# Grade Level Lead (SY26-27, Middle School) > Veritas Preparatory Charter School · Springfield, United States · Other · Posted 2026-06-02 **Workplace:** on_site **Department:** Internal ## Description **Purpose** The Grade Level Lead is a teacher leader responsible for fostering a strong adult and student culture, managing grade level teams to ensure they meet their grade-level goals, and building a community around the core values, vision, and mission of Veritas Prep. The Grade Level Lead receives a stipend for additional work outside of their teaching role and hours. **What You’ll Do** **Meeting Plan and Facilitation** - Plan and facilitate effective weekly grade-level meetings with the culture team, grade level leads, and an Assistant Principal and/or Principal focused on Tier 1 culture systems and Veritas values - Effectively communicate clear grade-level goals at each meeting - Ensure space for multiple voices/perspectives at all grade-level meetings while also being transparent about decision-making, leading to concrete decisions, next steps, and progress toward goals - Model a solutions-oriented mindset when tackling challenging issues and decisions - Ensure assessment and consideration of preferences, traditions, and requirements (from The Management Center) as it relates to team meetings, workflows, and delegation - Develop skills around facilitating difficult conversations - Utilize an anti-racist lens when looking at data to help identify equity strengths and gaps: ensure student data compilations, meetings, and reports provide data for subgroups including but not limited to race, gender, language learners, and students with learning disabilities **Community Building** - Collaborate with an AP and grade-level team to ensure orientation for staff and students runs smoothly and effectively - Organize and lead monthly grade-level community meetings or other grade level team events that support and inspire a vision of academic excellence in collaboration with an AP - Support the Operations Team in organizing and leading in-school family engagement events - Grow, support, and model the Veritas vision around equity and anti-racism - Set up brief, regular checkpoints with grade-level team members, ensuring they feel supported, heard, and seen - Encourage team collaboration around anti-racism and equity work at Veritas using key tools such as the [Veritas Anti-racism Standards](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rk9VkbsJLwBXx_sJpoz7v1ZpHv-IeS1E_PfjRpW8CcM/edit?usp=sharing) and the [Teaching for Equity Framework](https://leadingeducators.org/equity/) from Leading Educators **Project Management and Operations** - Coordinate the grade-level calendar and ensure strong communication with team members around deadlines and important dates - Leverage the strengths of team members by delegating project-based tasks, monitoring progress, and holding people accountable (i.e. the delegation cycle from The Management Center) - Collaborate with Operations Team to ensure classrooms have appropriate materials and supplies - Work closely with the Director of Culture to reset tier 1 systems and procedures throughout the year as needed - Ensure the grade level data bulletin boards are updated (Attendance/Homework Completion/Honor Roll) - Collaborate with the Director of Operations to support last-minute coverage needs **Data Analysis and Problem-Solving** - Collaborate with the student success team to review data (referrals, Deanslist data, VIPER den, etc.) and problem-solve regarding grade-level in-class interventions - Review student, family, and staff surveys to identify strengths, challenges, and next steps to address gaps - Pull reports from student information systems for the weekly grade-level meeting and add to [Grade Level Goals Tracker](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1AqgIIODfnZjN-l_vvAcrsE0yRx1jPCi3EgTWKx3bmGQ/edit?usp=sharing) - Attendance - Parent Communication Log (contact is 2 weeks or more recent for every family) - CV/ Referrals (Deanslist) **Communication** - Collaborate with student success, operations, counseling, and the student support team to ensure important message are communicated to the grade level teams - Ensure timely, appropriate, clear communication with grade-level team members, staff, students, and parents/families about new initiatives, important events, meetings, updates, deadlines, and announcements - Check in with an AP to debrief grade-level meetings and ensure progress toward grade-level goals - Check in on key procedures and routines for the grade and how they are aligned to school expectations and share reflections, glows, and grows with team members - Openness to collaborate/share best meeting practices with Grade Level Leads across both Veritas schools - Model positive, assets-based communication around student strengths and growth areas ## Requirements **What You’ll Need (Key Qualifications)** - Ability to collaborate across teams (culture, operations, etc.) - Ability to utilize data to make decisions - Ability to positively influence and support peers - Commitment to creating clear, simple systems for organization - Solutions-oriented mindset when navigating challenges - Excitement to grow one’s leadership skills with a community of other teacher leaders - Willingness to learn from and alongside other grade level leads - Ability to take feedback in order to improve one’s meeting facilitation skills - Ability to see themselves as a change agent who can influence the practices of peer - Commitment to anti-racism and ability to utilize the Veritas Anti-Racism Standards to promote change **Time Commitment (In and Out of School)** - There will be two summer training dates scheduled 7/14 & 7/28 - After-school meetings with other Grade Level Leads (monthly or bimonthly) - Quarterly after-school professional development - Weekly tasks and preparation related to the role, as described above ## Benefits **What You’ll Get** - $3,000 stipend - Regular feedback from peers around facilitation - Access to additional professional development from outside providers ## Apply [Apply at Veritas Preparatory Charter School](https://apply.workable.com/veritas-prep-ma/j/8D8706AF49/apply) --- Powered by [Workable](https://www.workable.com)