate GPA that falls under a 3.0, you will be required to write a statement explaining 1) any factors that impacted your undergraduate GPA, and 2) the steps you plan to take in order to ensure that you succeed in the Fellowship program

• A liberal arts or sciences major (or interdisciplinary concentration) of at least 30 credits

• A liberal arts core including the following:

  • *a General Education core in the liberal arts and sciences to include artistic expression, communication, information retrieval *
  • concepts in history and social sciences, humanities
  • a language other than English
  • *scientific and mathematical processes *
  • written analysis and expression

• U.S. Citizen or National/Permanent Resident status

• Applicants must not have taken more than 18 college credits in special education

• Experience working with students a plus, but not required

• Due to the nature of our diverse student population, Arabic, Mandarin or Spanish speaking candidates are highly encouraged to apply

Compensation and Benefits:

• $60,000/year salary
• Health insurance
• $10,000 towards Masters’ Degree in Special Education ($5,000 per year)
• NYS teaching certification upon completion of program
• Paid vacation (aligned with school closings calendar)
• Laptop
• Academic and financial guidance
• Job placement support
• This two-year program counts toward your years of teaching for student loan forgiveness or you are eligible to enroll in Public Service Loan Forgiveness

Thank you in advance for taking the time to apply to East Harlem Scholars Academies.