Launch High School Math Teacher -- Leave Replacement

Launch High School Math Teacher -- Leave Replacement

About Launch

Launch High School is currently hiring to staff a founding high school option for students of Brooklyn focused on tackling the two greatest challenges of our time– climate change and equity. The Launch High School welcomed its first 9th grade class in Brooklyn, NY in Fall 2025. Launch High School builds on the work of Launch’s middle school, an EL Education school that has operated in Weeksville, Brooklyn for 13 years. Launch's mission is dedicated to empowering all students to develop the knowledge, skills and character to disrupt inequities in society and build a better world. We believe that students at all levels can be pushed and supported to do more than they think possible.

Launch High School is a transformative, student-centered learning environment that offers one of the most innovative and impactful high school experiences in NYC.

• Competency Based Learning rooted in reDesign’s Future9 Competencies
• Personalized Learning that honors student voice, choice and builds their capacity to direct their own learning as they move through high school
• Groundbreaking Learning Ecosystem model design that ensures learning is not limited to the classroom, leveraging community partnerships (including the National Park Service, as well as local non-profit and business partners)

You can learn more about the high school model in our community driven, work-in-progress School Design Blueprint.

This position runs from late March to June 2026 and is a chance to join a growing school community. Candidates who meet performance expectations, and if school needs align, may be invited for a full-time Math teacher role for 2026–2027.

Launch is building a founding team focused on rigorous instruction, personalized learning, and continuous improvement. We treat our school as a lab of innovation where growth and development of our staff members is prioritized. We believe that creativity, authenticity and hustle among our founding team are key ingredients to the success of our students in learning in a way that is truly personalized, and that can only be accomplished with comprehensive coaching supports that help our staff be authentically their best.

As a math teacher at 9th Grade Launch High School, your responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Designing and adapting curriculum in order to deliver high-quality instruction responsive to all students in support of preparing students for the Algebra 1 Regents Exam in June 2026. With expected shifts to Regents requirements in the coming year, there will be an opportunity to contribute to design differentiated end of course assessment in future.
• Differentiate instruction through strong tier 1 supports, including (but not limited to) a co-teaching model in ICT classes to ensure that all students achieve mastery of learning targets and a collaborative design model with other teachers to ensure an effective interdisciplinary approach across classes
• Collaborate with colleagues to plan, analyze data, and engage in department team meetings and/or professional growth opportunities (i.e. coaching) to support outstanding instruction
• Utilize differentiated instructional strategies to meet the diverse needs of ELL students at varying levels of language proficiency.
• Lead an advisory group called Crew using common school-wide structures and materials. Launch’s Crew program offers daily small-group advisory where students set goals, reflect on progress, and engage in social-emotional learning. Advisors integrate PLJ management into everyday Crew and foster strong relationships, ensuring every student feels supported and valued.
• Establish and maintain consistent classroom expectations and routines in a self-managed, student-centered classroom, including building reflective practices in preparation for students to lead Student-Led Conferences
• Maintain strong relationships with students and their families as partners in developing student agency and academic habits.
• Help maintain strong school culture in public spaces throughout the school by fulfilling assigned duties
• Teach from a culturally responsive sustaining education framework
• Invest in Competency Based Learning using reDesign’s Future9 Competencies .
• Note: While this is a leave replacement position hiring immediately, there is opportunity for a renewal of the contract in a founding 10 Grade Instructional Position for the 2026-2027 School Year.

The ideal candidate will have:

• Alignment with the educational philosophy and core beliefs that will undergird Launch High School: project-based and competency-based learning, and work-based/career-connected learning
  • Preferably with experience teaching and/or leading in a school that uses one or more of these elements
• Entrepreneurial
  • Comfortable with rapid growth and evolution (personal and of the school) within an innovative educational model
  • Skilled in starting and growing a new program as it is in development
  • A visionary that can construct, implement, and successfully reach a desired outcome, in true partnership with community
• Commitment to growing with and contributing to a powerful and collaborative school team.
• A teacher with
  • Experience and commitment to project based learning, interdisciplinary instruction, mastery grading, intervention and curriculum & assessment design
    • High school experience preferred
  • Unwavering commitment to Equity, Launch’s mission, and to the Crew model
  • Exceptional ability to demonstrate our Adult Culture Norms in our interactions and work
  • Exceptional ability to develop and maintain productive and collaborative relationships
• Bachelor’s degree (Master’s preferred)
• Teaching experience (in an urban setting preferred)
• Fluent in Spanish preferred
• Valid State Certification

Compensation: Highly competitive and commensurate with experience, along with a full benefits package.

Launch is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any individual or group for reasons of race, color, creed, sex, age, culture, national origin, marital status, sexual preference or mental or physical disability.