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Teach Where Your Success Matters, Too

Who We Are

Achieving educational justice and equity is foundational to achieving a better future for our city and our country. At Success Academy, we do that by bringing together a diverse group of motivated, committed adults and giving them the resources and support they need to build joyful school communities that deliver a life-changing education for kids of all backgrounds.

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Who We Are

Achieving educational justice and equity is foundational to achieving a better future for our city and our country. At Success Academy, we do that by bringing together a diverse group of motivated, committed adults and giving them the resources and support they need to build joyful school communities that deliver a life-changing education for kids of all backgrounds.

Professional Growth

Transforming opportunity for kids and communities requires talent and know-how. At Success Academy, you receive a summer intensive and weekly training throughout the year to help you rapidly build professional capacity in communications, data analysis, public speaking, project management, and leadership. With ongoing coaching, support, and feedback, you’ll gain skills that transfer to immediate success in your role and will serve you throughout your career. Teachers also have the opportunity to pursue a free master’s degree in education after one year in the classroom.

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Professional Growth

Transforming opportunity for kids and communities requires talent and know-how. At Success Academy, you receive a summer intensive and weekly training throughout the year to help you rapidly build professional capacity in communications, data analysis, public speaking, project management, and leadership. With ongoing coaching, support, and feedback, you’ll gain skills that transfer to immediate success in your role and will serve you throughout your career. Teachers also have the opportunity to pursue a free master’s degree in education after one year in the classroom.

Culture

Working here means living in a city that exudes diversity, adventure, and inspiration and is a magnet for talent and ambition. But you won’t be on your own — you’ll be part of a close-knit team of new and experienced teachers and staff. With on-site exercise classes, regular happy hours, and the profound shared experience of building schools filled with laughter and joy, you will find a home away from home as you develop lifelong friends and contacts.  

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Culture

Working here means living in a city that exudes diversity, adventure, and inspiration and is a magnet for talent and ambition. But you won’t be on your own — you’ll be part of a close-knit team of new and experienced teachers and staff. With on-site exercise classes, regular happy hours, and the profound shared experience of building schools filled with laughter and joy, you will find a home away from home as you develop lifelong friends and contacts.

 

Structure & Support

With fully stocked, technologically up-to-date classrooms, an Operations team that handles non-instructional duties, and a fully-developed yearlong curriculum, teaching at Success Academy is different. Here, you never work solo: daily coaching, weekly half-day trainings, and collaborative team meetings all support your day-to-day responsibilities. At our Robertson Center, you have opportunities to connect with educators from across the city and country, who gather for teacher wellness events, and to explore and debate big ideas and bold solutions in the pursuit of world-class schools.  

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Structure & Support

With fully stocked, technologically up-to-date classrooms, an Operations team that handles non-instructional duties, and a fully-developed yearlong curriculum, teaching at Success Academy is different. Here, you never work solo: daily coaching, weekly half-day trainings, and collaborative team meetings all support your day-to-day responsibilities. At our Robertson Center, you have opportunities to connect with educators from across the city and country, who gather for teacher wellness events, and to explore and debate big ideas and bold solutions in the pursuit of world-class schools.

 

The work you do here is worth it: it makes a difference in your own life and the lives of your students.”

— Vanessa Rivera 7th Grade History Teacher, Success Academy Midtown West

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FAQs

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Why Success?

  • You will be working closely with a team of mission-driven, and wildly talented peers. Unlike the isolation that so many teachers experience, at Success you will be part of a community, working intensively and collaboratively with your colleagues.
  • Success Academy values excellence and seeks out the best and the brightest to staff our schools. You will be part of an elite team that is leading the country in re-imagining public education — and getting eye-popping results.
  • You will receive the highest caliber (and an unprecedented amount of) training and professional development. You will master the most cutting-edge strategies for effective instruction and instructional planning, as well as management and communications skills. You will not only become one of the most successful educators in the country but your general professional skills and marketability will be monumentally increased.

What makes Success Academy different than other charters?

  • We have produced extraordinary results for kids, and we value the whole child, which means we devote considerable resources to providing art, dance, music, chess, debate, sports, coding and technology.
  • We have a dual mission: to build exceptional, world-class public schools and change educational policy so all kids have a fighting chance.

What is Success Academy’s instructional philosophy?

  • Instruction at Success is more child-centered than at most schools. Everything we do in the classroom is designed to get kids to do the “thinking work” — where they ask each other questions, critique hypotheses, and share different ways of solving problems.
  • All of our scholars have science five days per week and all of our elementary school scholars learn chess as part of the curriculum.
  • We give children the opportunity to explore their passions through instruction in performing and visual arts, sports, and debate.

What is the demographic breakdown of Success Academy students? Staff?

  • Across our network, 56% of scholars are African American, 30% are Hispanic, 6% are white, 4% are multi-racial and 3% are Asian. About three-quarters of scholars are low-income.
  • About 44% of our teachers are non-white, which is more than NYC as a whole (40%) and far exceeds the national average (18%).

What is the work-life balance like?

  • Work-life balance is important! We offer a number of supports to help staff members maintain it, from learning time management skills to on-site exercise classes and happy hours. We strongly encourage staff to communicate with their managers if they are struggling in this area.
  • However, this work is hard and not for everyone, but for the right person it can be very rewarding. Our teachers sometimes work long hours in the service of kids — setting the bar high and doing whatever it takes to help scholars clear it.

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