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2026-2027 Middle School (Integrated Co-Teaching)

Brooklyn, New York

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About the role

  • 2026-2027 Middle School Teacher (Integrated Co-Teaching) Are you interested in joining our team next year!
  • Tell us about yourself and your practice by submitting this general teaching application.
  • We feature a hands-on interdisciplinary education with a focus on real-world problem-solving and exploration of environmental, social, and economic sustainability.

Responsibilities

  • Our Key Design Elements
  • At BUGS we believe that all students are capable of succeeding when consistently given the appropriate support.

Requirements

  • We believe families are equal partners in this work and must have consistent communication.

Compensation

  • BUGS annual teaching salary is competitive with the New York City DOE salary matrix.

Benefits

  • BUGS i s at the forefront of sustainability education, diverse-by-design and community-based schools movements.
  • We are excited to welcome talented educators who are inspired by our mission and inclusion model, passionate about serving middle school aged adolescents, and eager to join a dynamic professional learning community.
  • Our Social Sustainability Vision Statement
  • Diversity, Equity and Inclusion are important, interdependent components of everyday life and are critical to the successful pursuit of our school vision and mission.
  • A Positive and Inclusive School Climate BUGS will create a safe, welcoming, and respectful school climate that supports equity and access for all learners.
  • A Professional Learning Community A learning-focused, collaborative culture will be based on trust, shared instructional leadership, and mutual accountability.
  • Daily common planning time and on-going professional development will enhance teachers' collective focus on student learning.
  • We support an inclusion model that focuses on Universal Design for Learning (UDL), which supports differentiated instruction and Specially Designed Instruction.

Company info

  • Brooklyn Urban Garden Charter School (BUGS), is a small, independent, progressive Middle School in South Slope/Windsor Terrace serving approximately 300 students of all abilities and backgrounds from across Brooklyn.
  • Our Middle School students (grades 6 to 8) are prepared for success in high school and to become critical thinkers, lifelong learners, and thoughtful designers of a more socially just and sustainable world.
  • If our mission aligns with yours, we hope you will submit your materials for consideration for the 2026 - 2027 school year.
  • At BUGS, we value and respect teachers as educators, professionals, and individuals.
  • As a growing faculty and community, we offer many opportunities for innovation, professional growth, and teacher leadership.
  • We feature a strong, supportive community of learners, an active parent-teacher organization, and a positive student and staff culture.
  • Educators are supported in using project-based methodology and designing on-going fieldwork to enrich the units of study.
  • At BUGS, we actively strive to repair the detrimental effects of racism, discrimination and systems of oppression that affect our students, families, staff, community and larger society.
  • We do this work personally and collectively through in-house professional development with our Inclusion and Culture Departments and in partnership with outside organizations.
  • We acknowledge that racism, discrimination and systems of oppression exist, and we are each a part of them and are affected by them - consciously and unconsciously.

Equal opportunity

  • Curriculum Night (September)
  • Family & Teacher Conferences (November)
  • Student-led Subject Area Conferences (March)
  • Other BUGS sponsored events and conferences, if/as needed

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