# MS Content Leads (SY26-27, Middle School) > Veritas Preparatory Charter School · Springfield, United States · Other · Posted 2026-06-02 **Workplace:** on_site **Department:** Internal ## Description **Purpose** The Content Lead is a teacher leader collaborating closely with the Principal and Assistant Principal. They are responsible for creating a culture of high academic expectations and ensuring teacher support and development around teaching and learning, e.g., lesson planning and data-informed practices. The Content Lead receives a stipend for additional work outside of their teaching role and hours. **What You’ll Do** **Lead Planning Meetings** - Facilitate weekly planning meetings to support teachers in their intellectual prep and understanding targeted standards for a unit (or the text and standards if ELA) - Lead unit launches to ensure the team utilizes backwards planning, is grounded in exemplars, and prioritizes appropriate standards - Collaborate with an AP to prioritize pacing for the unit and to clarify where individual teacher choice points exist in daily lesson plans - Model the use of exemplars to drive discussions about planning - Utilize an anti-racist lens when facilitating discussions about curriculum, instruction, and planning **Lead Data Meetings** - Use See It, Name It, Do It structure to facilitate weekly data meetings grounded in standards and student work, such as exit tickets, interim assessments, unit assessments, etc. - Support the team in prioritizing which student assignments to review each week - Actively use Jumprope to understand trends in student learning and mastery of standards - Collaborate with an AP to identify strengths and gaps in student learning - Keep academic goals front and center and report out regularly to the team around progress and challenges - 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 **Curriculum Materials and Calendar Management** - Ensure the team has access to curriculum materials, unit and daily lesson plans, and all assessments (NOTE: _The focus here is on making sure people have access to the unit plans, lesson plans, and assessments that already exist. Any new units will either come from a professional curriculum site or from paid curriculum writers on our team who get a lot of feedback. This is materials management and organization, with small tweaks, and supporting the team in intellectually prepping_.) - Create a curriculum and assessment calendar in close collaboration with an AP so teachers know what to teach when and are prepared for administration of assessments - Collaborate with the Director of Operations and/or AP around test administration (e.g., ANet, MCAS, ACCESS) - Keep Dropbox and/or Google drive organized so teachers can easily access needed materials (if we do not adopt curriculum materials that are already posted somewhere). - Ensure teachers are clear about priority standards and key resources to use for tutoring. - Internalize Veritas Anti-Racism Standards and utilize them to ensure curriculum reflects our students’ lives and that assessments are intentionally developed and selected with anti-racism principles in mind. - Be available to support teachers who need extra guidance around intellectual prep **Communication** - Effectively communicate clear grade-level academic 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 positive, assets-based communication around student strengths and growth areas - Use the delegation cycle effectively to ensure team has access to curriculum and assessment materials and resources they need - Send weekly forecasting emails or meetings to help teams prioritize and manage the workflow **Team Development** - 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 - Model how to effectively partner with Special Education and MLL Teachers to support student needs - Support team members in learning how to navigate and utilize tech platforms, e.g., Edulastic, Nearpod, Actively Learn, ANet, Dropbox, etc. - 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 - Be available to support teachers who need extra guidance around intellectual prep ## Requirements **What You'll Need (Key Qualifications)** - Ability to hold a high bar for grade-level academic standards and academic performance - 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 peers - Commitment to anti-racism and ability to utilize the Veritas Anti-Racism Standards to promote change **Time Commitment (In School and Out of School)** - There will be two summer training dates scheduled 7/14 & 7/28 - After-school meetings with other Content 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 - Training and coaching from an AP and/or the Principal - 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/F927A2BBD1/apply) --- Powered by [Workable](https://www.workable.com)